By Lotte van de Pol
ISBN-10: 019921140X
ISBN-13: 9780199211401
Amsterdam was once, after London and Paris, the 3rd greatest urban in early glossy Europe, and used to be well known all through Europe for its common and visual prostitution. Delving deep right into a wide selection of resources, yet making specific use of the transcripts of hundreds of thousands of trials, The Burgher and the Whore reconstructs Amsterdam's whoredom intimately. the vibrant and interesting descriptions of the prostitutes, their bawds, their consumers, and the police shed new mild at the cultural, social, and monetary stipulations of the lives of negative girls in a seafaring society. Lotte van de Pol explores how the vice exchange used to be embedded in Amsterdam's society, economic climate, and judicial procedure, and the way laws and policing have been formed via misogynist attitudes in the direction of ladies and worry of God's wrath and venereal ailments in the direction of intercourse. the tale concentrates at the humans residing on the margins of a wealthy city, within which there has been a wide surplus of ladies, a lot of them terrible immigrants with little prospect of marriage. Many adjustments are seen within the a hundred and fifty years lower than scrutiny, together with the view of prostitution from immorality to exchange, and of prostitutes from whores and criminals to paupers. the result's a publication that may be learn because the historical past of the Dutch Golden Age from under.
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Streetwalkers were by that stage referred to either as street whores (straathoeren) or as cruising whores (kruishoeren), of the kind found on one of the cruising lanes (kruisbanen). From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century the Kalverstraat, leading off Dam Square, was one such cruising lane. prostitutes, brothels, and music houses 21 Having secured a client, a streetwalker would usually take him home. In Amsterdam there was little open air prostitution, certainly less than in The Hague, where the wooded parkland in the city centre (the Haagse Bos) was a natural pick-up spot.
Music was no longer played every evening, fewer prostitutes were present, and only a handful actually lived on the premises. The women could no longer afford to dress far above their station. The glamour was gone. Measures were taken to spread the risk and those in charge would look for a suitable front to disguise the real business, like Catrina Cahari’s tobacconist’s shop. An important side effect of all this was that tourists stayed away—or so it seems, since music houses rarely feature any longer in travel accounts.
20 Women and men as organizers The organization of prostitution was largely in the hands of women. Only 18 per cent of those prosecuted for brothel-keeping were men. More than half the women who ran bawdy-houses lived singly, whereas their male counterparts, generally the bosses of music houses, almost always had wives or partners who dealt directly with the prostitutes and controlled the money earned. 21 Pimps in the modern sense are seldom encountered in the Confession Books; it is telling that there was not even an unambiguous name for them.
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