Episode 156: Beggars, Cheats and Thieves
The History of English Podcast
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Prostitution in Brothels
The term doxy was sometimes used more generally to refer to any female companion of a thief. And it could also be used to mean a prostitute. Prostitution itself was known as sacking. In the vicinity of london, it was mostly found across the river from the main part of the city in southwark. That was really the main brothel district of london. Many of them were owned by the same men who built the first free standing theatres there.
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