A HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION & WOMEN TRAFFICKING IN BINI OF THE 17TH CENTURY


By Olfert Dapper
(A Dutch Doctor & Historian, 1668)

"After a man dies all the wives with whom he has had sexual relations become the King's and are given again in marriage by him, but those with whom he has not slept go the son who may keep them or marry them to others..

It happens also that the King sometimes does not give these women in marriage but makes them regetaires who must annually contribute to his treasury a certain number of cowries. These women who have nothing to fear from men's authority, choose as many lovers as they like and play the LovePeddler lustily , as married women also do sometimes. These regetaires when they become pregnant outside marriage and bear sons, are freed from having to make these payments, but if one of them has a daughter the King gives the girl as wife to someone or other.

There are also great regetaires to whom the smaller must present annual accounts, and likewise the great regetaires must present annual accounts to the Fiadors1, or justices, who alone show them to the King..

After a man's wife has been in childbed, he has no sexual relations with her until the child is one - and-a-half years old and the child can walk. But if he comes to know that his wife has meanwhile been making shift with another, he makes a complaint to the Fiadors. "

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From Olfert Dapper (1668) pp495 - 505, a doctor of medicine, spent most of his life in Amsterdam, a history of which he also wrote.

Insult of the highest order

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