Prostitution

**Prostitution** is a widespread legal profession in Kasslyne, though there is plenty of illegal prostitution across the continent as the destitute are taken advantage of and unscrupulous folks attempt to avoid government oversight.

## Sharteshane

*"Sharteshane’s underclass culture is pretty twisted, [and despite having equal legal standing in Sharteshane in practice women are often treated more like property than men].*

*Once you come of age among Sharteshanian rogues you have to pay jukrum to remain in the family. There are acceptable lines of work for a rogue - burglary, begging, pocketpicking, smuggling, prostitution, enforcement, and so on. You don’t have to do these things. You can leave the family and go honest, but that’s considered a betrayal and your family will think less of you. Some might even kill you for it, but it’s not common among the Frummagems.*

*The Frummagems have a reputation for their brothels and their prostitutes. Stockyard didn’t open the Nevergreen on a whim; he had access to good deals on pleasure pymarics, he knew how to train working girls (and guys), and he knew the business.*

*The business, such as it is, brings in a lot of money. There is nothing dishonourable or shameful in the family about working in that business and supporting the family through acquiring your jukrum that way. In fact, if the boss thinks you will be more successful as a whore, even if you really want to learn pymary or crack heads instead… tough. He’s the paterfamilias, and he’s going to force you into whatever he feels is best for you and best for the family[, and what's between a woman's legs is considered to automatically make them a brothel asset with potential to earn more than a just okay wright or enforcer]."*

## Alderode

*"[In Alderode]; prostitution and brothels are only legal in a few select pleasure towns. The town of Winalils - which once was indeed wholly owned by the Winalils family in the days of the landed nobility - is one such pleasure town. Bastion’s lordly father still plays a major part in running the place, but he’s a miserable old sod and no fun about it. With that said, prostitutes aren’t difficult to find throughout the rest of the country. It’s technically an illegal profession, but you have to really irritate the local police to convince them to arrest you for it."* Legal prostitutes are required to be sterilized or otherwise use birth control to prevent pregnancies, plat prostitutes are not allowed sterilization as they are required to go home and have a few plat kids right before they die. *"[The] caste rules [forbidding dalliances with other castes] don’t apply, however plats are considered the most desirable prostitutes, not only for their fair looks and “eternal youth” (nice spin, isn’t it), but because they’ll die soon enough and take the evidence of your socially unacceptable dalliance with them."*

## Brothels

* Deadly Nevergreen - Cresce, Ethelmik - illegal
* The Midnight Cricket - Sharteshane, New Tawhoque

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/112352058620/so-from-narys-point-of-view-forcing-knock-and
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/615353873222254592/does-alderode-have-brothels-to-the-general-public
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/157223825695/this-is-going-to-sound-very-cold-blooded-but-the
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/187310929805/how-does-prostitution-work-in-alderode-can