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  Western researcher probes Forest City's thriving sex trade from 1850-85

  It was the late 19th century. Industrialists drilled for oil at the forks of the Thames River, breweries and flour mills and major banks lined the downtown core, and a moral panic over London’s rampant and burgeoning sex trade began to fester.

  By 1880, prostitution in the Forest City — then an entertainment stopgap between Toronto and Detroit — was at a sudden boiling point, said Margaret Ross, a researcher at Western University.

  Ross, a masters candidate in history who’s delivering a public lecture Wednesday at Lawson Hall at 10 a.m., has extensively researched London’s thriving sex trade from 1880-1885 as part of her thesis.

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