...that 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury (pictured) was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
...that Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
...that Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
...that 18th century brothel-keeper Jane Douglas (pictured, bottom window, praying) sold condoms in silken bags to her customers?
...that madame Anna Wilson, the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska, bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death?
...that sexual relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre-revolutionary rural Russia?

April - July 2007