🏚️🕯️ Victorian society preached morality, discipline, and respectability — while quietly relying on an entire hidden workforce to survive on the margins. For many women, brothel work was not scandal or glamour, but poverty, strict rules, dangerous conditions, and constant judgment from the very society that profited from their existence. Police oversight, medical inspections, and social stigma shaped lives that were closely controlled, rarely protected, and easily forgotten.
Tonight, close your eyes and step into the gas-lit streets of Victorian England, where survival came with rules, respectability was a luxury, and history preferred not to look too closely.
👉 Boring History For Sleep | Quiet truths, social hypocrisy, and lives history tried to erase. 💤
