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Did you know?

These are the different sets of Did You Know facts which appear on Portal:Prostitution.


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Dorsey's bordello
Dorsey's bordello



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A Harlot's Progress
A Harlot's Progress



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The tavern when it was first built in the 1640s
The tavern when it was first built in the 1640s
  • ... that the Dog and Duck (pictured) lost its licence after becoming "a house in which gangs of both whores and rogues were constantly associated"?
  • ... that Gertrude Guillaume-Schack founded the German Cultural Association in 1880 to fight state-regulated prostitution?
  • ... that the U.S. Travel Act prohibits interstate or foreign travel to promote, manage or commit extortion, bribery, prostitution and other crimes?
  • ... that the children of Vietnamese prostitutes and American servicemembers from the Vietnam War were often forced into prostitution themselves?



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The Dumas Brothel in September 2000
The Dumas Brothel in September 2000



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Dorothy's fully preserved bathroom, note the double-wide bathtub
Dorothy's fully preserved bathroom, note the double-wide bathtub



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The Silver Cross Tavern
The Silver Cross Tavern



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Manor House, 21 Soho Square
Manor House, 21 Soho Square



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The Medieval Merchant's house, Southampton
The Medieval Merchant's house, Southampton



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A white calf in Rossetti's painting Found
A white calf in Rossetti's painting Found



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A party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes
A party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes



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Astrid Stampe Feddersen
Astrid Stampe Feddersen



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