This 1849 guidebook was a Yelp for whorehouses

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Is he upset because Pink Flamingos didn’t kick off a genre?

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Probably… or not maybe. I think he has an interesting relationship with success.

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Indeed.

they will at any time amuse you with a fine tune on the piano,

That is, um, not exactly what I am here for.

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True, but I was specifically referring to a scene in PF which arguably featured chicken fucking (sort of).

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Perhaps a euphemism? :wink:

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Now, if they could play the organ…

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Strange to not see a link

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Let me tell you it isn’t cheap to buy enough cocaine to get a 1200 pound thoroughbred buzzed.

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Again, as requested, don’t kink shame.

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Now, remember. No kink-shaming.

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I’m still trying to get my head around how this guidebook relates to what became the official slogan of the city:

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I have a similar publication from my hometown of Edinburgh Scotland. Published in 1775 “Ranger’s impartial list of the ladies of pleasure in Edinburgh”

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A recommended Twitter account on a related theme:

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If you can think of it, there’s porn of it. Is that a valid interpretation of rule 34?

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Thinking about that, maybe that’s what a certain segment of customers actually were there for. Like, I have no knowledge of the cultural milieu of brothels of this or any other century but - maybe that was a thing.

Like, for a suitable markup vs. a ‘normal’ hotel, one might stay at a hotel with guaranteed pleasant company and professionally flirtatious young women in the dining room, so one could have a fun evening, flirt and chat and buy some overpriced drinks, and ultimately go to bed alone (though further services would have been available) - might this have been part of the business model of some of the establishments reviewed?

Philadelphia population 1840 408k. Census swelled 556k 1850.