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Attitudes towards sex work hardened at the end of the 18th century, with many viewing prostitutes as indecent and immoral, [64] and it was in this atmosphere that Harris's List met its demise. Books such as the Wandering Whore and Edmund Curll 's Venus in the Cloyster (1728) are often mentioned alongside Harris's as examples of erotic literature.
Prostitutes conducting business in Southwark were often referred to as "Winchester Geese," a reference to the bishop of Winchester. [2] There is some debate about when the church began to regulate prostitution in Southwark. Some sources claim this began in the early 15th century, with the bishop backdating his order to give it more legitimacy. [4]
Many of the women who posed in 19th- and early-20th-century vintage erotica were prostitutes. The most famous were the New Orleans women who posed for E. J. Bellocq. In the 19th century legalized prostitution became a public controversy as France and then the United Kingdom passed the Contagious Diseases Acts. This legislation mandated pelvic ...
Huang Cuifeng (Michelle Reis), a Sing-song girl by Flowers of Shanghai (China),from novel The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing; Blanche Simmons (Louise Jameson), Dorothy Bennett (Veronica Roberts) and Maggie Thorpe (Lizzie Mickery) in Tenko are all to some degree prostitutes. Maggie is intended to be a replacement for Blanche as by ...
Constantia Jones was a prostitute in 18th-century London who was sentenced to hang for stealing from one of her clients. Betty Careless was a notorious prostitute and later bagnio-owner in 18th-century London. Dora Noyce was an Edinburgh brothel-keeper in the mid-20th century. Cynthia Payne was a brothel-keeper in Streatham, London.
1981 ledger listing various clients of a Magdalene laundry. In the late 18th century, the term "fallen women" primarily referred to sex workers, [11] but by the end of the 19th century, Magdalene laundries were filled with many different kinds of women, including girls who were "not prostitutes at all," but rather "seduced women."
The Broadway plays, musicals, and movies based upon the book Gigi are about a young Parisian girl who is being trained to be a courtesan by her great-aunt, a retired career courtesan herself. Ulla Winblad, in the famous 18th-century poems of Carl Michael Bellman. Vasantasena, a nagarvadhu in the ancient Indian Sanskrit play Mṛcchakatika by ...
Marguerite Gourdan, née Marguerite Alexandrine Ernestine Stock (c. 1730 in Béziers – 28 September 1783 in Paris) was a French brothel owner and procurer in 18th-century Paris. Her brothel was the most exclusive in Paris during that age, and Gourdan was arguably the most famous of her profession.