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When asked, “What is art?” Baudelaire answered —“Prostitution.” When walking along the Seine, it is easy to see how Baudelaire may have thought art was prostitution. A myriad of vendors sell identical sketches and paintings of prostitutes lounging in the nude, smoking cigarettes and laughing amongst fellow prostitutes and clients. These images, created by artists […]
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The use of makeup throughout history has had its ups and downs. It often symbolised prostitution or social class, and even underwent serious legal regulation in England from the 1500s. The makeup we see on the streets today has come a long way from the earliest use by our ancestors. Egypt Our story begins with […]
Continue ReadingWhen we think of prostitution, we think of lurid sex shops lining the streets of Montmartre, bikini clad girls dancing in Amsterdam windows or perhaps seedy back alleys in London. It is something removed from us, here in our academic bliss. But the so called “oldest profession” permeates every city. It is hidden behind suburban […]
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