Portal:Prostitution/DYK/12


 * ... that Danish women's rights activist Astrid Stampe Feddersen (pictured) took part in the fight against prostitution and fought for greater equality between men and women, including unmarried women?
 * ... that Andrés L. Mateo novel, La balada de Alfonsina Bairán, is set in a brothel during the Rafael Trujillo regime?
 * ...that, according to the martyrology, the early 4th century Christian martyr Aedesius of Alexandria was tortured and drowned for striking a judge who had been forcing consecrated virgins to work in brothels?
 * ... that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions, theaters, and prostitution?