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Prostitution

Engaging in sexual relations in exchange for payment

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Prostitution

16 images from works
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman casting aside her virginity to become a prostitute. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A man tugged one way by a prostitute and the other way by a religious lady. Mezzotint, 1773.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.
  • Moll Hackabout dangles a watch and a poxed maid ("bunter") empties the contents of a jug, while Sir John Gonson, a magistrate, and a group of bailiffs enter the room to arrest her. Engraving after William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Prostitution : stop aux violences : action de santé communautaire en milieu prostitutionnel / ARAP Rubis.
  • A man puts his hand into his purse to pay for the services of a young woman, as another hands her a pair of earrings. Mezzotint by J. Faber after P. Mercier.
  • Two young women chasing and sweeping bird figures with mens' heads out of a door, encouraged by two old men in religious habits. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

Works from the collections

3,157 works

    • Ephemera

    Naughty schoolgirl : needs to be taken in hand : open late Mayfair.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    "New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

    | Date: [2001]
    • Ephemera

    Little Miss Madam : 1 min from Baker Street.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    A touch of asian magic : busty masseuse.

    | Date: [1991]
    • Ephemera

    Genuine busty 17 yr. old school girl loves to be punished!!.

    | Date: [1991]

Related topics

Sex
Prostitutes
London
Sadomasochism
Corporal punishment
Sexual dominance and submission
Baker Street (London, England)
Blondes
Bondage (Sexual behavior)
Breast

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