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In 1872, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie Claflin exposed the rape of two 15-year old girls after a masked ball, saying there was no road left open to them but "the prostitute's road to hell". Was that true? Would they have had other options? NSFW

by /u/palmtreesplz in /r/AskHistorians

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