Brothel

As I left the brothel, I was embarrassed to be seen by my friends.

I plan to work in a brothel.

Tom went to the brothel.

This is a hotel, not a brothel.

Sami visited a brothel.

Sami ran a brothel.

Sami stayed the night at a brothel.

Mennad met Baya in a brothel.

This building is not a brothel.

You were at the brothel. I can smell it all over you.

Thus, during the last four years, I have visited brothels about every ten days or two weeks. Only seldom does coitus fail; for I have learned my peculiarities, and in the choice of a prostitute know immediately whether she will excite me or have no effect.

Only women already existing in the social margins became actresses.²⁶ For example, celebrated tragedienne Elizabeth Barry was an orphan, Nell Gwynn a barmaid raised in a brothel, Moll Davis the illegitimate daughter of a Colonel. Other actresses were the wives and daughters of male actors, as for example Mary Saunderson (Mrs Betterton) and (in a later period) Mrses Kean, Kemble and Siddons.