# Question about turn of the centry prostitutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 11, 2001, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752 "2001-11-11T11:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752/41 "2001-11-20T01:21:41Z")
**DDG** if you email me at [samclem@aol.com](mailto:samclem@aol.com) I’ll provide you with some further proof. I’m sorry if that seems cryptic and not exactly open, but it is necessary in this case. It reveals a confidence that I would feel comfortable sharing with my feathered friend, but not comfortable posting to a public board. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752/42 "2001-11-21T06:36:02Z")
**DDG** said > [@](#): > > That whole “Malay” thing sounds to me like the kind of thing that you’d hear in a bar, the way the OP heard about prostitutes having their teeth pulled. Wow! That’s just what Dr. Grayling said to me when I emailed him. > [@](#): > > As to the Malay women: I’ve seen them with my own > eyes, but haven’t experienced them personally, though know quite a few who > have. It is (or was, on several of the occasions I visited) the practice > among Malay prostitutes in the Cape in South Africa to approach your car > when you stopped at traffic lights, and smile and indicate their gapped > teeth, and offer a blow-job. The practice was taken as a datum there. - Dr. Grayling also offers info that the penises are “chipped off”, not simply marble dildos. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752/43 "2001-11-21T07:16:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bernse \* > \*\*Actually from what I understand, oral sex wasn’t very common in North America (or even GB) until after WW2. > \*\* Ahem… I wasn’t there, but I do have some knowledge in this area _cough_. Bottom line: hooey. stoid ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752/44 "2001-11-21T15:28:40Z")
Well, Sam, thanks for going to the trouble to e-mail Grayling. 🙂 I’ll pass on the “dildos” thing, because I don’t want it to turn into a “did not”, “did too”, thing. However, I still have some strong quibbles on the Cape Malay thing. His entire quote in the original article was this: > [@](#): > > Among the Malays who live in the Cape in South Africa, it is a sign of female beauty to have the four upper and lower front teeth missing. This is because it facilitates fellatio, the chief form of contraception in the community. Okay, he’s got four statements here, none of which I can regard as proven, or as supported by anything on the Web other than Grayling’s article. 1. Among the Cape Malays, it is a sign of female beauty to have the four upper and lower front teeth missing. 2. Cape Malay women are in the habit of having their four upper and lower front teeth removed. 3. The reason Cape Malay women have their four upper and lower front teeth removed is to facilitate fellatio. 4. In the Cape Malay community, fellatio is the main form of contraception. His train of thought is, “The Cape Malay community uses fellatio as their main means of contraception, therefore Cape Malay women have their teeth pulled to facilitate this, therefore having teeth missing is considered a sign of beauty.” His e-mailed response, however, is dealing with Cape Malay _prostitutes_, which I would not consider representative of the Cape Malay “community”. It’s like saying, “The Hamburg community has largely given up wearing real fur” and then trying to support this statement by saying, “I was once approached by prostitutes on the Reeperbahn, and they were all wearing faux fur.” See? The hookers of the Reeperbahn aren’t representative of the Hamburg community. And this doesn’t address the issue of standards of female beauty in the Cape Malay community, or of their methods of contraception. So. Sorry to seem so pissy about this. :o And, BTW, you don’t need to keep e-mailing him. I don’t want to get involved in an “are not”, “are too” kind of thing, unless he’s got some kind of cites besides, “Well, I was there and that’s what I was told.” It doesn’t work like that here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-turn-of-the-centry-prostitutes/92752.md?page=2)