Secret Prostitution Rings
In The Handmaid’s Tale, June or “Offred” is shocked to learn that the Commanders of Gilead pretend to be religious and pious when they are at home, but they actually indulge in secret nightclubs filled with drinking and prostitution called Jezebel’s. Offred finds her friend Moira, who is actually a lesbian, forced into sleeping with men. Her new nickname is “Ruby”. In the real world, it is no secret that sex trafficking exists, but there was one time in society where there really was a secret sex ring used by government officials.
In Nazi Germany, soldiers were allowed to go to secret brothels filled with women from conquered territories who were being forced into prostitution. The chief of the SS police, Heinrich Himmler, believed that prostitution was completely necessary for the morale of the Nazi soldiers. In the 1930s, brothels were state-regulated, and women were forced into medical exams to make sure they were clean of STI’s before having sex with men.