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LD50_irony t1_ix658k1 wrote

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

Is the other end of the spectrum of transactional sex married women, or is there another word for that?

Frankly, in that time period it seems like it was transactional sex all the way up the ladder, although the folks at the top dressed it up with legalities.

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CraftyRole4567 t1_ix851fo wrote

Well that’s a can of worms – the hardcore feminists of the 1960s famously said that marriage is just prostitution with a ring!

Historians would say that it’s important to understand that companionate marriage (as we call it) is very much a 19th/20th century ideal. Most marriages have been transactional marriages, and many still are – there’s not necessarily anything wrong with that, and it doesn’t preclude seeing marriage as a type of partnership as well. Looking at our presidents, we could say the Obamas appear to have a companionate marriage, the Trumps appear to have a transactional one ;)

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