LJRGUserName OP t1_ix613em wrote on November 21, 2022 at 12:36 AM

Reply to comment by CraftyRole4567 in Completely hooked by the writing style and research into "the Five" by Hallie Rubenhold. "There are two version of the events of 1887. One is very well known, the other is not." The five are the victims of Jack the Ripper and had always been labelled prostitutes, but they were not. by LJRGUserName

Transactional sex is discussed in the book, but it wasn't these women's main profession which the newspapers claimed at that time and still sticks. A woman without a man at that time really had very little and there were no social safety nets. I thought her research very thorough.

McJohn_WT_Net t1_ix6gdab wrote on November 21, 2022 at 2:37 AM

I can't remember where I saw this, but apparently the later Victorians offered the excuse that women who engaged in sex work were nymphomaniacs who just weren't getting the gold pipe at home. You know, anything rather than admit that their society was structured specifically to keep women desperate and dependent, and that that could be changed.