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Girls Lot Upper Class Men Exploited Serving Female

Question A lot of upper class men exploited their serving girls and female staff by having sex with them.
Answer Many of these women and girls became pregnant by them, but had to keep the relationship a secret. If it was discovered that they were pregnant, they would lose their jobs. Their only hope was for the father of the child to marry them, but this rarely happened.

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