Posted on 07/14/2020 9:30:21 AM PDT by C19fan
As many as one in five Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s during the late 18th century, according to a detailed new study on the sexually transmitted infection (STI) and its spread in the capital of the United Kingdom.
Researchers used data from hospital admissions and workhouse infirmaries to reach their figures, making allowances for duplicate records, private treatments, and the possibility of syphilis numbers getting mixed in with other diseases like gonorrhea or chlamydia. The findings show a much higher incidence in London than elsewhere in the country at the time other studies show 'the pox' was half as prevalent in the city of Chester, and up to 25 times less common in rural parts of England and Wales during the late 1700s.
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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 Follets 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 Whores 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 didnt 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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