What was that thing called that Victorian prostutitues got...

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Where all the discharge and hair clumped together and caused a kind of ball of disgustingness in their vulva? I know this is incredibly random but I remember reading about it on here (I believe it was a myth!) and tried to tell someone about it but can't remember the name!

Was lying in bed miserable unable to sleep. This thread has made me snort with laughter especially the thrush tart. Thanks all.

No, not Queen Anne! That’s just the same nonsense about ‘sootikins’ that’s been debunked upthread. This was actual history, a quote relating to one individual woman’s poor hygiene (although the book is in general very sympathetic towards Caroline, as many historians of George IV and Caroline herself are.

How would you know a particular clump of grot on a grubby church floor had fallen out of someone's foof?

I’m searching online in vain at the moment for the book - although I know it’s on the shelves at home. There’s a possibility it was in Prince of Pleasure, a biography of George, as the publication date fits for my memory of when I read it.

Er, they got pennies, poor things. Sootikins, no, invention of some pervy old misogynist.

How would you know a particular clump of grot on a grubby church floor had fallen out of someone's foof?

Exellent point @WeshMaGueule, & I suspect the "knowledge" was brought to us from the same stable which convinced the credulous that Original Sin was all Eve's fault.

..makes mental note to never call any future pets Sooty..

Pepys may have believed in sootykins, but that doesn't mean they happened. I've read biographies of Pepys and the man couldn't sit in church without sexually harassing women! He had very poor judgment indeed.

I suppose they might have obvious pubes in, if you were looking that closely.

I just googled it!

Glad I had already finished dinner before reading this.

YIKES!!!!

Didnt Barry Humphries come up with it? (thats abut the 5th time ive mentioned him this week after saying nothing about him for years)

Im really interested in the history of Victorian 'down and outers'. This history of jack the rippers victims is really interesting, they didnt have the backgrounds you might at all expect.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002s41

If a woman didn't wash for months on end, menstrual fluid and urination would rinse out accumulated debris in the area.

You'd be more likely to accumulate sootykins in your bellybutton.

😂 @PrincessHoneysuckle

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