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Then in both England and Germany, coffeehouses were seen as such places of disrepute that women were banned from going to them!

To be fair to our German and British friends, depending on how coffee was introduced (sailors/pirates), they may actually have been places of disrepute.....



And even if they were places of disrepute, there were a lot of them, and people went to them.




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