Tag: Alluring

Back in the day, I remember my fingers furiously typing away, wrestling with a massive, sprawling codebase. It was the era of the monoliths, when code, much like castles of old, was built stone by stone into a towering entity of impressive complexity. Fast forward a few years, and the buzzword on...

For the last five years, I’ve researched, written about, and wondered about Ah Toy, the first Chinese brothel madam in San Francisco. She arrived in 1849 from China, lured by the news of gold and risking everything for a new life. Then her husband, with whom she was traveling, died. She was on...

The true origin of fishnet stockings or pantyhose is hard to pinpoint. The earliest mention of “fishnet clothing” actually goes back to one of Aesop’s Fables in the early 1900s, “The Peasant’s Wise Daughter”. In the story the king tells a peasant’s daughter ...