Blog 6 – Prostitution during the Victorian Era

One of the major causes for the increase in prostitution during the Victorian Era was there was more women than men . England’s population double fast . The were many poor working class people who needed to find jobs to earn money for their families and necessities. With there people more women than men , many women had to find jobs to survive for themselves . There was more people than jobs so people began to struggle . Single mothers found a way to prostitution that can make them more money than other jobs . That was there go to . This was the only way the would survive . Today things are some what different . People still see prostitution as a problem and blame women who do prostitution. In the Victorian Era it was seen wrongfully for them to work like this because upper class women didn’t have the need for this. They saw women lose their value . Today women have more options than prostitution. They are better jobs and better pay for them to choice from and not have one option only .