Perhaps few risked incurring church leaders’ wrath as much as Charles Ellis Johnson, who when he wasn’t taking pictures of Latter-day Saint leaders and temples, was shooting portraits of “scandalous burlesque” and women in various states of undress.
wrote that in 1874 an estimated 1 in 18.5 people in the United States had syphilis and roughly half the prostitutes in mining towns were afflicted with the disease for which there was no cure at the time. Stone said working girls often were raped and suffered other forms of physical violence and cruelty.
Stone said Clinton was lying. He had already declared Flint’s home a public nuisance and ordered the “church-dominated police force” and Latter-day Saint businessman Brigham Young Hampton, a onetime constable and a bodyguard for Brigham Young, to abate her residence. “The lascivious evils of Commercial Street have never equaled the lasciviousness of marrying mother and daughter, two sisters, or many other of the abominations of polygamic intercourse,” The Tribune stated, “yet this species of licentiousness is called religion.”
Dora B. Topham, aka Belle London, who became the “queen of Ogden’s underworld," including Ogden's Electric Alley and the stockade in Salt Lake City. London bought and operated private parlors, legitimate businesses, bordellos and numerous other real estate assets in the bustling city. She also bought property from a Latter-day Saint businessman and expanded her illicit sex trade by creating Electric Alley, located behind 25th Street.Belle’s relationship with Ogden Police Chief Thomas Browning drew the ire of The Tribune, which accused him of protecting and profiting off of the illegal businesses.
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