Although it's voluntary, there are extremely large loopholes.
For example, "voluntarily joining" under pressure from family members.
But their treatment was already much better than that of prostitutes in other countries.
In other countries, when a family is struggling to make ends meet, their first thought is to sell their daughter to a brothel.
The fact that they are women is the root of their suffering.
In the Qing Kingdom, if people can't make ends meet and can't even get enough to eat, they can go to the government.
Regardless of gender or age, the government would assign people to hard and tiring jobs, without pay, only providing food.
If you get sick, they will also help you get treatment.
Of course, if a disease is incurable, then so be it.
This can be considered as giving poor families a way to survive.
However, some women voluntarily sold themselves into brothels so that their families could have a better life.
For various reasons, the prices for prostitution in brothels in the Qing Kingdom are extremely high.
Ordinary people couldn't afford to go even if they sold everything they owned.
Brothels have truly come to the point where they only make money from the wealthy.
The Jiaofangsi was a government-run brothel, and the women there were all from the families of officials whose property had been confiscated by the government. Of course, these women joined voluntarily.
If they didn't want to, they would have to go into exile.
This is the case with Ru Meng.
When she was fifteen, her grandfather was investigated for corruption and beheaded. The men were exiled, but she voluntarily entered the Jiaofangsi (a government-run entertainment institution).
After joining the Jiaofangsi (a government-run educational institution), she learned music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and her elderly mother also gave her detailed instructions.
He explained to her in detail the cause and effect of her grandfather's arrest.
There's no way around it; raising a girl costs a lot.
You must not let the girls harbor resentment; they must be willing to serve customers in order to make it last.
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