My dear Marie, I was delighted to receive your letter and to hear that you are now settled in Paris, and engaged in a business which provides so much interest and excitement. So you intend to meet one of the great requirements of the day and to provide the public of Europe with “naughty photographs” of little girls, and with this end in view you ask my advice. Well, Marie dear, you are welcome to all I can tell you, for as children we exchanged love for love pretty freely and since then – not so many years ago – I have learnt more about their secret practices than you and I had taught each other. The photographs you sent me of the Fillette Serie are charming, but are, I understand, to be looked on as useful for artistic purposes only and are therefore somewhat tame in treatment; but as you say there is no doubt a great and increasing desire among men to arouse and share their pleasures with little girls from ten to fifteen years of age, I think you would find it a great advantage to your business if your stock of photographs was increased and contained subjects more suggestive of the secret pleasures which little girls enjoy alone, and with other children, about the same age as themselves. With this object in view I think it a mistake to show the children in an entirely nude state, for example black or dark coloured stockings always seem to improve the curves of the legs, and it is often the case that a complete disarrangement of the clothes so as to expose to the full extent that part of the child's body from which she desires and gives most pleasure, will make the best picture.
Again from my experience, it is a mistake to place more than two little girls in the same group, for when they gratify their passions, as they often do, they rather do so alone or with the assistance of one friend; and in your new photographs if two children are together, one should be nude, or nearly so, while the scanty garments of the second little girl should show that little modesty exists between the friends. I may have already told you, Marie, that in even best girls' schools the present system is only to allow two children to occupy one room, and usually they are in one bed. Among the other girls the elder is called the husband and the younger the wife, their respective ages being perhaps twelve and fourteen years. This system, of course, encourages private intercourse between the children of the most free and passionate description, and the reproduction of such scenes would embody a most charming series of photographs. Your great difficulty would be in finding a photographer who understands sufficiently the refined form of intense pleasure existing in very young girls to bring the idea properly out in a photograph, for such groups treated to perfection would require all the sympathetic feelings of a true artist. I have the charming photograph which you sent me of a young girl showing much that is desired, but the effect is spoilt by the left leg being pushed forward. Had the leg been a little apart it would have shown her young charms to greater advantage, and would have suggested that they were more ready of access than with the legs held closely together. In many of the so called “Erotic photographs” there is a coarseness of treatment which rather disgusts than excites the passions, but there is no reason why this should be so. Fat women with a profusion of hair on their lower parts, and with drawers on, do not make a pretty picture, but there are few more delightful things on the earth than to see two little girls satisfying their own and each other's desires with their fingers or perhaps their lips and tongues, or a pretty grown and well made woman preparing her little sister for the advances of a lover of the opposite sex. But, however, if many little schoolgirls give themselves up to the excitement of virgin pleasure in private, they are often – indeed nearly always – shy about showing their naked charms to men. This modest feeling is often overcome by showing to child nude pictures of girls of her own age, or what is better still by fixing the photograph of a naked girl to the photograph of the head of the child herself, so as to make it appear as if she had been photographed while nude. This effect might be carried still further, and by photographic methods already in use, a single photograph could be produced from the picture of the little girl showing her to be not only nude, but in such a position that her virgin charms were fully exposed. If it were known that by sending you a photograph of a young girl, and by selecting from your stock a naked subject of suitable age and figure that could be applied to her face, there would be a great demand for pictures of this kind.
And again photographs of the man could be reproduced with that of the girl in such position that her shyness would be at once overcome, and even for the sake of secrecy alone she dare no longer refuse to gratify his desires. But the actual seduction of very little girls is cruel and in every way objectionable, and is quite an unnecessary action on her lover's part. Very few children are strong enough to bear the pain and shock of seduction till they are well over fourteen years of age. I know, as you do, Marie, from our own experience, that it is common enough for men to ravish little maidens by force, who are no more than twelve or thirteen years old; but if these children had been allowed to remain in a state of virginity, they would, with a little help and practice, have proved much more delightful in the arms of their lovers. Hardly any little girl, after her first modesty has been overcome, and her passions have been aroused to their full extent by the fingers and tongue of her lover, will refuse to use her lips in such a way that she not only satisfies but exhausts – as no woman could do – his burning desires. It is true that the first time, she may shrink from the flow into her mouth, which her lips and tongue have drawn from her lover, but afterwards she will cease to have any repugnance to the action, for she will share the joy she is proud of being able to excite at so young an age. Little girls like having grown-up lovers and think they are almost women if they are able to share and satisfy their most intense passions and this a pretty child can always do if she will but try. There is no doubt that among little schoolgirls from eleven to fifteen years of age there is a great amount of secret indulgence. Healthy exercises have made them capable of feeling the passions of love at an early stage of their lives and often during their play hours in the spring and summer time a little shortskirted maiden of twelve years will be seized with strong sensual desires, and blushing deeply at her own naughty thoughts will wander away to her own room. There she will lie on her bed or couch and with knees bent and legs thrown wide apart she will, with the delicate touch of her pointed finger, produce a whole world of passion and love between the quivering lips of virgin charms. Or perhaps two child-girl friends will wander away together to some quiet wood or dell where they know they will be safe, and there indulge in the fullness of each other's love, talking and longing for the day when their first lovers will claim possession of their naked limbs. Ah! Marie, would not pictures such as these be delightful to show to a wavering and timid little novice in the art of love? And is there any wonder that men of refinement and feeling seek above all things the mutual indulgence of sensual passion between themselves and pretty child-girls? Surely not! For is not the naked form of a healthy well grown girl of twelve or thirteen years with a rich profusion of golden-brown hair falling about her shoulders to her waist, with little rounded breasts just rising from her sides as childhood advances to girlhood, crowned with little rosy teats which are ever sweet to kiss and suck, and there her little virgin slit just peeping coyly out between her white and rounded legs as if shyly seeking to learn the pleasures of the world, is not that a picture for any man's desire? Adieu, Marie, but I can tell you more of child-love, if you wish to know it from your old child-love. Phyllis.