Posted on 10/29/2018 5:49:45 AM PDT by C19fan
They worked in brothels frequented by troops serving on the front line in northern France, but their role has been virtually erased from the history books.
Thanks to a new Roundhouse art project, Cause and Effect, to mark the centenary of the end of the conflict, the wartime sex workers have been immortalised in a film with poet Hollie McNish.
McNish worked with historian Clare Makepeace from Birkbeck, University of London, to create War’s Whores, which details the “significant minority” of men paying for sex on the front line.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
According to Makepeace’s research, one in five of all hospital admissions in 1916 of British and dominion troops in France and Belgium were for a sexually transmitted infection.
When America joined the war in 1917, sexually transmitted infection rates soared above 190 cases per 1,000 American men at the French base ports, after soldiers in France invited their new ally to join them in the brothels.
There was a famous saying, "One night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury. This explains why
An infection of syphilis or gonorrhoea required a hospital stay of about 30 days for treatment, and so for many men this was an attractive option, rather than fighting. Syphilis was treated with injections of mercury, which usually did nothing to prevent the fatal progression of the disease years later.
The lefties seem obsessed with making prozzies into heroes.
Soldiers and prostitutes...who knew?
We'd be surprised to find congresscritters and prostitutes as well!
I’m confused about the great service provided. Spreading disease is now a great service?
I strongly suspect they ignore the fact that many if not most of these whores were forced/coerced into prostitution due to circumstances beyond their control.
Give us all your dough, boys!
Not much of a historian if she thought she was breaking new ground about camp followers, a staple of military campaigns across the recorded ages.
They ARE prostitutes.
......congresscritters and prostitutes as well!
Male or female
Good point!
He told me this:
"When we defeated the Japanese, we found that they had prostitutes to service their men; so we got them too. Some of those girls were nice looking."I do not think for a minute that he realized that they had been pressed into prostitution. He was a very good man, and I think he had assumed that it was all part of Japanese culture and that the women were Japanese and had volunteered for prostitution.
In high school, it didn't occur to me to question him or this experience. It was years later, when I learned how the Japanese had forced captured Korean, Chinese, and other women into prostitution that I began to understand.
I saw a program about that same topic last week on PBS. The 14 year-old girls were snatched off the street and forced to work in “comfort stations” during World War 2 in Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Maybe more but that was all they talked about. Sickening. Their lives were so screwed up. Outcasts, no one would marry them. Inability to have children due to the rapes at a young age.
The only surprise there is that it was a minority.
that last name is curious.
Imam defend the practice of slavery (women and children captured in jihad, spared of the sword) because if these survivors didn’t become slaves, they might become prostitutes or otherwise unable to provide for themselves.
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