Before Match.com and Tinder, there were mail-order brides. A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage. In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas on the Eastern seaboard to marry men in Western frontier lands.
Louise and Martine Fokkens, two 70-year-old twin sisters who have been prostitutes in Amsterdam for over 50 years, have decided to retire. They estimate that they have slept with about 355,000 men between the two of them. The twins are confident their income from film rights will keep them solvent in the years of retirement ahead.