{"id":9714,"date":"2023-12-07T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:38:35","slug":"mfdj-12-06-23-castigating-prostitutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=9714","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 12\/07\/23: Castigating Prostitutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Castigated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

The whip was for centuries a favorite means of castigating prostitutes. Mohammed, in the Koran, prescribes a hundred strokes with the whip as a punishment for both a whore and a whoremonger. In the French venereal hospital prisons of Bic\u00eatre\u00a0and Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re , the afflicted women were scourged on their entering, again on leaving, and on many occasions during their incarceration. At one time, procuresses in France, when detected and arrested, were mounted upon asses and, bearing inscriptions on their backs telling the tale of their guilt, were whipped through the streets en route\u00a0<\/em>for the prison. In Italy, prostitutes were branded and whipped; in Spain they were stripped naked and lashed with the birch; in Germany, at the time of Charlemagne, any man found with a prostitute was forced to carry her on his shoulders to the whipping-bench. These measures, however, like all attempts to suppress or to punish prostitution, were fortuitous, spasmodic, and to a certain extend half-hearted; and they were sandwiched between periods, often of long duration, when prostitution was tolerated and, on occasion, approved or glorified.<\/p>\n

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\nFrench prostitutes being taken to the police station; painting by \u00c9tienne Jeaurat\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from: The History of Corporal Punishment<\/a><\/p>\n

Post-Mortem Portrait Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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\nYOUNG CHILD HOLDING LAUREL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daguerreotype 1\/6 Plate, Circa 1854<\/p>\n

Culled from: Sleeping Beauty III<\/a><\/p>\n

Andersonville Prisoner Diary Entry Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

This is the continuation of the 1864 diary of Andersonville prisoner Private George A. Hitchcock (see the\u00a0archived version<\/a>\u00a0for all entries up until now).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s today\u2019s entry:<\/p>\n

August 25th. <\/strong>Very hot. Rations of raw beans and beef. A few prisoners came in.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Andersonville: Giving Up the Ghost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Castigated Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The whip was for centuries a favorite means of castigating prostitutes. Mohammed, in the Koran, prescribes a hundred strokes with the whip as a punishment for both a whore and a whoremonger. In the French venereal hospital prisons of Bic\u00eatre\u00a0and Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re , the afflicted women were scourged on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-ghastly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}