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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 06:55 PM Original message |
Didn't Victorian England have a huge amount of prostitutes? You know |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Jack the Ripper |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No - yes - there was a lot of bawdy stuff that came out from different |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. You nailed it |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. Victorian ENGLAND? Hell, Chicago whores had a directory! |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Yes - and it was matriarchal - which is why I like the discussion |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-05 09:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Making it matriarchal doesn't make it a good life for women. |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-05 11:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. didn't Boortz say Katrina poor and black should WORK as prostitutes?? |
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JJackFlash (541 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. They had to feed themselves |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Exactly. It was the norm all over the west. When there was no social |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-05 09:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Right, and a maid who displeased her employer or who became |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. sssssssssshhhhhh! You are not supposed to talk about |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Does divorce or ability to get a divorce save women from prostitution? |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 02:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. If we are going back to the victorian era I would say no. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. Unfortunately this is not a past problem. Poverty forces many a |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
8. John Fowles does some math on this in The French Lieutenant's Woman |
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3waygeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Not just in the Victorian era |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Oh - with soldiers or army bases - that gets the sex market going. |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. And the Victorians wrote some of the kinkiest pornography imaginable! |
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Monkey see Monkey Do (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. lol - that's what I was going to post! |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. The USA has some pretty kinky erotica & porn producers too - that |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 11:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I believe the English like bondage a bit more than we as a country do. |
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JJackFlash (541 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. I think prostitution should be legal |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. My family from that time |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-05 07:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. I think too access to health & being able to afford to pay for something |
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ArkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Intelligent, thoughtful and well written post. |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. They Did Indeed, Sir |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. No other reason than abject poverty and no hope. |
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Ms. Clio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-05 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
25. "Put a roof on England and it would be one great whorehouse" |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-03-05 01:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. The hero of the neocons. Benji. |
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