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Taken from Melbourne's Herald Sun

Brothel run to pay bills
THE madam of an illegal brothel wanted to "maintain a lifestyle" when she opened the inner-city business without a licence, a court heard yesterday. Carol Stewart, 60, set up the Melbourne Podiatry and Therapy Centre in 2005 when she fell on hard times after separating from her husband and needed money to support her children. Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard her employees were naked while they massaged and masturbated male clients and that the sex service would be included in their bills. Ms Stewart managed the centre between October last year and January, hiring staff, paying wages and organising rosters even though the Bourke St premises were listed as being owned by her son. Prosecutor Sen-Constable Justin Shaw said when Ms Stewart registered the business in February 2005 she gave a fake name to Consumer Affairs. Ms Stewart pleaded guilty to recklessly carrying out a prostitution business without a licence and producing a false document.
Defence lawyer Rob Melasecca said his client was a mature woman with no prior convictions and an excellent background who thought "this might be a suitable industry to maintain a lifestyle". He said she used a false name when registering the business because "she didn't want to be known by her friends and others as someone running that kind of massage". Mr Melasecca said Ms Stewart had been a model as well as an accomplished equestrian competitor in dressage and show jumping. He said she had wrongly believed that with other brothels operating in the area without a licence the city council would turn a blind eye to her business. Magistrate Duncan Reynolds said the offences were clearly serious but took into account that Ms Stewart had no criminal convictions. Ms Stewart was fined $3500 without conviction for operating without a licence and $500 for producing a false document.

 

Brilliant! Could be just the ticket for a beleaguered NHS service in the UK, Syd. And a wonderful justification for a fee hike in private practice too! Think LaTrobe would certainly benefit from having Ms Stewart on their academic rota! You're not acquainted perchance??

 

Good to hear from you Mark. And I am afraid I do not know the lady in question but was by chance a visitor to the Copenhagen Sex Museum recently. There was a couple of excellent sections on the history of sexology and Danish prostitution. As you may know I have a section on sumptuary laws and prostitutution in the academic reference tome, The History of Prostitution. The punishments given to working girls in Denmark was horrendous. The Copenhagen Museum is worth a visit but I prefered the Museum of Sex Machines in Prague, where there is a pair of poulaines on display.

Cheers
Syd

 

I know i'm going to regret asking but what are Poulaines?

Robert

 

Very long and pointed toed shoes worn in the Middle Ages by men. Shoes for European men got longer and longer from the 11th to the 15th century (possibly as an influence of Islam). No reasoned explanation has ever been given for the phenomenon but the shoes were stuffed with moss and grass and used as sex toys by courting couples. Banned by Papel Bulls and Sumptuary Laws to prevent lower classes from wearing poulaines the shoes continued to got longer and longer until they were 61cms longer than the foot itself. By this time Europe was devastated by syphilis and it is possible, shoes with extensions were used as safe sex and birth control. As the std epidemic moved to China, foot binding became more prevalent and feet were used for safe sex by the Chinese.

You will get some more info at <http://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/history.html> but be warned once you have read this you will never trust yourself alone with a pair of shoes again.

Also William Rossi's book Sex life of the foot and shoe is toe curlingly funny and the books by Beverley Jackson, including Spledid Slippers are par excellent.

cameron

 

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Has anyone in Melbourne actually heard of her? She is not registered in Victoria. Or is it a typo/mis-reporting in the media?