>>155582
Going further back, the british "Social Purity Movement" was the organizations which inspired american proto feminists to do the same.

Quotede from wikipedia:

>Social purity as a movement took roots in the mid 1800s in England and was prominently led by an evangelical woman Jane Ellice Hopkins

>Her deep dedication to the church not only gave her helpful connections in the spreading of this movement in Europe, but also gave her a characteristic drive and passion for this work. She was able to make changes in very practical ways, such as raising the legal age of consent for women to 16, and in individual moral ways, such as asking "good" Christian men to pledge themselves to respecting women and dismantling hypocrisy in sexual standards

>Her work set a precedence for what was to be done in the United States.

Female autonomy was not popular during this time, the Social Purity movement became bedfellows with christian fundamentalists of the day by essentially claiming that the age of consent must be raised in england in order to protect young girls from extra-marital sin, Thus convincing christian men to fall for what was essentially modern feminist doctrine proposed in a palatable way.