The History of Honky

I always wondered where does the term “honky” came from. Through research, I found out that it has a very interesting and kinda funny history with roots stemming from the early beginnings of prostitution in the United States.
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Prostitution is an industry that’s found in every culture due to its misogyny and the, then, level of respect shown to women. It was legal and available for the elite as the poor had no means to spend frivolously. Before prostitution was made illegal in the United States in 1910, this widely-used service had a very specific target market. Back then in the early days of confederacy, there were only one community which had the currency and power to obtain those services, white men.
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Before the Emancipation Proclamation was formally issued, the black community was enslaved. So, black men were not free to obtain those services. Sadly, their wives, daughters and mothers were providing those services and they hardly showed any connection for fear of separation, punishment or worse. Affection was shown only in the cover of night.
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History did record that “white slaves” were also sold into this industry. This term refers solely to the sexual enslavement of white women around the world, which gradually came to be used as a euphemism for prostitution, as opposed to referring to white men, as even the poor, working white male has always received a salary and some form of respect, even if it was substantially less than the…