1725? RESPONSE TO MANDEVILLE'S DEFENCE OF THE PUBLIC STEWS 026. DISSERTATION. A dissertation on whoring. London. Printed for J. Cooper. n.d. [1725?] [2],32,25-56p. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards. A very nice copy. Not in ESTC. A re-issue with cancel title of A conference upon whoring, 1725, which has the same odd pagination. (L; CaOHM, CtY-BR, CSt only in ESTC) The present issue is unrecorded. A pamphlet against prostitution inspired by Mandeville's Modest Defence of the Publick Stews or an Essay upon Whoring, 1724. The author describes a gentleman who, in walking from Westminster to the house in which. he was staying was approached numerous times by prostitutes: "I very think the Wenches offer'd, by Elbows and Jostles, to pick me up 20 Times." He comments "Separate a Woman from Modesty, she becomes quite another Creature than God made her. Her strength lies in her Virtue, Purity, Chastity; without these, she is a Monster and Dunghill, not to be endured without Charity and Compassion, in Order to be reclaim'd: for no Mortal can love Filth, any more than he can eat it. A plying Prostitute is an abandon'd Wretch, a walking common-whore, a Light-house to the Wise,. and Ignis fatuus to Fools. To be seduced by such, is like going gradually and deliberately into a Pest-house; or bartering our reason for a Distemper."