A wave of "young sluts" rolled into London during World War II, seeking out U.S. soldiers bearing wads of cash and thoroughly freaking out the British government, according to files released Tuesday. As thousands of "good-time girls" worked Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, the British government worried about the Nazis turning the prostitution boom into a propaganda jackpot, and fretted that an epidemic of venereal diseases among U.S. soldiers might sour Anglo-American relations, Reuters reported. Still, a levelheaded old-timer at the Home Office attempted to quiet the panic, comparing London's wartime whoring to the streets and brothels of Paris during World War I. "London at the moment is by comparison a Sunday school," he wrote.
The Whores of War
A wave of “young sluts” rolled into London during World War II, seeking out U.S. soldiers bearing wads of cash and thoroughly freaking out the British government, according to files released Tuesday. As thousands of “good-time girls” worked Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, the British government worried about the Nazis turning the prostitution boom into […]
