I wonder if these women would have posed if they'd known that 100+ years later their pics would be posted around the world?https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1161005000476303360 …
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Certainly there's no informed consent here, but obviously they are long dead, so maybe it doesn't matter. The extent to which we need to respect the wishes of the dead, or even worry about their wishes, is a complex question, about which I don't have a properly worked out view.
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Presumably there's a philosophical literature on this sort of issue, but I haven't read it, so it'd be daft to offer an opinion.
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I wonder how some of them felt at the time? Remember how women’s lives were constrained. We should at least not accept uncritically any cutesifying of the historic sex trade.
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Well yeah. Agency is important, but naive to suppose there weren't often pressures in play that effectively rendered the choices people made not really choices at all.
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How strange it would be if at the same time as people argue for confronting the British history of slavery, we share unthinkingly for entertainment what may often be the mementoes of de facto sexual slavery.
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In 2012/13 had a series called, "Facemining" which was intended to raise these sorts of questionspic.twitter.com/6wa6BD1Iog
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