The Sexual History of London by Catharine Arnold

Author:Catharine Arnold
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

When a young man meets there with handsome fine-looking girls, well-dressed with genteel manners, he forgets the indecency of their appearance and the looseness and impropriety of their language and behaviour, if these do not attract him the more, and he gets interested and entangled with them, and is led astray; and this the more readily as he sees around him much older men of respectable appearance, without scruple talking and romping with them.36

This prostitute described a typical day in her life to the journalist Bracebridge Hemyng, Mayhew’s researcher, in the 1850s:

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