S2 E10: Olga Hangs Up Her Whip
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Doris had made her living as "Olga" - a dominatrix alter ego charging men handsomely for sex involving corsets, whips and "unusual methods". But when she married aged businessman (and former client) Henri Jouannet, she'd promised to give it all up.
The coming of war put a strain on the couple's finances and their relationship - and Doris secretly returned to selling sex. But the trade had changed - instead of seeing her regular clients, "Olga" now meets strangers on the street... including The Blackout Ripper.
Further reading:
Billock, Jennifer. ‘Five Hotels That Were Occupied by the Military During World War II’, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 October 2019
Laite, Julia. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885 - 1960 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
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| 1:20.8 | And the large clock outside Cafe Monaco told her it had just gone to in the morning, time |
| 1:27.5 | to go home. |
| 1:29.7 | An airman approached her, a man with rather sharp, pointed features beneath a sweep of dark |
| 1:36.4 | hair. |
| 1:37.7 | Which way are you going? |
| 1:39.0 | They were heading roughly in the same direction and so the woman agreed to share her cab with |
| 1:43.6 | him. |
| 1:44.6 | I should have been back by 11 o'clock. |
| 1:46.4 | The airman murmured inside the vehicle, but he cannot have been very concerned about |
| 1:51.3 | being AWOL. |
| 1:52.3 | For he then asked, |
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