Portal:Human sexuality/Did you know/5


 * ...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