Prostitution in Europe / by Abraham Flexner.

  • Abraham Flexner
Date:
1919
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Credit: Prostitution in Europe / by Abraham Flexner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fully guarded clientele sometimes exact as much as 100 francs! In the long run, whatever the women earn, they rarely have anything to show for it. The bordell- keeper plies them hard and then manages to keep them in her debt. Despite the fact that they may entertain anywhere from five to fifty guests in twenty- four hours, they do not own the clothes on their back, when they make up their mind to leave! Schneider calculates the minimum payment of a girl for bare living in the better bordells of Hamburg, Leipzig, and Vienna at 300 to 600 marks a month— an underestimate, as he himself subsequently avers. Seventy-five wretched creatures are harboured in the barracks of Helenenstrasse, Bremen, independently of each other; several of them figured out for me the amount they must earn merely to live; from which it appeared that 10,000 marks a year each barely sufficed. In the Roman brothels, the girls must average 10 to 12 men a night, in order to earn the high charges made for their keep; at Dresden, the bordell women are charged up with 100 marks a week for mere board and lodging. Among the com- mon prostitutes of Stockholm are found women who claim to earn—and to spend—sums ranging from 3,000 to 12,000 crowns annually. A careful study was made by Dr. Lindblad of 712 cases; the number of customers ran from less than one on the average daily to as high as 20 when business was brisk; assuming 225 working days per year, the women
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