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Some comments on the history of prostitution, Jack the Ripper, and the murder of Lord Errol in WW2 Kenya.

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ADVISORY:  The Content Below is Somewhat Explicit.    One of my darker passions has always been crime.  I am guilty of watching those true crime documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime.  Are you? So, now I shall turn my time, albeit briefly, to an historic crime that has most likely been solved recently through the study of DNA:  Jack the Ripper. Has there ever been a serial killer who inspired more imagination? Ted Bundy or even Charles Manson perhaps.  For some reason, these freaks have become part of the darker part of the American imagination.  I find it odd, perhaps (?) that these men were perpetrating such horrors almost exclusively against women. Why? Well we have ever been perceived as the 'weaker sex', historically.  Easy prey for some monsters.  This, at least, is a past perception.  In more recent times, I believe that this conception of women is changing.  We also have some power in a physical and mental sens...