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A new conscience and an ancient evil
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Year: 1912 Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.,

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"The following material, much of which has been published in McClure's Magazine, was written, not from the point of view of the expert, but because of my own need for a counter-knowledge to a bewildering mass of information which came to me through the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago. The reports which its twenty field officers daily brought to its main office adjoining Hull House became to me a revelation of the dangers implicit in city conditions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life. As head of the Publication Committee, I read the original documents in a series of special investigations made by the Association on dance halls, theatres, amusement parks, lake excursion boats, petty gambling, the home surroundings of one hundred Juvenile Court children and the records of four thousand parents who clearly contributed to the delinquency of their own families. The Association also collected the personal histories of two hundred department-store girls, of two hundred factory girls, of two hundred immigrant girls, of two hundred office girls, and of girls employed in one hundred hotels and restaurants. While this experience was most distressing, I was, on the other hand, much impressed and at times fairly startled by the large and diversified number of people to whom the very existence of the white slave traffic had become unendurable and who promptly responded to any appeal made on behalf of its victims. City officials, policemen, judges, attorneys, employers, trades unionists, physicians, teachers, newly arrived immigrants, clergymen, railway officials, and newspaper men, as under a profound sense of compunction, were unsparing of time and effort when given an opportunity to assist an individual girl, to promote legislation designed for her protection, or to establish institutions for her rescue. I therefore venture to hope that in serving my own need I may also serve the need of a rapidly growing public when I set down for rational consideration the temptations surrounding multitudes of young people and when I assemble, as best I may, the many indications of a new conscience, which in various directions is slowly gathering strength and which we may soberly hope will at last successfully array itself against this incredible social wrong, ancient though it may be"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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Prostitution --- Sex Work. --- History.

Prostitution in der römischen Antike
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ISBN: 3050032561 9783050032566 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berlin Akademie


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Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean world : the economics of sex in the late antique and medieval Middle East
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ISBN: 9781784536527 1784536520 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,

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This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale in those chief centres of the late antique and medieval East, whether in Arabia, Egypt, Syria or Anatolia. Ranging extensively from 300 CE to 1500 (or from the reign of Theodosius to the early Ottoman period), Gary Leiser meticulously examines the available sources and argues for a reappraisal of the so-called oldest profession. He suggests that it was never prohibited; that there was remarkable continuity between Christian and Muslim rule; and that prostitution was institutionalized as a 'service industry' at various times. Indicating that sex work in the East had its own distinctive character and meanings (for example, that it was taxed from the time of Caligula onwards and that prostitutes were expected to retain tax receipts), the book brings continually fresh insights to a controversial subject.


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Regulating sex for sale : prostitution policy reform and the UK
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ISBN: 1847421059 9781847421050 9781847421067 9781847421074 1847421067 9786612561979 1447303164 1282561979 1847421075 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press,

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Regulating Sex for Sale provides a detailed analysis and critical reflection on the processes, assumptions and contradictions shaping the UK's emerging prostitution policy. It examines the total package of reforms and proposals that have been introduced in this area since May 2000.


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Social work and prostitution : professional approaches in theory and practice
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ISBN: 3658377607 3658377615 Year: 2022 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer,

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La prostitution en Espagne de l'époque des Rois catholiques à la IIe république
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ISBN: 2251605266 9782251605265 Year: 1994 Volume: 526 2 Publisher: Paris Belles Lettres

La vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes : 1830-1930
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ISBN: 2010130510 9782010130519 Year: 1990 Volume: *4 Publisher: Paris : Hachette,

La Prostitution en Grèce et à Rome
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ISSN: 02458829 ISBN: 2251338101 9782251338101 Year: 1990 Volume: *11


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Prostitution i Helsingfors : en studie i kvinnokontroll.
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ISBN: 9519498710 Year: 1990 Publisher: Åbo Åbo akademis förlag


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Designing prostitution policy : intention and reality in regulating the sex trade
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ISBN: 9781447324263 1447324269 9781447335191 1447335198 1447324242 1447335198 1447324250 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bristol, UK Policy Press

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Most discussions about approaches to regulating prostitution occur at the national level-battles, for example, between prohibition and legalization. In reality, however, the impact of prostitution is felt most keenly at the local level, and it is local measures that can have the greatest effect. This book explores various approaches to regulating prostitution and other sex work at the local level, analyzing their aims and outcomes and offering guidance on designing effective regulations through available policy instruments.

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