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THE LORD GOD FASHIONED INTO A WOMAN THE RIB WHICH HE HAD TAKEN FROM THE MAN, AND BROUGHT HER TO THE MAN (GENESIS 2:22)
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CAVES ARE UNIQUE (AND SPOOKY) TREASURE CHESTS OF PREHISTORIC LIFE
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NO CLOTHING WAS FOUND DURING THE BRONZE AGE (3300-1200 BC) AND PROBABLY MANY MEN AND WOMEN WERE NAKED
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NO HANDCUFFS WERE FOUND IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN IRON ARTIFACTS OF THE IRON AGE (1200-600 BC) BUT THIS DOESN’T MEAN THAT THEY DID NOT EXIST
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PREHISTORIC WOMEN REGULARLY WENT “HUNTING”, COLLECTING LARVAE, EGGS, HONEY AND, DEPENDING ON THE SEASON, AN ARRAY OF SEEDS, NUTS, FRUITS AND BUSH MEDICINE.
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AT ANCIENT OLYMPIA, THERE WAS A SEPARATE FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF HERA (THE WIFE OF ZEUS), INCLUDING UNMARRIED GIRLS WHO HAD THEIR OWN ATHLETIC CONTESTS. MARRIED WOMEN, ON THE OTHER HAND, WERE BARRED ON PENALTY OF DEATH TO PARTICIPATE. IT IS LIKELY THAT THE WOMEN ALLOWED THE MEN TO WATCH THE GIRLS’ CONTESTS!
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IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THE AMAZONS WERE A GROUP OF FEMALE WARRIORS AND HUNTERS, WHO WERE AS SKILLED AND COURAGEOUS AS MEN IN PHYSICAL AGILITY, STRENGTH, ARCHERY, RIDING SKILLS, AND THE ARTS OF COMBAT. THEIR SOCIETY WAS CLOSED TO MEN.
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HELEN WAS MARRIED TO KING MENELAUS OF SPARTA BUT WAS ABDUCTED BY PRINCE PARIS OF TROY (7TH CENTURY BC).
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IN GREECE, TO HOMER AND THE PRE-CLASSICAL AUTHORS, SLAVERY WAS AN INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF WAR
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IN GREECE AND ROME, WATER GIRLS OR BOYS WERE A COMMON SIGHT AT THE FOUNTAINS, SO COMMON THAT THEY WERE INVISIBLE. THEY NEVER KNEW ANYTHING ELSE, HAVING DONE THAT FOR GENERATIONS AND DIDN’T DESERVE ANYTHING ELSE THAN A NECK COLLAR
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ROMAN SLAVES STARTED WORKING IMMEDIATELY IN THE FIELDS FROM THE SLAVE MARKET WHERE DISPLAYED NAKED, THEY DIDN’T GET LOINCLOTHS UNTIL AFTER A FEW DAYS OR WEEKS.
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PHOENICIA (UNTIL 64 BC) HAD AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE NETWORK FROM TODAY’S LEBANON (BYBLOS, SIDON, TYRE) TO CRETE, CYPRUS, SICILY, SARDINIA AND ALL OF NORTHERN AFRICA. PHOENICIAN SETTLERS ENSLAVED THE PEOPLES OF THE IMMEDIATE HINTERLAND.
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WITH THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA IN 30 BC, THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM THAT LASTED AT LEAST 3,000 YEARS BECAME A ROMAN PROVINCE
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MARIAMNE (DIED 29 BC) WAS A HASMONEAN PRINCESS AND THE SECOND WIFE OF HEROD THE GREAT (OR THE EVIL), KING OF JUDEA WHO PUT HER TO TRIAL ON A CHARGE OF ADULTERY
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WITHIN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, SLAVES WERE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION OR SOMETIMES IN SHOPS, OR BY PRIVATE SALE IN THE CASE OF MORE VALUABLE SLAVES
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WHEREAS MODERN SOCIETIES CONSIDER COMPASSION A VIRTUE, ROMAN SOCIETY CONSIDERED COMPASSION A VICE, A MORAL DEFECT. INDEED, ONE OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE GAMES WAS TO INOCULATE ROMAN CITIZENS FROM THIS WEAKNESS.
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AT THE MATRALIA, A WOMEN’S FESTIVAL HELD JUNE 11 IN CONNECTION WITH THE GODDESS MATER MATUTA, FREE WOMEN CEREMONIALLY BEAT A SLAVE GIRL
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IN ANCIENT ROME, SLAVES NUMBERING IN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WERE CONDEMNED TO WORK IN THE MINES OR QUARRIES, WHERE CONDITIONS WERE NOTORIOUSLY BRUTAL
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IN ROME, THE WORKFORCE OF A FARM WAS MOSTLY SLAVES, MANAGED BY A VILICUS, WHO WAS OFTEN A SLAVE HIMSELF
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BOUDICA OR BOUDICCA WAS A QUEEN OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH ICENI TRIBE, WHO LED A FAILED UPRISING AGAINST THE CONQUERING FORCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN AD 60 OR 61. SHE IS CONSIDERED A BRITISH NATIONAL HEROINE. ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN HISTORIAN TACITUS, BOUDICA WAS FLOGGED.
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MANY SLAVES FOR THE ROMAN MARKET WERE ACQUIRED THROUGH WARFARE
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THE PRICE OF A ROMAN SLAVE COULD BE VALUED BETWEEN 2,000 SESTERTII (4,400 USD) FOR AN UNSKILLED MALE WORKER AND 25,000 SESTERTII (55,000 USD) FOR A PRETTY GIRL.
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IN EARLY GERMANY, THERE WAS CERTAINLY A SLAVE TRADE, AND MANY SLAVES WERE SOLD TO THE ROMANS. FROM THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS ONWARD, THERE WAS A HUGE INCREASE IN GERMAN IMPORTS FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE. ROMAN PRODUCTS BROUGHT THEIR OWNERS MUCH PRESTIGE, BUT HOW THE GERMANS PAID FOR THEM IS NOT FULLY KNOWN.
Marcoman female slave 
Cherusci female slave 
Suebian female slave
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ZENOBIA, QUEEN OF PALMYRE (SYRIA TODAY) AND OF EGYPT (AD 267-272) WAS CHAINED BY ROMAN EMPEROR AURELIAN AND PARADED FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE CITY’S POPULACE
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AT THE END OF THE THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD (220-280 AD), EMPEROR SUN HAO BECAME A TYRANT, KILLING OR EXILING ALL WHO DARED OPPOSE HIM IN THE COURT AND HUMILIATING THEIR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
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MANY HAN CHINESE WERE ENSLAVED IN THE PROCESS OF THE MONGOL INVASION OF CHINA (1205-1279)
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FREDEGUND, MISTRESS THEN CONSORT OF KING CHILPERIC I OF NEUSTRIA (DIED 597 IN PARIS), HAD BRUNHILDA, CONSORT OF KING SIGEBERT I OF AUSTRASIA, IMPRISONED FOR A PERIOD. FREDEGUND HAD KING SIGEBERT MURDERED IN 575 AND FREDEGUND’S SON, KING CHLOTHAR II HAD BRUNHILDA EXECUTED BY BEING PULLED APART BY FOUR HORSES IN 613.
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THE IDEA OF HAREM OR SECLUSION OF WOMEN WAS WELL ESTABLISHED AMONGST THE UPPER CLASSES OF IRAQ, THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, ANCIENT GREECE AND PERSIA FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE ADVENT OF ISLAM
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IN EARLY ISLAMIC SLAVERY (C. 10TH CENTURY), THE PALACES OF CALIPHS AND AMIRS KEPT MOST OF THE YOUNG SAQALIBA (SLAV) SLAVES NAKED AT ALL TIMES
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IN 1120, THE COUNCIL OF NABLUS FORBADE SEXUAL RELATIONS BETWEEN CRUSADERS AND THEIR FEMALE MUSLIM SLAVES
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THE MONGOL INVASIONS AND CONQUESTS IN THE 13TH CENTURY ADDED A NEW FORCE IN THE SLAVE TRADE
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CATHARS WAS A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT IN SOUTHERN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN NORTHERN ITALY AND SOUTHERN FRANCE, BETWEEN THE 12TH AND 14TH CENTURIES, DENOUNCED AS A HERETICAL SECT BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ERADICATED BY 1350. THEY BELIEVED THAT THERE WERE NOT ONE, BUT TWO GODS—THE GOOD GOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE EVIL GOD, SATAN, THE MASTER OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD. MANY THOUSANDS WERE PERSECUTED.
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ALICE KYTELER (1263 – AFTER 1325) WAS THE FIRST RECORDED PERSON CONDEMNED FOR WITCHCRAFT IN IRELAND. HER SERVANT PETRONILLA DE MEATH WAS FLOGGED AND BURNED TO DEATH, AFTER BEING TORTURED AND CONFESSING TO THE HERETICAL CRIMES: BEWITCHING AND KILLING ALICE’S FOUR HUSBANDS TO TAKE THEIR MONEY, DISPLAYS OF SEXUALITY ACTS, INCLUDING MASTURBATION. THE CREDIBILITY OF THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE USED WAS DUBIOUS.
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ELIZABETH DE BURGH (1289-1327), QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (1306-1327), WAS IMPRISONED FOR 8 YEARS BY THE ENGLISH IN YORKSHIRE, WHERE SHE HAD ALMOST NO CLOTHES, NOT EVEN A DECENT BED. SHE HAD AN AUDIENCE WITH KING EDWARD II OF ENGLAND AND WAS RELEASED IN 1314 AS PART OF A RANSOM.
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IN 1314, A SCANDAL KNOWN AS THE TOUR DE NESLE AFFAIR IMPLICATED THE DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW OF FRENCH KING PHILIP IV (LE BEL), WHO WERE ACCUSED OF ADULTERY. MANY OF THE ALLEGED LIAISONS WERE SAID TO HAVE OCCURRED IN THE TOUR DE NESLE. THE SCANDAL LED TO THE IMPRISONMENT OF THE PRINCESSES.
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ALTHOUGH THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH HELD THAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT OWN FELLOW CHRISTIANS AS SLAVES, VIKINGS CONTINUE TO TRADE SLAVES FROM FINLAND OR BALTIC STATES
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DURING THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES, THE MAIN SOURCE OF SLAVES IN CAUCASUS WAS THE SERIES OF WARS IN THE TERRITORIES RULED BY NON-MUSLIM SOVEREIGN POWERS. EVERYBODY, UP TO KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCES AND PRINCESSES WERE ROUTINELY REDUCED TO SLAVERY AND EMPLOYED IN A VARIETY OF MENIAL WORKS.
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KING OF FRANCE LOUIS XI (1423-1483) TRANSFORMED LOCHES TOWER INTO A FAMOUS JAIL, POPULARIZED BY HIS FAMOUS FILLETTES: THE TRADITION USED TO SAY THEY WERE TINY WOODEN CAGES. BUT NOT AT ALL! THE FILLETTES (″LITTLE GIRLS″) WERE ONLY HEAVY CHAINS WHICH SHACKED PRISONERS’ HANDS AND FEET…
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IN THE MIDDLE AGES (5TH-15TH CENTURY), THE GENERAL PUBLIC SEEMED TO AGREE WITH THE NOTION THAT AN ADULTEROUS WOMAN BROUGHT SHAME AND DISHONOR TO HER HUSBAND AND HER FAMILY, AND SHOULD FACE STRICT PENALTIES
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ONLY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (1300-1500) DID SLAVES BEGIN TO BE INCREASINGLY EMPLOYED AS ROWERS. IT ALSO BECAME THE CUSTOM AMONG THE MEDITERRANEAN POWERS TO SENTENCE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS TO ROW IN THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE STATE
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THE BEGINNING OF THE WITCH ACCUSATIONS IN EUROPE TOOK PLACE IN THE 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES. HOWEVER AS THE SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS OF THE 16TH CENTURY TOOK PLACE, WITCHCRAFT TRIALS INTENSIFIED.
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GENOA PRIMARILY MANAGED THE SLAVE TRADE FROM CRIMEA TO MAMLUK EGYPT, UNTIL THE 13TH CENTURY, WHEN INCREASING VENETIAN CONTROL OVER THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ALLOWED VENICE TO DOMINATE THAT MARKET. BETWEEN 1414 AND 1423 ALONE, AT LEAST 10,000 SLAVES WERE SOLD IN VENICE.
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IN RENAISSANCE, SEX CONSTITUTED ONLY A FACET OF THE COURTESAN’S ARRAY OF SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WERE WELL-DRESSED AND READY TO ENGAGE AND PARTICIPATE IN A VARIETY OF TOPICS RANGING FROM ART TO MUSIC TO POLITICS.
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COUNTESS BATHORY (HUNGARY 1560-1614)’S INITIAL VICTIMS WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF LOCAL PEASANTS, MANY OF WHOM WERE LURED BY OFFERS OF WELL PAID WORK AS MAIDSERVANTS IN THE CASTLE
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IN NEW ENGLAND DURING THE PURITAN AREA (17TH CENTURY), FOR ADULTERY, THE PUNISHMENT WAS USUALLY A WHIPPING
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MOST PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE SO-CALLED TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE BY EUROPEANS INTO THE NEW WORLD IN MIND. BUT IN REALITY, THE ARAB-MUSLIM SLAVERY IN EAST AFRICA (17TH CENTURY AND AFTER) WAS MUCH GREATER.
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THE CRIMEAN KHANATE MAINTAINED A MASSIVE SLAVE TRADE, EXPORTING ABOUT 2 MILLION SLAVES FROM RUSSIA AND POLAND-LITHUANIA OVER THE PERIOD 1500–1700
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THE ‘MAN IN THE IRON MASK’ IS THE NAME GIVEN TO AN UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER WHO WAS ARRESTED IN 1669 OR 1670 UNDER KING LOUIS XIV AND SUBSEQUENTLY HELD IN A NUMBER OF FRENCH PRISONS, INCLUDING THE BASTILLE: NO HISTORIAN HAS DARED TO SUGGEST THAT THIS PRISONER WAS PERHAPS A WOMAN
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THE MARQUIS DE SADE (1740-1814) IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS EROTIC WORKS, WHICH COMBINED PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE WITH PORNOGRAPHY, DEPICTING SEXUAL FANTASIES, PROPONENT OF EXTREME FREEDOM. THE WORDS SADISM AND SADIST ARE DERIVED FROM HIS NAME.
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DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TERROR (1789-1794), THERE WAS A LOT OF VIOLENT RHETORIC AGAINST THE NOBILITY, AND A POPULAR MOVEMENT TO IMPRISON THEM AS SUSPECTS
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IT IS ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 1500 AND 1800, 1 MILLION TO 1.25 MILLION WHITE CHRISTIAN EUROPEANS WERE ENSLAVED IN NORTH AFRICA BY SLAVE TRADERS FROM TUNIS, ALGIERS, AND TRIPOLI ALONE
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TIMBUKTU WAS A MYSTERY CITY UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY, NO WESTERNERS, VERY POPULATED, AND A LOT OF SLAVES COMING FROM NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES. TO WORK IN THE CITY UNTIL 35 YEARS OLD, NAKED (AS THEY WERE IN THEIR VILLAGE) AT ALL TIMES, CHAINED, NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK AT AND REQUIRED TO PROSTERNATE AND CRAWL IN FRONT OF THE KING OF TIMBUKTU AND HIS ENTOURAGE. THIS WAS A NORMAL LIFE FOR THEM AS THEY HADN’T KNOWN ANYTHING ELSE FOR GENERATIONS.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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DURING THE TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVE TRADE, LOTS OF WHITE SLAVES CAPTURED BY BARBARY PIRATES WERE TRANSPORTED ACROSS THE SAHARA DESERT INTO OTHER MUSLIM REGIONS IN NORTHERN AFRICA (16TH-19TH CENTURIES).
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BRITISH QUEEN CAROLINE (1768-1821, WIFE OF KING GEORGE IV) WAS SECRETLY INVESTIGATED FOR RUMOURS ABOUT SCANDALOUS EVENTS AT HER ROYAL RESIDENCE WITH THE WIFE OF A COLONEL.
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DURING THE TIME OF THE REGENCY OF ALGIERS IN NORTH AFRICA IN THE 19TH CENTURY, 1.5 MILLION CHRISTIANS AND EUROPEANS WERE CAPTURED AND FORCED INTO SLAVERY. THIS EVENTUALLY LED TO THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS BY THE FRENCH IN 1816.
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DURING THE 19TH CENTURY, SLAVE TRADERS AND RAIDERS MOVED THROUGHOUT EASTERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA TO MEET THE RISING DEMAND FOR ENSLAVED MEN AND WOMEN
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AIMÉE DU BUC DE RIVÉRY (BORN 1768) WAS A FRENCH NOBLEWOMAN CAPTURED BY BARBARY PIRATES, SOLD AS A HAREM CONCUBINE, WHO BECAME THE OTTOMAN VALIDE SULTAN (EMPRESS MOTHER) AND MOTHER OF SULTAN MAHMUD II
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THE NEW FEMALE COTERIE (c. 1770) WAS AN 18TH-CENTURY SOCIAL CLUB FOR HIGH-STATUS WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN PUBLICLY SHAMED FOR PROMISCUITY OR ADULTERY. MEETINGS TOOK PLACE AT THE EXCLUSIVE BROTHEL RUN BY SARAH PENDERGAST ON KING’S PLACE.
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IN 1815, FRENCH EMPEROR NAPOLEON DECREED THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE UPON HIS RETURNING FROM ELBA. HIS DECISION WAS CONFIRMED BY ORDER OF KING LOUIS XVIII IN 1817. HOWEVER TRAFFICKING CONTINUED DESPITE SANCTIONS.
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EMPEROR JOSEPH II (REIGNED 1765-1790) ABOLISHED PROSTITUTION AND FORNICATION AND THE MEANS ADOPTED WERE FINES, IMPRISONMENT, WHIPPING AND TORTURE.
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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1760-1840) FAVORED FEMALE LABORERS BECAUSE THEY WERE PAID LOWER WAGES THAN MEN, AND THEY WERE MORE EASILY COERCED AND INTIMIDATED INTO WORKING LONGER HOURS, USUALLY FROM 5 A.M. UNTIL 7 P.M., WITH THE AVERAGE WORK WEEK CONSISTING OF WELL OVER 70 HOURS.
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IN RUSSIA, SERFDOM WAS ABOLISHED IN 1861, BUT ITS ABOLITION WAS ACHIEVED ON TERMS NOT ALWAYS FAVORABLE TO THE PEASANTS
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SOME MIGHT SAY THAT THE KHIVA SLAVE MARKET WAS AN IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF THE FREE MARKET ECONOMY. SLAVES WERE SOLD NAKED AND NECK-COLLARED AS IF THEY WERE LIVESTOCK. USUALLY DEMAND FELL AFTER A BATTLE (LOST ONES WERE ENSLAVED). PERSIAN WOMEN WERE HIGHLY PRIZED FOR THE HAREM. THERE WERE SMALL SLAVE SHOPS (2-3 SLAVES) ALL OVER THE CITY. AT THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, A MILLION PERSIANS WERE CAPTURED AND SOLD IN KHIVA (TODAY, IN UZBEKISTAN).
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THE ARRIVAL OF THE RAILWAY IN THE 19TH CENTURY MEANT IT WAS SUDDENLY POSSIBLE NOT ONLY TO TRAVEL, BUT ALSO TO TRANSPORT GOODS AND INFORMATION FROM ONE END OF THE COUNTRY TO THE OTHER IN A MATTER OF HOURS RATHER THAN DAYS
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DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA (1837-1901), 1.3 MILLION MAIDS WERE EMPLOYED, CONSIDERED AS HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS AND TREATED FAIRLY, ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES SEVERELY
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ONE OF THE WORST DEFEATS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: THE BATTLE OF ISANDLWANA AGAINST THE ZULU KING IN 1879 
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SLAVERY WAS IMPORTANT TO THE ECONOMY OF THE KINGOM OF DAHOMEY (TODAY, BENIN). SLAVES WERE CAPTURED IN WARS AND SLAVE RAIDS AND SOLD DOMESTICALLY TO WORK ON ROYAL PALM OIL PLANTATIONS AND TO EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADERS IN EXCHANGE FOR VARIOUS GOODS SUCH AS RIFLES, GUNPOWDER, TEXTILES, COWRY SHELLS, AND ALCOHOL. SLAVERY ENDED OFFICIALLY IN 1894. 
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SLAVERY EXISTED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN THE SULTANATE OF ZANZIBAR UNTIL 1909, OFFICIALLY. SLAVES FROM THE SWAHILI COAST OF EASTERN AFRICA WERE TRAFFICKED ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN TO OMAN IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA.
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PARIS, THE ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: LE CHABANAIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN AND MOST LUXURIOUS BROTHELS, OPERATING NEAR THE LOUVRE FROM 1878 UNTIL 1946, WHEN BROTHELS WERE OUTLAWED IN FRANCE. AMONG THE HABITUÉS WERE ALBERT, PRINCE OF WALES (LATER KING EDWARD VII), TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, CARY GRANT, HUMPHREY BOGART, MAE WEST…
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PAUL GAUGUIN WAS A FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER. HE REALIZED MANY PAINTINGS IN TAHITI BETWEEN 1891 AND 1901 AND MARRIED THREE TAHITIAN GIRLS, SEEKING A REFUGE FROM THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION. SOME OF HIS PAINTINGS ARE VALUED TODAY UP TO 30 MILLION $.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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THE OLYMPIC GAMES REVIVED IN 1890 HAVE BROUGHT HOPE TO GENERATIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
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AMERICAN INDIAN WARS (1776-1924): THE INDIANS, THEIR TRADITIONAL WAY OF LIFE DISRUPTED, ENGAGED IN AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR TOWARD WHITE SETTLERS
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GEISHA WERE FIRSTLY FORBIDDEN FROM SELLING SEX, THOUGH MANY CONTINUED TO DO SO (JAPAN, 19TH CENTURY)
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WHEN SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN 1848, SLAVES WERE REPLACED IN THE MINES OF FRENCH GUYANA BY FRENCH CONVICTS UNTIL 1953
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AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE WEST DISCOVERED THE UNIQUE SEXUALITY OF JAPAN, VERY DIFFERENT FROM MAINLAND ASIA, THE GEISHA AND SHIBARI, THE MOST WIDELY RECOGNIZED JAPANESE FETISH EXPORTED TO MOST WESTERN MARKETS.
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ON ARRIVAL IN THE GULAG (1918-1960), WOMEN WERE GENERALLY LED NAKED TO THE BATHHOUSE WHERE THEY HAD A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO WASH EVEN IF SOMETIMES THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH WATER
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A DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE SOVIET GREAT PURGE (1936-1938) UNDER STALIN WAS THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, THEIR EMPLOYEES AND SECRETARIES, TOTALING 700,000 TO 1.2 MILLION DEATHS, WERE INCLUDED. 
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MOST GULAG FEMALE PRISONERS WERE THE VICTIMS OF ARBITRARY AND SEVERE LEGAL CAMPAIGNS UNDER WHICH PETTY THEFT, LATENESS, OR UNEXCUSED ABSENCES FROM WORK WERE PUNISHED BY MANY YEARS IN COLLECTIVE AGRICULTURE CAMPS
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THE LAST DAYS OF THE RAJ (1947), AN ATTEMPT TO GIVE THE REASONS, WITHOUT PASSION AND WITHOUT PARTIALITY
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INDONESIA : EVEN IN THE 1960S, ELDERS RECALLED THERE WAS SLIM CHANCE AN ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN WOULD BECOME A LEGITIMATE LOW-CASTE WIFE (PENAWING) OF THE RAJA. MORE LIKELY AFTER AFFORDING A FEW YEARS’ LICENTIOUS SATISFACTION, SHE WOULD DEGENERATE INTO A SLAVE-LIKE SERVANT.
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ERNESTO “CHE” GUEVARA (DIED 1967) REMAINS A NATIONAL HERO IN CUBA, WHERE SCHOOL CHILDREN BEGIN EACH MORNING BY PLEDGING “WE WILL BE LIKE CHE.”*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN CHINA WERE VIOLENTLY PERSECUTED DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966-1976). THOSE IDENTIFIED AS SPIES, “RUNNING DOGS”, “REVISIONISTS”, WERE SUBJECT TO BEATING, IMPRISONMENT, RAPE, SUSTAINED AND SYSTEMATIC HARASSMENT AND ABUSE, AND ERASURE OF SOCIAL IDENTITY.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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THE KHMER ROUGE, CAMBODIA (1975-1979): THE AGRICULTURAL REFORM TRANSFORMED CARE-FREE STUDENTS TO FARMERS AND BEASTS OF BURDEN
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WHEN DECOLONIZATION BEGAN IN THE 1960S, THERE WERE REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
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SINCE THE 1960S, THE POST-COLONIAL CONFLICTS IN AFRICA HAVE RESULTED IN NUMEROUS DISPLACEMENTS OF POPULATIONS
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FARC GUERRILLA IN COLOMBIA (1964-2017): IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT YOUNG FEMALE RECRUITS IN COLOMBIA WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED BY VETERAN GUERRILLA SOLDIERS
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THE “STAR WARS” UNIVERSE (1977) IS THE HIGHEST-GROSSING FILM FRANCHISE WORLDWIDE. WITH SCIENCE FICTION MAIN CHARACTER PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA
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DURING THE SINO-VIETAMESE WAR (1979), SOME OF THE VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS TAKEN PRISONER BY CHINA WERE WOMEN
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AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE SHAH IN 1979, IRANIAN LAW HAS REQUIRED ALL WOMEN IN IRAN TO WEAR HIJABS THAT COVER THEIR HEAD AND NECK, AND CONCEAL THEIR HAIR. IN 2015 FOR EXAMPLE, IN AN EIGHT-MONTH PERIOD THE MORALITY POLICE IN TEHRAN STOPPED 40,000 WOMEN DRIVING FOR NOT OBEYING ISLAMIC RULES OF PROPER DRESS.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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NORTH KOREA (SINCE 1948): DEFECTORS HAVE PROVIDED DETAILED TESTIMONIES ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE TOTAL CONTROL ZONES WHERE ABUSES SUCH AS TORTURE, RAPE AND FORCED LABOR HAVE BEEN REPORTED*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SEXUAL LIBERATION OF MAY 1968, THE ‘STORY OF O’ IS BOTH THE SYMBOL OF THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN, FREE OF HER FANTASIES, AND THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIFICATION OF THE WOMAN
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IN THE 20TH CENTURY, THE CONVENIENCE OF THE AUTOMOBILE FREED PEOPLE FROM THE NEED TO LIVE NEAR RAIL LINES OR STATIONS; THEY COULD CHOOSE LOCATIONS ALMOST ANYWHERE, AS LONG AS ROADS WERE AVAILABLE
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MUNCHES (CASUAL SOCIAL GATHERINGS FOR PEOPLE INVOLVED IN OR INTERESTED IN BDSM) STARTED IN THE EARLY 1990S, PRIOR TO THE WIDESPREAD INTRODUCTION OF THE WEB. AT THAT TIME, MEETING MEMBERS OF THE BDSM SCENE WAS DIFFICULT, GIVEN THE PREVALENT BIAS AGAINST BDSM.
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IN 2011 IN ASIA, IT WAS ESTIMATED THERE WERE 10 MILLION SEX WORKERS AND 75 MILLION MALE CUSTOMERS 
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TRIBE CHIEFS’ DAUGHTERS WERE SUMMONED TO BAB AL-AZIZIA, GADDAFI’S PALATIAL COMPOUND NEAR TRIPOLI, TO BE HUMILIATED, ABUSED, RAPED AND DEGRADED BY GADDAFI (1969).
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*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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CHARLES TAYLOR, PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA (1997-2003), FLEW TO NIGERIA IN OCTOBER 2003, ALONG WITH GIRLFRIENDS WHO WERE EARLIER GIFTS OF FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT FODAY SANKOH OF SIERRA LEONE. IN MAY 2012, TAYLOR WAS SENTENCED TO 50 YEARS IN PRISON.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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IN THE LATTER DAYS OF THE LIBYAN CIVIL WAR (2011), ACCUSATIONS EMERGED FROM FIVE MEMBERS OF THE AMAZONIAN GUARD OF RAPE AND OTHER ABUSE BY COLONEL GADDAFI AND HIS SONS
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CLOSE TO 100,000 BARE-BREASTED UNMARRIED SWAZI GIRLS ARE GATHERING EVERY YEAR AT THE ROYAL RESIDENCE FOR A WEEK-LONG CELEBRATION OF VIRGINITY THAT WILL CULMINATE IN KING MSWATI III OF ESWATINI (FORMERLY SWAZILAND, REIGNED SINCE 1983) SELECTING A NEW VIRGIN BRIDE.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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21ST CENTURY GLOBALIZATION: TODAY THERE ARE 230 MILLION MIGRANTS OR 3% OF THE WORLD POPULATION (PHOTO: FILIPINAS IN A GULF ARAB COUNTRY)
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THE LARGEST MIGRATION IN AFRICA STILL TAKES PLACE WITHIN AFRICA. IN MALI, FOR EXAMPLE,THE GROWING DEMAND FOR GOLD HAS LED TO A PROPORTIONATE GROWING DEMAND FOR THE LOW-SKILLED SO-CALLED “ARTISANAL” GOLD MINERS, FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. MANY ARE FALSELY LURED TO MALI BY CRIMINAL TRAFFICKING GANGS AND WIND UP FORCED LABORERS.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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GLOBALIZATION: THE VOLUME OF WORLD TRADE INCREASED 27-FOLD FROM $296 BILLION IN 1950 TO $8 TRILLION IN 2005
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IN THE 20TH CENTURY, THE IDEAL OF A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS WAS REALIZED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH THE SCHENGEN AREA (1995) WHICH ALLOWS TRAVEL WITHOUT PASSPORT AND WITHOUT CONTROL IN 26 COUNTRIES
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GLOBALIZATION: BY 2050, 1 IN 5 AMERICANS WILL CLAIM A MULTIRACIAL BACKGROUND
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WITH THE GENERALIZATION OF SUMMER VACATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, THE TEN MOST-VISITED BEACHES IN 2021 ARE WHITEHAVEN BEACH IN AUSTRALIA, LANIKAI BEACH IN HAWAII, HORSESHOE BAY IN BERMUDA, CAYO COCO BEACH IN CUBA, BÁVARO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, BOULDERS BEACH IN SOUTH AFRICA, BOURNEMOUTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PINK SANDS BEACH IN THE BAHAMAS, AO NANG IN THAILAND AND PLAYA PARAISO IN MEXICO.
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21ST CENTURY: A WORRYING EXEMPLE OF A JOB THAT HAS BEEN REPLACED TODAY BY TECHNOLOGY
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GLOBAL WARMING IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE FOR THE MANKIND IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES EXPERIENCED MANY WARS AND REVOLUTIONS: IT HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN EASY TO DISTINGUISH THE “GOOD” FROM THE “BAD”, FOR SECURITY REASONS
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AFGHANISTAN: WHEN THE TALIBAN SEIZED POWER AGAIN IN AUGUST 2021, LOCAL WOMEN WERE ORDERED NOT TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSES OTHERWISE THERE WOULD BE CONSEQUENCES.*
*This is NOT real history, it’s ONLY consensual adult fantasy
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COVID-19 (2019-2022): CLAIMING CLOSE TO 500 MILLION INFECTED AND MORE THAN 6 MILLION DEATHS, THE VACCINE AND FREEDOM RESTRICTIONS WERE IMPOSED IN MOST COUNTRIES 
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21ST CENTURY: THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN BE CATASTROPHIC IF LEFT IN THE WRONG HANDS
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21ST CENTURY: PRISONS HAVE CHANGED A GREAT DEAL IN THE PAST 30 YEARS, INMATE AND STAFF SUBCULTURES AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THEM HAVE CHANGED
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THE 21ST CENTURY HAS BEEN A CRUCIAL CENTURY IN WHICH THE CONDITION OF WOMEN HAS CHANGED AS NEVER BEFORE
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IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WOMEN HAVE A LONGER EMOTIONAL LIFE, NOT ONLY THANKS TO BETTER HEALTH BUT ALSO TO AN OPEN-MINDEDNESS RICHER IN MANY DIVERSIFIED PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
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STILL TODAY, THERE ARE UP TO 100,000 UNCONTACTED PEOPLE I.E. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LIVING WITHOUT SUSTAINED CONTACT WITH NEIGHBOURING COMMUNITIES. THE BEST-KNOWN AREAS ARE THE SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND (INDIA), SOUTH AMERICA INCLUDING THE AMAZON FOREST AND WEST PAPUA, NEW GUINEA (INDONESIA)
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