![]() ![]() However, the author is raising awareness of this issue also because “the time has not necessarily left us”. Virgins were at great risk during this time period because there was the mistaken notion that if a man suffering from syphilis slept with a virgin, he would be cured. A bounty will be paid for a virgin, making these young girls sought after by the ‘madams’ of the ‘boarding houses’. But what will be expected of her strikes fear in her heart. ![]() Escaping the filth and squalor of the tenements, Moth finds herself in a brothel with her needs suddenly cared for and her belly full. The year is 1871 and the place is New York City. ![]() Moth is a desperately poor 12 year old girl sold into servitude by her mother. So starts The Virgin Cure, a poignant novel about a difficult subject, but handled gently by master storyteller Ami McKay. “I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.” ![]()
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