Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness"
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
🌈Prostitution🌈
The stories of early New Orleans are a good example of this. Men were lonely and wanted wives. They wrote letters to the church back home. The church provided prostitutes and other women of ill repute by the boat load.
Do you have a link or reference for that last part? Never heard of this.
I may have mixed up the church and the French government. Or the local tour guides’ accounts may conflict with what I’m finding online.
I’ll see what I can dig up. It was mentioned at this museum I went to during my last trip there.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The stories of early New Orleans are a good example of this. Men were lonely and wanted wives. They wrote letters to the church back home. The church provided prostitutes and other women of ill repute by the boat load.
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you have a link or reference for that last part? Never heard of this.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I may have mixed up the church and the French government. Or the local tour guides’ accounts may conflict with what I’m finding online.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’ll see what I can dig up. It was mentioned at this museum I went to during my last trip there.