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There's an entertaining and informative twitter account called @WhoresofYore.
The title is fairly self-explanatory. It's run by a woman called Kate Lister in Leeds. Highly recommended for those of you who are on twitter.

I only heard about it because there was a kerfuffle about it yesterday as the account was suspended by twitter, leading to howls of protest from her 54,000 loyal followers. The reason for the suspension was that the avatar featured a portrait of Nell Gwyn (the most well known of the many mistresses of King Charles II) painted circa 1670 by Sir Peter Lely - which showed her nipples! The avatar image was edited to cover up the offensive items, and the PC prudes who run twitter reinstated the account.

Here are the original painting

http://www.historicalportraits.com/ArtWorkImages/Lely Studio Gwynm.jpg

and the edited version

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/781983143381311488/LubcesDj.jpg


More pics from WhoresofYore coming soon...
 
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Classic nudes since the inception of photography (and painting) are often of whores because available and willing.

I've been slowly cooking a story about a real-life guy, an early Hollywood art director (nominated for the first Oscars), who included more than a few naked whores in classic pre-Code films. Of course many stage actresses were whores because no respectable woman would go on stage.

And there's a strong estimate that 10% of adult women in NYC in 1900 were prostitutes.
 
Hypoxia, that reminds me of the bit in the French Lieutenant's woman where Meryl Streep is reading out some statistics about the number of prostitutes in London in Victorian times (80,000). Jeremy Irons then does a little calculation and says that ""Outside of marriage, your Victorian gentleman could look forward to 2.4 fucks a week!"
 
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hadruprider said:
Hypoxia, that reminds me of the bit in the French Lieutenant's Woman where Meryl Streep is reading out some statistics about the number of prostitutes in London in Victorian times (80,000). Jeremy Irons then does a little calculation and says that ""Outside of marriage, your Victorian gentleman could look forward to 2.4 fucks a week!"
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80,000 would be a pretty lowball estimate. In industrialized countries then, with rural women pouring into the major cities without prospects of 'decent' employment, prostitution was the only available means of survival for a large percentage. And Victorian gentlemen "out on the town" would have a couple fucks (or tit-, thigh-, or blow-jobs) a night, not always from distinct whores. That Jeremy Irons statistic is pretty funny -- perfect for the movie.

To be sure, whoring isn't a solely human enterprise. Even female butterflies prostitute themselves for nectar. (I read that on the Net so it must be true.)
 
Charles Dickens famously used to go on long walks around the streets of London at night. The official explanation usually given for this is that it helped him get inspiration and characters for his novels.
But I doubt that was the only reason. It's pretty clear from some of his letters that he used prostitutes. There's one to a friend proposing a trip to Margate alluding to the opportunities there. I think I read that in Claire Tomalin's biography.
 
For the ladies of literotica?

In the interests of balance, here's a couple of historical pictures from @WhoresofYore that the ladies might enjoy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cth-TvIWEAARzZ1.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjTKiEWgAAAY53.jpg

The second one was posted as a caption competition. Responses included:
"Nigel, are you absolutely sure this is appropriate dress for a royal garden party?"
"I say, dear William, that was certainly the best blow job I've had in years. Take a bough!"
"Jim got a bit peckish waiting for the artists to finish."
 
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When the British overtook new York City during the American Revolutionary War, food was so scarce for so many people living there that it shot up by 800%. Naturally people had to eat and there was a ready way to do so as the reason the food shot up was because of the British Army occupying the city. It was only natural to please these men for cash and it is stated that as many as 25% of the American Woman there resorted to prostitution to get by.
 
Another interesting character, not a prostitute, but the first woman to pose nude in a silent movie was Czechoslovakian born Hedy Lamar...yes that actress of the 1930's and 1940's. She was married to a man who made weaponry and was friends with Hitler. Anyway she did the first nude (topless) movie, but it upset her husband so much he put her under house-arrest. She escaped and ended up going to the USA. Later she not only starred in some famous movies, during World War Two invented something known as "frequency hopping", where torpedo skipped frequencies so that they could hit their targets without being jammed. Today the same concept is used on your cell phone so every time you use it think of Hedy Lamar, the first porn star who was not only pretty, open-minded, but also very smart!

Here is a link to that 1933 movie. (29 minutes in the good part starts, at least for 1933 tastes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e41ZtIfoek&index=8&list=PLXnpEyuVelM9zWApS84Y_q8NZliMukfW7
 
I very much appreciate the vintage style, and it has guided me in my photography. I have tried to recreate the postcard aesthetic, sepia, body hair, and all.
 
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hadruprider said:
There's an entertaining and informative twitter account called @WhoresofYore.
The title is fairly self-explanatory. It's run by a woman called Kate Lister in Leeds. Highly recommended for those of you who are on twitter.

... The reason for the suspension was that the avatar featured a portrait of Nell Gwyn (the most well known of the many mistresses of King Charles II) painted circa 1670 by Sir Peter Lely - which showed her nipples! The avatar image was edited to cover up the offensive items, and the PC prudes who run twitter reinstated the account.

Here are the original painting

http://www.historicalportraits.com/ArtWorkImages/Lely Studio Gwynm.jpg

and the edited version

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/781983143381311488/LubcesDj.jpg
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Gad, have the Victorians returned to pester us? I'm not fan of pics of yawning vaginas, but covering her breast that way is the act of a true Philistine!
 
hadruprider said:
Charles Dickens famously used to go on long walks around the streets of London at night. The official explanation usually given for this is that it helped him get inspiration and characters for his novels. .... It's pretty clear from some of his letters that he used prostitutes. There's one to a friend proposing a trip to Margate alluding to the opportunities there. I think I read that in Claire Tomalin's biography.
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The sublime composer, Johannes Brahms, was a frequent patron of prostitutes. I consider it a good man's weakness!
 
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Another interesting character, not a prostitute, but the first woman to pose nude in a silent movie was Czechoslovakian born Hedy Lamar...
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She was brilliant but sorry, she wasn't the first filmed nude by a long shot. The first were before 1900. "The 7-minute 1899 film Le Coucher de la Mariée had Louise Willy performing a bathroom striptease." Peepshow nickelodeons "flourished from about 1905 to 1915." Hedy Lamar was of another generation. BTW her partner in inventing skip-frequency communications was Ballet Mechanique 'noise' composer George Antheil.
 
Not as old as these pics, but both my grandma and my wife's grandma (our Mom's Moms) were hookers and topless (sometimes nude) dancers back in the 1960's, 1970's, and into the 1980's. They worked the strip outside of a military base. Our Mom's have no idea who their Dads were.
 
Skittles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Walters

She had the most capacious heart I know and must be the only whore in history to retain her heart intact. – Henry Labouchere

Of all the grandes horizontals of the 19th century the one I feel I can understand the most, and for whom I have the greatest affinity, is Catherine Walters. While other courtesans went through money like water, she was relatively thrifty; while others affected gaudy displays of jewelry and ostentatious wealth, she was known for her style and taste; while others made spectacles of themselves, she always behaved naturally; while others extracted all they could from their clients, her fairness earned her a number of lifetime incomes; while others exposed their clients in tell-all memoirs later in life, her discretion was legendary. And while others used exotic stage names or titles that made them sound more like institutions than women, Catherine was simply “Skittles”, a nickname derived from her first job: setting up pins in a Liverpool bowling alley named the Black Jack Tavern.


https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/catherine-walters-by-pierre-petit.jpg

https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/skittles/
 
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