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Price of oral sex in 1920?
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I doubt you'll get a precise answer to this one. The sex marketplace is notoriously circumspect, and rarely puts anything in print. The closest thing to answer this question is a publication from 1911-1912 from San Antonio, Texas, _The Blue Book_ ("Blue" possibly a riff on the "Blue Book" put out by the Jockey Club at the Saratoga Race Track).
Advertisers listed who was available for what services. As you'll see in the article, it didn't list prices, but they did rate "prostitutes and their establishments as "A," "B" and "C" with "A" being first in class."
Here is a link to a newsletter from Special Collections, The Compass Rose, and you'll see that the first article is about the book that is housed in the Special Collections of the University of Texas at Arlington Library.
I did get a look at it before they put it in the collection, but I don't remember anything specific about it:
http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose07/CR-Fall2007.pdf
Knowing that this kind of book was printed, perhaps you can search in your area for libraries with this kind of material.
Advertisers listed who was available for what services. As you'll see in the article, it didn't list prices, but they did rate "prostitutes and their establishments as "A," "B" and "C" with "A" being first in class."
Here is a link to a newsletter from Special Collections, The Compass Rose, and you'll see that the first article is about the book that is housed in the Special Collections of the University of Texas at Arlington Library.
I did get a look at it before they put it in the collection, but I don't remember anything specific about it:
http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose07/CR-Fall2007.pdf
Knowing that this kind of book was printed, perhaps you can search in your area for libraries with this kind of material.
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