The Dumas Brothel.

The Dumas Brothel was a bordello in Butte, Montana. The brothel was founded by French Canadian brothers Joseph and Arthur Nadeau in 1890 and named after the nominal owner, Delia Nadeau, née Dumas, who was Joseph's wife. It grew considerably through the years, with the miners employed by the city's copper mines often patronizing the establishment. After several changes of the "madams" and continuing pressure from authorities, the brothel closed in 1982, described as "a rare, intact commentary on social history". At the time of its closure, it was the longest operating brothel in the United States, having operated years after prostitution was made illegal. After closing, the brothel changed hands several times, eventually becoming a tourist attraction owned and managed by a series of Butte residents. (read more ...)

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A scan of the first page of the notes from the interrogation of John/Eleanor Rykener at The Guildhall, London in December 1394 – January 1395.

John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of his life come from interrogation made by the mayor of London. Rykener was questioned on two offences: prostitution and sodomy. Prostitutes were not usually arrested in London during this period, while sodomy was an offence against morality rather than common law, and so pursued in ecclesiastical courts. There is no evidence that Rykener was prosecuted for either crime. Rykener said that he was introduced to sexual contact with men by Elizabeth Brouderer, a London embroideress who dressed him as a woman and may have acted as his procurer. (read more ...)

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  • 1942: Prostitution in Switzerland became regulated with the introduction of a new Criminal Code.
  • 1999: Sweden's Kvinnofrid law, which criminalised the buying of sex, came into force.
  • 2009: Norway becomes the second country to adopt the Swedish model of prostitution which criminalises the buying of sex.
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  • 1916: Birth of Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston), an American prostitute, murderer and the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair.
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  • 1929: Death of Mattie Silks, a prostitute and leading madam in the late 19th century American West.
  • 1951: Death of Sylvia Clevenger, an American prostitute and a minor associate of the John Dillinger gang.
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  • 1888: Death of Maggie Hall, a Dublin born prostitute and brothel madam in Murray, Idaho. She is known in local lore as a "Prostitute with a heart of gold" and the "Patron Saint of Murray".

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