Quoted By:
Lady Blanche Fotheringay-Smythe
-My friends, ladies and gentlemen, and most distinguished guests: since the establishment of our Society For The Suppression Of Vice, we have sought to rectify the propagation of obscenity and immorality amongst the most vulnerable denizens of our City, particularly amongst the young, to prevent the pollution of susceptible minds by the corruption of vile and criminal literature. Since the advent of photography, and now the shameless circulation of productions of optical theatre, we have grappled with this great evil - dare I say it! - the abominable circulation and reproduction of the unclothed human form, of both sexes. To prosecute the law against these perpetrators of prurience has required the utmost in prudence and perseverance on our part. But I stand before you here today with a solution: the solution is shame!
In this land there are quite simply too many houses, but not enough Charity. The idle individual, dwelling upon their own means within the privacy of their independent abode, falls naturally to the inclination of the most depraved and miscreant manifestations of the sensual appetite. They begin to... explore themselves, in a wicked and unspeakable manner. What is needed is a means of surveillance, vigilance against the weakness of the flesh. Therefore that which I propose, Ladies and Gentlemen, is to abolish houses. Make the weak-willed live together! By means of the natural enforcement of shame, none who reside together will dare to parade their reprehensible perversions before their counterparts. Lust will be transformed to fellowship. Friends - let us join together; abolish houses, condemn the licentious, embrace modesty, and restore decency and trust to society!
>Applaud enthusiastically
>Applaud politely
>Applaud half-heartedly
>Just one single sarcastic clap, like an open palm, applied to the face
>Heckle Lady Blanche: Wouldn't co-living just lead to orgies? NAKED WORKHOUSE ORGY!!! (Some elderly and infirm pensioners in the workhouse exercise yard outside look up eagerly)
>I am just here for the seance, where is it?
>I would like to donate to this noble cause. There are far too many houses in the slum district, Cheapside and the Rookeries. We should demolish some of them. Maybe we can gentrify the district afterwards
>I would like to join this BITCH society please.
>I would like to join your Society For Suppression Of Vice please. I have never looked at any pornography; in truth, I do not know what that word even means.
>Examine the crowd to see if you recognise any guests
>Maybe you could slip away whilst this crowd is distracted, and look around the workhouse? Those Orphanage records, for instance...
>Something else?
