I’d like to leave New Orleans out of this, since it was not quite the same as the rest of the Old South. But what about the genteel, respectable cities like Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, etc.
It seems discrete prostitution was accepted everywhere, as it was understood the men had needs not to be met by nice ladies. But, in a time and place when using the same telephone or spoon as a Back person, was there a stigma against inserting ones penis into one?
This famous quote from Mary Chestnut’s diary is pretty likely to come up, so I’ll post it first.
Short answer, no. Black women existed to be used.
You don’t have to respect someone to have sex with them.
Being sexually attracted to someone of a different race does not mean that you’re not racist.
I’m wondering if visiting a prostitute of any color was ever regarded as unseemly in the Jim Crow South.
Since Jim Crow lasted until the 1960s, I’m sure it got that way at some point.