Alan Norman Bold, "The Sexual dimension in literature", Vision Press, 1983, ISBN 0-389-20314-9, pp. 97–99. The various methods and artifices which young men use to entice or persuade young virgins, either to honest love and marriage, or to unlawful lust and uncleanness. Or rather,

You must be mad to speak like that!' she said in a voice that trembled with concentrated anger. 'You forget yourself. Be good enough to consider our friendship as suspended till you have recovered your senses and have suitably apologised for this intolerable insult. Meanwhile I will trouble you only to call a cab so that I may remove myself from your hateful presence!' And her eyes flashed in her wrathful indignation.Zatlin, Linda G. (Autumn–Winter 1990). "Beardsley Redresses Venus". Victorian Poetry. West Virginia University Press. 28 (3/4): 111–124. ISSN 0042-5206. JSTOR 40002293. Alice stared at me, silent with surprise and horror! My quiet determined manner staggered her. She paled when I referred to the past, and she flushed painfully as I indicated what her immediate future would be. After a slight pause I spoke again. We gazed at our reflection for a moment, our eyes meeting in the glass! Alice looked just lovely in her nakedness!

In his introduction to the Star edition of the book, Alexis Lykiard notes its mordant humour and opines that it "is that rarity – an entertaining, funny and sexy book". [7] Susan Griffin comments that when the hero forces the heroine to remove her clothing he gloats over not her beauty but her humiliation: "The virgin is punished by carnality". [8] It is then taken for granted sexual intercourse, even in the form of rape, will awaken any woman's sexual passions. [5] [9] Presently I murmured: 'Now, wifie! you'll like to learn something about me, eh?' Alice laughed merrily at the quaint conceit, then coloured furiously as she remembered that it would mean the introduction of her virgin hands to my virile organs! 'Sit up, wifie! dear, and give me your pretty hands,' I said. Donald C. Willis, Horror and science fiction films II, Scarecrow Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8108-1517-6, p. 161. a b Mendes, Peter (1993). Clandestine erotic fiction in English, 1800–1930: a bibliographical study. Scolar Press. ISBN 978-0-85967-919-0.a b Hinz, Evelyn J. (1985). For better or worse: attitudes toward marriage in literature. University of Manitoba. p.xii. ISBN 978-0-919475-26-7. As you please,' I replied quietly and calmly, 'let those laugh that win! I venture to say that within half an hour, you will not only be offering yourself to me absolutely and unconditionally, but will also be begging me to accept your surrender! Let us see!' Proverbs Chapter 30: Wisdom of God from the Bible! Answers to Life's Questions!" . Retrieved 9 January 2015.