Tag: Prostitution

• Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Flowing at the Brothel

  Washington’s Civil War madame could keep a secret  Piper-Heidsieck

  Adrienne Morris

  August 27, 2014

  Beautiful Images, inspirational, Intoxication, United States History

  champagne, Civil War, Life, money, Piper-Heidsieck, Prostitution, sex, uniforms

• “The men looked like the thieves and the women looked like the whores that many of them were.” Sidney George Fisher, visitor to a Saratoga Hotel 1867

  Oh, those polite and pure Victorians . . . not so fast. Check out the archeological finds exposing the daily life of a 19th century Boston prostitute   and one way in which gentleman found the best whores is New York (at the newsstand). Did they like them smart or sporty? For further study: City of…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 6, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, Evil Men, History, The Unknowable Past, Quotes

  19th century, Art, Books, Gilded Age, morality, Prostitution, sex, Victorians, Writers