‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history | Tom Seymour | Society | The Guardian

‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history | Tom Seymour | Society | The Guardian



‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history | Tom Seymour | Society | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/04/victorian-sexual-exploitation-of-poor-girls-isnt-history



“We may think we have moved on from Victorian attitudes, but we have not,” Mathers says. “The Rotherham report show that it is often children in care who are abused. The police justified their inaction by using terms like ‘undesirables’, ‘deviant’ and ‘promiscuous’ in their reports. This culture, which assumes there is a class of young girls ‘asking for it’, is the chief reason why such abuse was able to continue unchecked. Butler would have recognised it: the culture of fallen women.”