DYK #HavelockEllis (d.1939) & Richard von #KrafftEbing (d.1902) disagreed on the nature of the sex worker? Ebing saw her as over-sexed. Ellis saw her as indifferent to coitus. In fact, occasional sex work was fairly common for the many women who were without means.

#KrafftEbing believed that anything but coitus for reproduction was “perverse”:
“With the opportunity for the natural satisfaction of the sexual instinct, every expression of it that does not correspond w/the purpose of nature—i.e., propagation—must be regarded as perverse.”

DYK Richard von #KrafftEbing supported #Darwin’s ideas on #monogamy as the basis of life in a civilized world? “… the love of man, if considered from the…advanced civilization, can only be of a monogamic nature…From the moment when woman was…the peer of man, when monogamy