Virgins especially commanded a higher price, at least partly due to the lower risk of catching an STI at a time when antibiotics were not yet available.
[4] At age 36,[4] by now an alcoholic and gravely ill, Jarrett was taken in by Florence Booth of the London Salvation Army.
With her knowledge of prostitution and brothels, she went into dangerous areas and persuaded women and girls to come with her to Winchester where she helped care for them.
Following a series of articles published by Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette, entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, which received an immediate public outcry resulting in the beginnings of the Social purity movement as rallies were held across the country and a petition sent to the House of Commons.
However, despite public support behind them, both she and Stead were arrested on charges of abduction and indecent assault (possibly arranged by George Cavendish-Bentinck, a politician implicated in the sexual trafficking of boys in the Cleveland Street Scandal.