Stories
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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Lectures on female prostitution : its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy / by Ralph Wardlaw.
Date: 1842- Books
Free love paid love : expressions of affection in Mykonos.
Date: 2021- Books
Prostitution and society : a survey / Fernando Henriques ; chapter head designs by Rosamund Seymour.
Henriques, Fernando (Louis Fernando), 1916-Date: 1962-1968- Pictures
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Scull of a public woman, remarkable for the depravity of her morals, her great propensity to steal and cruellty.
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839Date: [1835?]Reference: 28077i- Books
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The country seat; or, summer evenings entertainments. Translated from the French. In two volumes. Volume the First. Containing, The History of Don Pedro D'Aguilar. Innocence Preserved. Arnold and Claramond. Remarkable Account of three Prostitutes. Melchu-Kina. The Self - Rival, and Constant Love.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]