http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1732953937770017672#
Sex in a cold climate: the story of the Magdalene Movement, the institutionalization of women who were “fallen” because they had sold their body to sex.
As the phenomenon became more widespread, it extended beyond prostitution, to unmarried mothers, developmentally challenged women and abused girls. Even young girls who were considered too promiscuous and flirtatious, or too beautiful, were sent to an asylum. [via wikipedia]