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McJohn_WT_Net t1_ix6gdab wrote

Reply to comment by LJRGUserName 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

I can't remember where I saw this, but apparently the later Victorians offered the excuse that women who engaged in sex work were nymphomaniacs who just weren't getting the gold pipe at home. You know, anything rather than admit that their society was structured specifically to keep women desperate and dependent, and that that could be changed.

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