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Seduction, Prostitution, Bastardy, and Child Abandonment in Georgian London

Georgian London was the epicenter of urban pleasure culture. Harlots leveraged their assets, rakes indulged in licentious sex, and brothels, molly-houses, taverns and bawdy houses were scattered all over the city. Behind all this reckless abandon lay a milieu of misery. Between 1756 and 1760, the Foundling Hospital of London Read more…

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Locked Up and Poxxed: THE Venereal Disease and Women who Sold Sex in the Victorian British Empire

Have you been tested? Averill and Elizabeth take a look at the British imperial policy of blaming–and locking up–women for outbreaks of syphilis. Transcript for Locked Up and Poxxed: THE Venereal Disease and Women who Sold Sex in the Victorian British Empire Written by Averill Earls, PhD Starring Elizabeth Garner Read more…

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