[nhebb]

The whole thing is pretentiously written blather.

> This is not to say that all women who appeared in public were assumed to be sexually available, nor that middle-class women were forbidden from the streets. The streets enabled a wide variety of encounters, dependent on the particular circumstances in which they occurred.

Such insight!

[mandelbrotwurst]

Wow. Yeah, what a convoluted way to say "many things happen in the streets".