Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th-Century Ballerinas | HISTORY
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Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th-Century Ballerinas | HISTORY
With shopgirls, department stores could harness what historian Peter Bailey termed, in his history of Victorian sexual culture, parasexuality. Writing about bar maidens, Bailey conceptualized parasexuality as feminine sexuality that is “deployed but not fully released.”
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