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Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Windmill and the Sex Trade
This is a really interesting time, I think, to be a woman. Women in particular are entering spaces that they hadn't entered before. Good time girls are women who could be seen as working in the sex trade. They might end up trading sex for a meal or an item or hotel. That is quite distinct from more organized forms of selling sex. All of the sexual politics, the nude tablos, the art at the Windmill Theatre, the Piccadilly nightclubs and dive bars, all of this is happening during a blackout. It's pitch black outside. There are bombers coming over in the Nazis that are trying to kill people. We see that even today in Crem
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