3 legendary "fallen women" who should be an example to any politician

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

If they want to find dirt on a man-politician, then they say that he went to selling women. If a woman of any profession, then they say that she was the one to whom they went. But, judging by historical examples, the former inhabitants of brothels make public figures much better than those who buy themselves a living person for an hour or two.

Martha Richard

Fifteen-year-old French German woman Martha was lured out of the house by an adult lover - and then daringly handed over to a brothel for soldiers, "work" in which was a real torture. The girl had to take up to fifty men a day, and, of course, at some point she contracted syphilis. She managed to escape to the capital and recover, but since she has nowhere to run, she again finds herself in a brothel.

Fortunately for Martha, Henri Richard drew attention to her. First, he bought Martha, making him his permanent mistress, then he married her. But her name is refused to be removed from the directory of corrupt women in Paris, so Martha faced universal rejection. She plunged headlong into a super-fashionable hobby in which she could become cool, regardless of any reference books: aviation. Henri bought her a plane, and Martha spent hours learning how to make turns.

Participation in the air show made her a superstar of the country and, when the First World War began, she tried to enlist in the army. She was denied. Meanwhile, her husband died at the front, and Martha accepted an offer from military intelligence to seduce a prominent German diplomat in Spain in order to transmit information to France and disrupt German military operations. Martha was so successful that she received the Legion of Honor … Fifteen years after the war. Until then, she was still rejected by the "decent public". Who cares how much she saved their sons and brothers, because once her body was traded!

Martha's story doesn't end there. During World War II, she fought in the Resistance, but was quickly tracked down by the Gestapo. Martha was saved from death in the concentration camp where she was sent by the fact that Germany had just lost the war. Returning to France, Richard immediately took up a political career and took up a fairly large post only to cover brothels throughout the country. The pimp lobby could keep repeating about the “security” of women in these houses, which the legality gives them, but Richard knew the system well from the inside - there was no smell of security there.

After Richard became a writer, she took part in the Sexual Revolution, founded the Taboo Prize for Erotic Literature, published her memoirs and gave many interviews in which she was not afraid to speak out quite uncompromisingly. For French feminists, Richard is a real example of a strong woman who managed not to lose herself and not break down after literally slavery and long years of persecution and decided to help other women.

Molly B-Dam

Molly, as often happens, was started by her husband. He believed that she should pay for the fact that his family no longer gives him money - after all, he lost funding due to the fact that he married, against the will of his family, to a waitress. So let him be grateful to him on the coffin of life. Moreover, he was a gambler, so he let go of everything that clients gave him, and he loved to drink - and after drinking, to let go.

In the end, Molly fled to the Wild West, to the gold diggers, reasoning that if she was not destined to escape from the life of a corrupt woman, at least she would save up money for her old age. If he lives to old age. In general, even the filthy inhabitants of the saloons and the eternal danger of dying from a bullet, syphilis and tuberculosis turned out to be more attractive to her than living with such a husband.

On the last stretch of the road, when the road went through wild places, in winter, in a blizzard, Molly noticed that one of the women with a child in her arms was exhausted and would soon fall. The fugitive got off the horse, found a hut, and in this hut the women and the child sat out through the blizzard, covered with fur coats. After that, they overtook the main train, very surprising the men in it - they believed that the women had already died. According to one of the versions, Molly received the nickname "Molly B-Dam" because of the exclamation of one of the men, who realized that she was alive and well ("Molly, damn you!..").

In the town of gold diggers, Bi-Dam opened a brothel, which was very different from the others: it looked more like a commune of prostitutes huddled together. Thanks to Molly's ingenuity, money came from more than ordinary services: she put on some kind of funny erotic show with a public bath, into which before they threw coins until the bottom of the bath was no longer visible.

Two years later, a smallpox epidemic swept over the region. The state did not (and could not take) any measures, and there was no question of civic conscience in the Wild West. The sick could simply die in their beds, abandoned by everyone, blinded by the disease and covered with ulcers. Perhaps the disease would have wiped out the entire city, but the city (which he could hardly fully appreciate) had Molly B-Dam. She took over the management of the crisis and smashed the field hospital, where her companions, following Molly, who bravely retrained as sisters of mercy, carried the sick from all over the city.

Seeing at least some kind of organization to fight the epidemic, the doctor joined the hospital, and many patients began to recover thanks to the work of prostitutes under his supervision. Later, several more townspeople were ashamed and joined the volunteers. Molly and her friends fell from their feet from fatigue, but did not leave the hospital until the end of the epidemic - and in honor of Molly, the city came up with a new holiday. Alas, she did not manage to remain a living legend for long. Two years later, she died of tuberculosis. Despite the fact that she was Irish, a Catholic priest categorically refused to serve her funeral service. The funeral ceremony was performed by a Methodist priest. Her real name was written on the grave: Maggie Hall.

Empress Theodora

The future empress of Byzantium was traded from a very early youth, and she did not know another life - and, it seemed, she would not. One day a certain noble man turned her head with words, after whom she, leaving everything, went to Egypt, to Alexandria. But there the man quickly got bored with the game, and he threw Theodora out into the street with small children in her arms. She had to trade her body again.

Fortunately, Theodora met Christian Monophysites, who not only spoke about God out loud, but also really helped women who were repelled and kicked literally by the whole society. They helped Theodora master the craft - hiding threads for sale - and return to Constantinople. After that, she became a deeply religious believer.

There, in Constantinople, walking down the street, an officer saw Theodora in the window. They chatted, and the officer was amazed at the young woman's intelligence. They got married … And after a while he became Emperor Justinian, and she became the Empress and his permanent adviser. Including thanks to her advice, the revolt in Constantinople was stopped - when Justinian himself despaired and tried to flee from the capital. It was Theodora who stopped him and helped develop a plan of action for the reign of peace and quiet. She also helped her husband in many other political situations.

In addition, Theodora never forgot about hundreds (or thousands?) Of girls and women who were not helped by any preachers. She expelled several girls' buyers from the city and built a monastery where adult getters could find refuge (as well as learn to read and write). Only some of them were tonsured.

The people frankly did not like Theodora, and myths about her multiplied. Some of her bad deeds, such as the forced marriage of courtiers, were pure truth, others, on which historians agree, were born from the unwillingness to admit that in the business of selling the body, it is not necessarily due to innate depravity and under other circumstances the one that sells the body may turn out to be a wealthy woman and an active political activist.

Corrupt women were sometimes distinguished not only by social activities. Poetess, actress, singer. Famous courtesans of the East who remained in the history of art of their countries.