Teaching: The Second Oldest Profession?

This cartoon from the January 1959 issue of Scandolls magazine is disturbingly up to date and modern in its sentiments. Apparently low teacher pay has always been with us:

The caption reads:

Prostitution is more a matter of economics than morals. If we are going to keep our teachers off the streets — we’ll have to start paying them!

There’s an artist signature on the cartoon but I can’t quite make it out.

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Inside A Well-Regulated Brothel

There’s a lengthy and interesting feature in Business Insider about a Nevada brothel called Sheri’s Ranch. It struck me that the reporter approached the story with an open mind, and it’s free of most of the sex-negativity we’ve come to expect from this kind of story:

Sheri’s Ranch is a compelling demonstration that legalized and well-regulated prostitution can be safe, functional, and profitable.

There’s an ineffable welcoming quality to Sheri’s Ranch. There is no shame, no fear, no judgment to be found anywhere near the place. There’s no illusion to maintain – you’ve arrived, hat in hand, to pay for sex. Not only do the ladies know this, but they’re glad you’re here. Where America’s sexual culture seems far more repressed than that of other countries, Sheri’s turns this paradigm on its ear and welcomes you to indulge in (mostly) whatever it is you want. Their business depends on it.

Fair warning: as you may not know unless you are keeping up with current trends in sex-worker activism, there’s a recent push to stigmatize the use of the word “prostitute” and replace it with “sex worker”. Although prostitute was until recently the polite word used in civilized discourse to replace derogatory terms like “whore” and “hooker” and “street walker”, sex worker advocates and activists now consider “prostitute” to be derogatory as well. This nascent development has not yet been fully communicated to the mainstream, and the reporter of this story is someone who clearly has not yet received this particular memo. I think it’s obvious upon reading that the reporter is using “prostitute” in a descriptive manner with no derogation intended, but those of you who find such usage offensive may be offended by this story nonetheless.

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Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

Just one of dozens of interesting passages in an 1858 letter from a prostitute to The Times. This was part of a public discussion — in which Charles Dickens was involved — on prostitution and the “rescue” of “fallen women”:

I speak of others as well as for myself, for the very great majority, nearly all the real undisguised prostitutes in London, spring from my class, and are made by and under pretty much such conditions of life as I have narrated, and particularly by untutored and unrestrained intercourse of the sexes in early life. We come from the dregs of society, as our so-called betters term it. What business has society to have dregs–such dregs as we? You railers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, you the pious, the moral, the respectable, as you call yourselves, who stand on your smooth and pleasant side of the great gulf you have dug and keep between yourselves and the dregs, why don’t you bridge it over, or fill it up, and by some humane and generous process absorb us into your leavened mass, until we become interpenetrated with goodness like yourselves? What have we to be ashamed of, we who do not know what shame is — the shame you mean?

Found via a Susie Bright tweet — thanks!

Price List

I don’t care how blonde the Russian girl is … looking at this price list, I’m convinced the better deal is two Malay girls and a couple of bottles of good booze:

Found it on a tumblr.

Dressing Up To Give A Hand Job

These days, images of prostitution seem to be mostly of spandex-clad hookers crouching behind dumpsters in the dark to give furtive street blowjobs. It was not always thus, especially when houses of prostitution still flourished in America:

Of course by the standards then prevailing, her outfit for this posed porn photo is probably the tawdry spandex tube top of its era. But still.

Via Vintage Lust.

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Here Comes Johnny With His Pecker In His Hand

Here’s an old painting of an even older sort of transaction:

The image comes from here, with the breathless caption: “A 19th century painting crudely depicts the power of wealth and dominion.” Me, I see more dominion in that outstretched palm than I do in the guy with his pecker out.

2013 Update: fixed the broken link and upsized the tiny art that was here.

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