..........how the fukk does a stranger just adopt a 16 year old girl like that? And her mom allowed it? Very bizarre story.
The same questions I have - but like I few people mentioned in the thread money and desperation. But as a mother myself, I can’t see it - like ever, me literally giving my daughter to a strange man for sexual intent (because at the end of the day, that’s what it is- a high class call girl or giving your own child out to the highest bidder). But if you look at It historically-a lot of these model agencies, gymnastics and ballet troupes started out as a way to entice white men through suggestive imagery as sexualization of minors in white society. Ballet had earlier nefarious beginnings - I used to dance ballet and studied composers, musical compositions when I was younger (inspired by misty copeland) but a lot of them were perverts which I found out through research.
Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th Century Ballerinas
Wealthy men turned the famous Paris Opera Ballet into a brothel.
the model for the 1879 painting,
L’Etoile, that depicts that tense moment. But it’s likely that she was a prostitute. Sex work was part of ballerinas’ realities during the 19th century, an era in which money, power and prostitution mingled in the glamorous and not-so-glamorous backstage world of the Paris Opera.
The Paris Opera Ballet, founded in the 17th century, was the world’s first professional ballet company, and continues as one of the preeminent outfits today. Throughout the 19th century, it raised the bar for dance—but on the backs of many exploited young women.
Often malnourished and dressed in hand-me-downs, the “pet*ts rats” of the ballet were vulnerable to social and sexual exploitation. And the wealthy male subscribers of the Paris Opera—nicknamed abbonés—were often on hand to exploit them.
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The ballet is…what the bar-room is to many a large hotel,”wroteScribner’s Magazine in 1892, “the chief paying factor, the one from which the surplus profits come.” Men subscribed to the opera not for the music, but for the beautiful ballerinas who danced twice per show—and, behind the scenes, they bought sexual favors from the women they ogled on stage.
(Sounds familiar - white men after rail thin prepubescent girls and young women. There’s always a theme in those industries whether it’s modeling, acting, ballet - the elite wAnt tall, thin, child like features, skinny and malnourished looks are better and lack of family structure)
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'It's like a cult': how sexual misconduct permeates the world of ballet