Linda
Written on Nov 1, 2015
Harlot is a good story, and it especially shows how it was difficult for women to be empowered and take charge of their own lives and destinies in the past. When Jessica's father died and left her with only debts, she didn't know what to do. The house would have to be sold, as would most of her other possessions. Caleb had been gone for two years already, and she hadn't heard from him in a long time, and had to find a way to get through this on her own. When someone presented her with what seemed like the only possibility to find a place to live, and enough money to live with, she took it. Even if that possibility was to give her virginity to a man in exchange for a house...
When Caleb got back to town after learning that Jessica's father had passed away, the first thing he heard about her what that she was a whore now, working from her very own whorehouse on the outskirts of town. And to say he was angry to find his angelic girl opening her legs to strangers for money is an understatement!