anachronism

[Simon Wood]

Hey, no need to be ashamed. I once made an unforgettable visit to a certain house in Istanbul with a fantastic view across the Bosphorous of Uskudur. Not that I'd gone there for the view, mind you.

[DVV]

Thanks Simon!
I usually work in bars in summer... That year, as usual, my friends asked me where I was... When I got tired to lie, I said: ok, I'm working with Nadia...!
Some of them reminds me that job, at times...


Amitiés,
David

[DaveMc]

Mankind seems to enjoy having at one another en masse. To believe someone in 1888 could not remove a kidney for example, is to ignore the fact that for more than 300 years at that time standing Armies had been training men in just such things as a result of the species wide penchant for warfare. Dave

Hi Dave,

Soldiers aren't trained to remove organs.
They're trained to stab through them.

[protohistorian]

Here is a decent 100,000 ft viwe of the subject. Dave http://www.answers.com/topic/medicine-military

[protohistorian]

and of course money is one also

so here is an awesome converter

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/default0.asp#mid

and some historical reference on rates of pay

http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/Datafilelist.htm#Northwest

Dave

[doris]

In France, brothels are forbidden and I personally know none.
Since I've often lived in Toulon, which is a big port, I know some prostitutes.
They are many, and their business is quick affair, mostly in car, and I'm sure most of them, if not all, refuse to kiss a client.
By the way, I don't think many clients ask them a kiss...
Now, if you go with an expensive escort, and spend a whole night, etc, it's something else.

Amitiés,
David

Legally it is a bit more complicated in England.
A woman selling herself isn't against the law (quite rightly so, or otherwise ladies who allow themselves to be bedded in return for a nice dinner would be liable to prosecution!)

But, 'soliciting' is against the law.

WIth regards to brothels, there are many in the UK. (I have learned there are 2 in my tiny town, I found them online..ah the wonders of the interenet) And running a brothel is illegal, however it is jolly difficult to prove that offense, as if a masseur gives her client a few extras, who can say that she 'solicited' such an ocourance?

It would seem that most UK cat-houses get prosecuted for disturbing neighbours and health and safety transgressions for a massage parlour.

And please, for the love of god, believe me when I say that all this dallying with hookers has been ripper research.

doris

[protohistorian]

language

While we may speak roughly the same language, the usage varies widely and can be very anachronistic. Dave

[Roy Corduroy]

Good afternoon Dave,

Anachronism - a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present

Anachronism - something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.

Persuant to this idea, syphilis is an anachronism. Something which was quite common in London in our period of study, but not much known today.

Syphilis was contracted through sexual contact, often with prostitutes. The disease has physical and mental effects on the human body. Picture a man of that day and age who, after consorting with prostitutes, became infected with syphilis. This man might get angry, and take out his revenge on the most vulnerable of the prostitute class, the unfortunates of Whitechapel.

Today, after exposure to many real-life cases of serial killers of a sadosexual bent, we would find the concept of Jack the Ripper being a syphilitic revenge killer to be a quaint concept indeed. An anachronism.

Roy

[protohistorian]

agreed

Nice one Roy!