{"id":4028,"date":"2012-05-07T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2012-05-07T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T12:24:40","slug":"prostitution-in-18th-century-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/prostitution-in-18th-century-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostitution In 18th Century London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/050712_1222_Prostitutio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One in five women in England in the 1700s were prostitutes reports Zoe Brennan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of prostitutes in London at the time is estimated to be 63,000.<\/li>\n<li>Women engaged in prostitution because the pay was 80 times higher than the alternative of living a life of drudgery as a housemaid.<\/li>\n<li>Overall the prostitution industry was worth about 1.5 billion inflation adjusted pounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the horrific practices that were used to trap women into prostitution, 17<sup>th<\/sup> century condoms, how prostitutes were the celebrities of their times, and the prevalence of venereal diseases, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-1219347\/Sin-city-Georgian-London-evokes-images-elegance-fine-art--truth-women-prostitutes.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-1219347\/Sin-city-Georgian-London-evokes-images-elegance-fine-art--truth-women-prostitutes.html\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in five women in England in the 1700s were prostitutes reports Zoe Brennan: The number of prostitutes in London at the time is estimated to be 63,000. Women engaged in prostitution because the pay was 80 times higher than the alternative of living a life of drudgery as a housemaid. Overall the prostitution industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/050712_1222_Prostitutio1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}