Phoebe Doty

Phoebe Doty

Phoebe Doty was an American madam and prostitute. In 1821, she entered a bordello in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. Over the next three years, she accrued $600 in personal belongings.Gilfoyle 72.] For the next decade or so, Doty moved from house to house, eventually settling in a brothel on Church Street. There she was valued at $800.

By 1839, Doty had opened her own brothel on Leonard Street. At decade's end, she was valued at $2000. During the 1840s, Doty was a prominent prostitute and madam. She held lavish balls at her brothel to attract new customers and to mingle with the upper classes. Her high profile earned her notoriety in the penny press. The "Libertine" suggested that Doty and another madam, Adeline Miller, should rent the Park Theatre and talk about their lives. It predicted that "the house would be crammed if the "entrance" was five dollars a "head". The bigger the harlot now-a-days the more money is made." [Quoted in Gilfoyle 73. Emphasis in the original.]

Notes

References

* Gilfoyle, Timothy J. (1992). "City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790—1920". New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.


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