While the explanation of the social order of the "Soiled Doves" was interesting, I found the constant judgemental harping on how they ALL ended up badly a bit hard to take. Anyone who has read first hand accounts of pioneer women in the 1800's knows that NONE of them had it easy. Lawfully wedded wives were subjected to loneliness, abuse, death in childbirth and the same diseases that afflicted the prostitutes of the day. And drug addiction was extremely common among 'respectable' women as well as the soiled doves through opiates legally available at any drugstore as well as alcohol. The 'decent' women's business was merely cloaked from public review in the local paper and not as easy to document.