Prostitutes in Switzerland were punished in 1790 by being harnessed to a sewage cart

Switzerland, prostitutes punished by being harnessed to a night-soil collector's cart, 1790. That is to say, this was not simply a dustman's wagon but rather an emptier of cesspits. The contents of privies and cesspools were tipped out onto the streets, and the offending women had to shovel this muck into the cart's body, and then, harnessed to the cart, haul it along on their own backs. If one regards this as community service, it is certainly preferable to prison; still, I suspect the girls would have preferred to get off with public censure.