Harlots is the BBC's bawdiest drama ever: Series about London's 18th Century sex trade is inspired by a Georgian A to Z of Covent Garden courtesans

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 2, 2020 | Hallie Rubenhold

[C19fan]

Imagine a world where women were commodities, where teenage girls had their virginity auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Imagine a place where a pretty beggar could start her life on the street and end it on a country estate, married to a wealthy, titled man.

Imagine sex without contraception, where syphilis was rife and incurable, where you could scale the heights as a celebrated courtesan or die broken, diseased and starving.

[xp38]

Is this what they call classy porn?

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: Imagine a place where a pretty beggar could start her life on the street and end it on a country estate, married to a wealthy, titled man.

This is hollywood or England or many other places where actresses go yachting (prostitution) and or on end up on a producer or directors couch.
I have read enough stories about hollywood to know that many a nice girl on the screen did things behind the scenes to get the role that pays them a lot of money.
Read some of the exploits here: https://www.crazydaysandnights.net