Posted on 07/14/2020 9:30:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Ben Franklin was a bit of a libertine, but a lot of his “exploits” was 18th Century bragging. Even Franklin had a Judeo-Christian mindset.
Remember the upper crust French had discovered the benefits of the blind gut of the sheep. I’m sure the man who “discovered” electricity with a kite had no problem discovering French sex secrets.
I just finished reading Follet’s new book in the Dark Ages in England. Though the book ended long before the 18th century they book touches on prostitution, sex, slavery and what they then called Whore’s Leprosy.
They used slave girls as young as 11 or 12 for prostitutes, who were housed at most every ale house and it was not just the under class who used them. As a matter of fact the under class didn’t often have money. Even the priests in this book used the slave girl prostitutes. They would raid other groups of people like the British raiding the Welsh and they would carry off the young girls and women for slaves, the younger the better.
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