Setting: Victorian London, December 1900. Two sixteen-year-old girls, living in fairly horrible conditions in Whitechapel. Prostitutes to a variety of men, still reasonably attractive for girls who've had hard lives in those times. One of them is a Slovakian prostitute, and the other is English.
How much would it realistically cost them to rent half a bed (they sleep two to a bed) in a brothel, and how much could they realistically charge per, um, sexual encounter in old money?
I can find various things on prostitution or paedophilia in the Victorian age, but they all seem like rather large estimates (twenty Victorian pounds per sexual encounter? No way, right?)
How much would it realistically cost them to rent half a bed (they sleep two to a bed) in a brothel, and how much could they realistically charge per, um, sexual encounter in old money?
I can find various things on prostitution or paedophilia in the Victorian age, but they all seem like rather large estimates (twenty Victorian pounds per sexual encounter? No way, right?)