Band of Brothels: Difference between revisions

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Nandi's brothel is rather bizarre, because while on one hand it's a standard brothel run by a madam, it's also something of a mutual-aid society (given Nandi's training).

 

 

== Real Life ==

** There is also the English Collective of Prostitutes.

** In general there are a [[wikipedia:Category:Sex worker organizations|lot of these]], including the admittedly silly-sounding Canadian Guild of Erotic Labour and the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, which also focuses on the collection and preservation of art by and about sex workers.

* And the Finnish sex workers' organization is called SALLI. Salli is both a traditional woman's name and the second person imperative form of the verb "allow" in Finnish.

* The German equivalent is called Hydra e.V.

* New Zealands Prostitutes Collective were instrumental in passing the Prostitution Reform Act 2003

* One of the oldest ones is the "Rode draad" or "red thread" in the Netherlands. Being both a lampshade of the infamous red light districts and a Dutch-language pun on having something in common.

** Appropriately, the organization takes it's left-wing, or "red" roots very seriously. It is one of the powerhouses of Dutch politics, and has done valuable work in multiple areas, including law enforcement, workplace safety regulations and public healthcare reform.

* Religious institutions have often taken on the role of "supervisor of the brothels," typically maintaining standards of cleanliness of facilities and ensuring the welfare of the prostitutes. In some cases, this was because the religious authorities held a "better allowed, safe, and under our control than prohibited, dangerous, and out of our hands" attitude towards the practice; in other cases, this was because the prostitution was a religious ritual/duty.

** But in Paris and Lyons in medieval France, they were part of the guild dealing with baths, which led to moral censors deciding to completely close the public baths in France as well in the 17th century.

*** The term devadasi originally described a Hindu religious practice in which girls were "married" and dedicated to a deity (deva or devi). In addition to taking care of the temple, and performing rituals they learned and practiced Bharatanatyam and other classical Indian arts traditions, and enjoyed a high social status. Over time, the institution became identified with prostitution.

* The temple prostitution of Ishtar is [[Older Than Dirt]]. Makes sense, as Ishtar was ''literally'' the goddess of sex.

 

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