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  • About
  • Articles
    • Sex History
    • Sex Worker Voices
    • LGBTQ History
    • Sex Workers Timeline
    • Sex Talk
    • Whore Law of Yore: How New South Wales decriminalised sex work 1979-1995 by Eurydice Aroney
    • Timeline of British Law and Sex Work
  • Kate’s Blog
  • Vintage Erotica
    • Parisian Sex Workers 1930s
    • Erotic Literature
    • Erotic Art
    • 1800s
    • 1900-1950
    • 1950-2000
    • History of Burlesque
    • Delta of Venus Archives
  • Sex Worker Rights
  • Word Of The Day
  • Friends and Allies
  • Historical Hotties
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'Progress of a Woman of Pleasure' by ​Richard Newton

Richard Newton (d.1798) was an English caricaturist, whose short lived, bur brilliant, career left us this wonderful progress of a sex worker in eighteenth-century London. The style of progression is reminiscent of William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress, Marriage a la Mode, Industry and Idleness and A Harlot’s Progress. Newton gives us a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of a woman of pleasure with a sense of wit and concern for his subject. Newton died aged only twenty one of Typhus. ​