Dr. Bonhoeffer found that the fathers of the prostitutes whom he examined practiced the following professions:[105]
Breslau.
| Manufacture and trades | 72 | 42 | |
| Unskilled workmen | 32 | 19 | |
| Lower officials | 24 | 14 | |
| Commerce | 13 | 8 | |
| Transportation | 12 | 7 | |
| Lodginghouse-keepers | 6 | 3 | .5 |
| Agriculture | 8 | 5 | |
| Traveling musicians | 2 | 1 | |
| Higher officials | 1 | 0 | .5 |
| 170 | 100 | .0 |
Dr. Fiaux gives the following figures:[106]
Russia.
| Classes from Which Prostitutes Are Recruited. | Percentage. |
| Peasants | 47.5 |
| Bourgeois | 36.3 |
| Wives and daughters of soldiers | 7.2 |
| Other classes | 4.7 |
| Foreign subjects | 1.5 |
| Nobles and daughters of employes | 1.8 |
| Merchants and considerable citizens | .5 |
| Daughters of members of the clergy | .5 |
| 100.0 |
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As the table given above shows, the Russian prostitutes are recruited in greater numbers from the bourgeoisie than in the other countries of Europe. The Russian bourgeoisie, however, cannot be compared with that of other countries. It is more like the petty bourgeoisie, as the following quotation given by Dr. Fiaux proves: “The committee considers that the great mass of the women registered belong to the lower classes.” The fact that, of 100 prostitutes, 83 come from poor families, 16 from well-to-do families, and one from a rich family, proves the same thing.
After having given the professions of 3,332 fathers of prostitutes,[107] Parent-Duchatelet arrives at the following conclusion: … “prostitutes born in Paris all proceed from the artisan class, and … it is not true, as some persons have assured me, that there are to be found among them a number belonging to very distinguished families; …”[108]
In speaking of the prostitutes born outside of Paris he says: “… there is a mass of facts more than sufficient to prove to us that, as far as the class of society from which prostitutes come is concerned, the departments do not differ in any way from Paris; we see upon the last table as upon the first, only working people and those little favored by fortune, who consequently cannot take care of the education of their daughters, nor watch them, and still less provide for their needs when they have reached a certain age, …”[109]