Nothing much changed in 150 years

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Nor sure if this should go here or the O/T, anyway...
Found this in the anthology of diary entries I keep for bedtime reading!innocent!

From the diary of Arthur F Munby 7 December 1860 (only 20 years after photography was invented)

'Going into a shop to buy some photographs the shopman, who was also a photographer, brought out by the way of temptation various portraits of nude and semi-nude women which he himself had taken. I enquired what manner of women they were who were willing to have pictures of their naked bodies taken , and sold to strangers at 2 shillings each; of course, they are virtually prostitutes?

"NOT at all, Sir!" cries the worthy photographer, indignant: "this one" (holding up a stark naked figure) "is herself an artist and was a governess. No, No, they wouldn't do anything of that: a girl has no need to go onto the streets when she can earn five or six pounds a week by this sort of thing!

Nearly ?300 a year to be earned by simply sitting in a chair without any clothes on; no wonder such a trade is preferred to the hard and self accusing life of a prostitute! Nevertheless one would say on the whole that these delicate gradations of female modesty are somewhat inexplicable to the coarser masculine mind...'

I recall similar thoughts expressed on here from time to time !laugh!

Apparently, indexed to average earnings, ?300 would be about ?100,000 today.

[Gaslight]

I've seen your body at several UKAP events RGB and even at todays rate I reckon ?300 for the year is my top whack!!! !shocked! !wink!

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Hounds' teeth and Damn you, Gaslight for those disparaging remarks about my allure as a model ...... but I'll take the ?300 !hmmm!

[Gaslight]

Haha, yes I'm sure you will take the dosh young man....

I have personally seen many changes in the past 150 years.....but your hairstyle is very obviously not one of them Big Fella??!! !cool!

[planeterotica]

Well things do change over the years here is a post i made on the O/T a few years ago, and my hairstyle has changed the parting has got lower !wink!

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Have you been on the brake fluid and Toilet Duck again? !drink! !grin!

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I bought a second hand Health and Efficiency for half a crown in 1965. Spent ages trying to work out how women peed !confused!

[planeterotica]

rgb wrote:

> I bought a second hand Health and Efficiency for half a crown
> in 1965. Spent ages trying to work out how women peed
> !confused!
>
planeterotica wrote:

Im still trying to work that one out !laugh!