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Note that, as others have also pointed out elsewhere, "gay woman" used to mean prostitute.
by chmod775 5y ago
Note that, as others have also pointed out elsewhere, "gay woman" used to mean prostitute.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoRight. I have doubts about the academic writer in 1889 using that meaning of "gay", as a phrase it was ambiguous then, and is _differently_ confusing now. Removing it seems like clarity not prudery. Indeed the opposite of prudery, it removes (literally) Victorian assumptions about the wearer of fancy clothes.