Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During most of the 19th century, Continental procurers found more prospects in Britain than they could place. As the Industrial Revolution developed, the country's population exploded (from 10 million in 1800 to more than 20 million in 1850) and its living conditions collapsed. Anything, even a brothel, seemed better to thousands of working girls than a life in the "dark Satanic Mills" and unspeakable "padding kens" (poor lodging houses) of the urban slums...
...other brothel owners warily shut down to avoid arrest, the girls drifted off to their homes in the suburbs, where few of their neighbors know what work they do in De Walletjes. Shrugged one: "They will never get rid of us," and another added the dark threat always heard at such times: "Women will be attacked on the street by our former clients. They simply need us." The public prosecutor insisted that he was closing down Amsterdam's greatest unadvertised tourist attraction for good. But Dutch cynics recalled three other civic attempts to clean up De Walletjes...