What makes a girl unmarriageable?

Posts from This Journal “prostitution” Tag

• "She is guaranteed a virgin, never betrothed..." (1871)

  Source: Wellcome Collection.

• Finding Russian geisha in Tokyo, in 1925

  A flash of jewel-slippered feet; a cloud of streaming chestnut hair; gay western laughter. The wanderer turns, bewildered by the sudden sight.…

• Men carrying concubines in Shanghai brothel district (c. 1905)

  Brothel servants are photographed carrying girls along Baoshan Jie (宝善街), the location of many second-tier ( yao'er) brothels, which corresponds…