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attitudes toward non-whites. In the early 19th century British authorities decided it was best to have lower-class white, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Aboriginal women service the prisoners and thereby keep the peace while maintaining strong class lines that isolated British gentlemen and ladies from the lower elements. Prostitution was so profitable that it was easy to circumvent the legal boundaries. When Australians took control by 1900 they wanted a "white Australia" and tried to exclude or expel non-white women who might become prostitutes. However, feminist activists fought against Australia's discriminatory laws that led to varying levels of rights for women, races, and classes. By 1939 new attitudes toward racial harmony began to surface. These were inspired by white Australians to rethink their racist policies and adopt more liberal residency laws that did not focus on sexual or racial issues.
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anti-prostitution activism. Gambling and prostitution were central to life in these western towns, and only later, as the female population increased, reformers moved in and other civilizing influences arrived, did prostitution become less blatant and less common. After a decade or so the mining towns attracted respectable women who ran boarding houses, organized church societies, and worked as laundresses and seamstresses, all while striving for independent status.
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or city or forced to pay a fine. Scholars attribute this gap between legal theory and practice to the difficulty of proving sexual misconduct, the incentives faced by the state to permit prostitution, and the ambiguity embedded in legal theory on prostitution, given its legal equivalence to the broader category of
1101: 207:, the goddess of purification, steam baths, midwives, filth, and adulterers. Religious authorities believed women should work as prostitutes if they wish, but only on premises guarded by Tlazolteotl. It was believed that Tlazolteotl had the power to incite sexual activity while cleansing the spirit of such acts. 1371:. Prostitutes were licensed by public health officials and were required to maintain weekly inspections for sexually transmitted diseases. However, due to protests and demonstrations organized by women and members of the clergy, Missouri legislators repealed the legislation allowing regulated prostitution. 1470:, was one of the few who achieved "respectable" status. She nursed victims of an influenza epidemic, earning her acceptance in the community and the support of the sheriff. The townspeople were shocked when she was murdered in 1867 and they honoured her with a lavish funeral and hanging of her assailant. 1712:
Beginning in the late 1980s many states increased the penalties for prostitution in cases where the prostitute is knowingly HIV-positive. These laws, often known as felony prostitution laws, require anyone arrested for prostitution to be tested for HIV. If the test comes back positive, the suspect is
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Until the 1890s, madams predominately ran the businesses, after which male pimps took over. This led to a general decline in the treatment of women. It was not uncommon for brothels in Western towns to operate openly, without the stigma that was beginning to emerge in East Coast cities as a result of
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But as for us, we have been taught that to expose newly-born children is the part of wicked men; and this we have been taught lest we should do any one an injury, and lest we should sin against God, first, because we see that almost all so exposed (not only the girls, but also the males) are brought
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found sex work distasteful. Communist governments often took wide-ranging steps to repress prostitution immediately after obtaining power, although the practice always persisted. In the countries that remained nominally communist after the end of the Cold War, especially China, prostitution remained
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was a growth industry that attracted sex workers from around the globe where they were pulled in by the money, despite the harsh and dangerous working conditions and low prestige. Chinese women were frequently sold by their families and taken to the camps as prostitutes and were often forced to send
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In North America, prostitution was seen as a "necessary evil" that aided in marital fidelity, especially as a system that would allow men to obtain sex when their wives did not desire it. D'Emilio and Freedman document that prostitution was not a crime in the early part of the 19th century, and thus
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being one of the most popular saints of the era. The Church used Mary Magdalene's biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes to repent and mend their ways. Simultaneously, religious houses were established with the purpose of providing asylum and encouraging the reformation
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districts sanctioned by the colonial governments. As colonial powers entered the Asian countries, there was an increase in the number of sailors at ports. Merchant ships carried large crews of men, who lacked the company of women for days on end. As these ships docked in Asian ports, like Singapore,
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The Ottoman Empire had a complex and ambiguous legal approach to prostitution. While Islamic law prescribes harsh punishments, such as lashes and stoning, for crimes of illicit sex, most prostitutes did not face capital punishment. Instead, prostitutes were typically banished from their neighborhood
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assists Israelite spies by providing them with information regarding the current socio-cultural and military situation. Rahab was knowledgeable in these matters because of her popularity with the high-ranking nobles. The Israelite spies promised, in exchange for this information, to save her and her
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and was home to three classes of women. The first class of women was only permitted to perform sexual rituals in the temple: the second class had access to the grounds and catered to visitors; and the third and lowest class lived on the temple grounds. The third class was also free to find customers
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In the 1830s, prostitution was becoming more visible in North-American cities, and with the professionalization of police forces, visible prostitutes such as streetwalkers risked arrest. But D'Emilio and Freedman note that raids on brothels were comparatively rare, and prostitution was tolerated in
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during the earlier 16th century may have caused this change in attitude. By the early 16th century the association between prostitutes, plague, and contagion emerged, causing brothels and prostitution to be outlawed by secular authority. Furthermore, outlawing brothels and prostitution was used to
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said several times that he was given or purchased female slaves. They were in effect prostituted; not by being owned by a single man who sold their sexual favors, but by being sold from client to client, and thus frequently changing owners. This solved the ban of prostitution, since it was allowed
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and other classical Indian art traditions. This status allowed them to enjoy high social status. The popularity of devadasis seems to have reached its pinnacle around the 10th and 11th centuries. The rise and fall in the status of devadasis can be seen to be running parallel to the rise and fall of
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had been a prostitute actress before ascending to the purple. However, Justinian's legislation aimed to curb underage female prostitution in 529 and nullified the legality of pimps' contracts with their prostitutes in 535. At the same time, his laws excluded the female employees of taverns and inns
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In much of Northern Europe, a more tolerant attitude could be found towards prostitution and prostitutes also found a fruitful market in the Crusades. However, the general tolerance of prostitution was for the most part reluctant, and many people from the church urged prostitutes to reform. By the
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parts of the country. Although China was a nation of wealth, overpopulation of rural areas resulted in localized poverty. Borderline starvation drove many women out of the rural countryside to the port cities of China, where many of the women who took part in prostitution were either sold into the
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in New Orleans was closed down by the Federal government over local objections. In Deadwood, South Dakota, prostitution, while technically illegal, was tolerated by local residents and officials for decades until the last madam was brought down by state and federal authorities for tax evasion in
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During World War I, in the colonial Philippines, U.S. Armed Forces developed a prostitute management program called the "American Plan" which enabled the military to arrest any woman within five miles of a military cantonment. If found infected, a woman could be sentenced to a hospital or a farm
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While people of all religions in the Ottoman Empire engaged in prostitution, the experiences of prostitutes differed by their religious identity. In the Ottoman Empire, it was illegal for Muslim women to marry or engage sexually with non-Muslim men, while Muslim men could marry non-Muslim women.
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Australian mining camps had a well-developed system of prostitution. City fathers sometimes tried to confine the practice to red-light districts. The precise role prostitution played in various camps depended on the sex ratio in specific population groups of colonial society as well as racial
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Economic necessity drove many into prostitution, particularly those lacking a support system due to divorce, widowhood, or economic downturns. Poor women, previously enslaved women, women from rural areas, and immigrants were noted to enter prostitution out of financial necessity. Engaging in
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Beginning in the 1910s and continuing in some places into the 1950s, the American Plan operated in the United States. Women were told to report to a health officer where they were coerced to submit to an invasive examination. Immigrants, minorities, and the poor were primarily targeted.
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family during the planned military invasion—but only if she kept the details of her contact with them a secret. She would leave a sign on her residence that indicated to the advancing soldiers not to attack the people within. When the people of Israel conquered Canaan, she converted to
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The houses of prostitution found in every mining camp worldwide were famous, especially in the 19th century when long-distance imports of prostitutes became common. Entrepreneurs set up shops and businesses to cater to the miners, and brothels were largely tolerated in mining towns.
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were raised, almost always to become prostitutes. Enslavement for prostitution was sometimes used as a legal punishment for women. Buyers were allowed to inspect naked men and women for sale in private and there was no stigma attached to the purchase of males by a male aristocrat.
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was passed by the US Congress and forbid any importation of women for the purpose of prostitution. The national move to criminalize prostitution was led by Protestant middle-class men and women who participated in the revivalism movement of the 19th century.
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documented in 1793 that prostitutes were distributed by the civil power throughout various villages at a price that was set by civil decree. It was the responsibility of prostitutes to provide services to anyone who could afford the fee. During the
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Accordingly, the law imposed more severe punishments for Muslim women than non-Muslim women accused of prostitution. Nonetheless, many Muslim women engaged in prostitution, mainly working in their homes and public spaces rather than in
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opined that, "if you expel prostitution from society, you will unsettle everything on account of lusts". Religious campaigns against slavery during and after the collapse of the empire turned prostitution back into a business. Under
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fought to repeal these laws, either on the grounds that prostitution should be illegal and therefore not government regulated or because it forced degrading medical examinations upon women. A similar situation existed in the
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defined a prostitute as "a promiscuous woman, regardless of financial elements". The prostitute was considered a "whore ... who available for the lust of many men", and was most closely associated with promiscuity.
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Latin American mining camps also had well-developed systems of prostitution. In Mexico the government tried to protect and idealize middle-class women but made little effort to protect prostitutes in the mining camps.
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The Church's stance on prostitution was three-fold. It included the "acceptance of prostitution as an inevitable social fact, condemnation of those profiting from this commerce, and encouragement for the prostitute to
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broke up, thousands of Eastern European women became prostitutes in China, Western Europe, Israel, and Turkey every year. There are tens of thousands of women from eastern Europe and Asia working as prostitutes in
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In Germany, attempts to develop a comprehensive framework for prostitution in 2017 have been met by fierce opposition from sex workers, with less than 1% of the prostitutes submitting to their registration duty.
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it was common to find increasing efforts to limit legal access to the trade. Boroughs empowered with local governmental authority increasingly ruled that prostitutes were not to ply their trade within the
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also known as a "woman of pleasure" or prostitute. Among the oiran, the tayĆ« (ć€Ș怫) was considered the highest rank of courtesan available only to the wealthiest and highest ranking men. To entertain their
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dancers. As British women began arriving in British India in large numbers from the early to mid-19th century, it became increasingly uncommon for British soldiers to visit Indian prostitutes, and
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illegal but was nonetheless common. In many current or former communist countries, the economic depression brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union led to an increase in prostitution.
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In later years, sacred prostitution and similar classifications for females were known to have existed in Greece, Rome, India, China, and Japan. Such practices came to an end when the emperor
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became a central hub for the trafficking of women, with networks operating both domestically and internationally. Both men and women were involved in trafficking and procuring prostitutes.
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Fischer-TinĂ©, Harald (2003), "'White women degrading themselves to the lowest depths': European networks of prostitution and colonial anxieties in British India and Ceylon ca. 1880–1914",
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tradition in Japan, their main purpose was to professionally entertain their guests. While sex was often incidental, it was not assured contractually. The most popular or highest-class
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has been practiced throughout ancient and modern cultures. Prostitution has been described as "the world's oldest profession", though this is unverifiable, and most likely incorrect.
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In the United States, prostitution was originally widely legal. Prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the 1st wave
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were free to engage prostitutes of either sex without incurring moral disapproval, as long as they demonstrated self-control and moderation in the frequency and enjoyment of sex.
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Records show that male prostitutes were also present in the Ottoman Empire. Most male prostitutes were registered with the state, and they often worked in public bathhouses.
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began to adopt the policy of social segregation, but they continued to keep their brothels full of Indian women. In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was a network of
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is a Nahuatl word that means "house of women". The Cihuacalli was a closed compound with rooms, all looking over a central patio. At the center of the patio was a statue of
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse JĂžnsson, and Hannelore Verbrugge. "For richer, for poorer: marriage and casualized sex in East African artisanal mining settlements".
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In 20th-century African mining camps, prostitution followed the historical patterns developed in the 19th century. They added the theme of casual temporary marriages.
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was home to many shrines, temples, or "houses of heaven", which were dedicated to various deities. These shrines and temples were documented by the Greek historian
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse JĂžnsson, and Hannelore Verbrugge. "Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold-mining settlements".
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thought of it as "only a specific expression of the general prostitution of the laborer", and considered its abolition to be necessary to overcome capitalism.
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Muslims, who make up the majority of Muslims worldwide, believe the practice of nikah mut‘ah was revoked and ultimately forbidden by the second Sunni caliph,
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London Labour and the London Poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work
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industry or willingly joined. Due to their lack of economic stability, parents unable to feed their families often sold their daughters into the industry.
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is named "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth". However, the word "whore" could also be translated as "idolatress".
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Walkowitz, Judith R. "History and the Politics of Prostitution: Prostitution and the Politics of History". in Marlene Spanger and May-Len Skilbrei, eds.,
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custom of the time. Slave boys worked the male brothels in Athens, while free boys who sold their favours risked losing their political rights as adults.
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prostitution was commonly found in urban and suburban contexts. Although all forms of sexual activity outside of marriage were regarded as sinful by the
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and as far as San Francisco in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century to work as prostitutes, courtesans and
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Fisher, Michael H. (2007), "Excluding and Including "Natives of India": Early-Nineteenth-Century British-Indian Race Relations in Britain",
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they were drawn to the market of prostitution. This higher demand for the company of a woman created the need for these brothel districts.
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forbidding clergy from using such establishments and the eventual creation of a separate system of hostels for ecclesiastics and pilgrims.
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brothels (or bawdy houses) were tolerated in American cities and the laws against individual prostitutes were enforced only occasionally.
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prostitution often tainted these women as “disreputable,” which led to their alienation and further limited their economic opportunities.
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in societies where other women did not wear them. Ancient codes regulated the crime of a prostitute that dissimulated her profession.
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of prostitution. Magdalene Homes were particularly popular and peaked in the early 14th century. Over the course of the Middle Ages,
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mining towns, cattle towns, and urban centers in the American east. In 1870, prostitution was legalized and regulated in the city of
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was the first Roman emperor to tax prostitution. It remained for about 450 years before being abolished under the Christian emperor
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In the early 20th century, the problem of regulating prostitution according to modern European models was widely debated in Japan.
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese visitors and their South Asian (and sometimes African) crew members often engaged in
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Jenness, Valerie (1990). "From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem",
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Tambe, Ashwini (2005), "The Elusive Ingénue: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of European Prostitution in Colonial Bombay",
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in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was initially fairly common for British soldiers to engage in inter-ethnic
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were as famous for their company as their beauty, and some of these women charged extraordinary sums for their services.
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could often pick and choose between the best of their suitors. They contributed to music, dance, theatre, film, and the
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was the name given to the controlled buildings where prostitution was permitted by political and religious authorities.
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from punishment for adultery given that prostitution was considered an essential part of their employment; this led to
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Hindu temples. Due to the destruction of temples by Islamic invaders, the status of the temples fell very quickly in
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alleged that three out of four men between the ages of 20 and 50 who have visited Asia or Africa have paid for sex.
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The trials of Nina McCall: sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison "promiscuous" women
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Sabev, Orlin (2021). "How to Manage the Unmanageable: Inconsistent Ottoman Strategies to Prevent Prostitution."
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Roseann Cohen, "Extractive Desires: The Moral Control of Female Sexuality at Colombia's Gold Mining Frontier".
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Sheldon Garon, "The World's Oldest Debate? Prostitution cactus and the State in Imperial Japan, 1900-1945",
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Three prostitutes in a doorway on Rue Asselin, in Paris's red-light district, ca. 1924–25, photographed by
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Inca prostitutes were segregated from other people and lived under the supervision of a government agent.
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Kalpana Kannabiran, "Judiciary, Social Reform and Debate on 'Religious Prostitution' in Colonial India".
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presided. While prostitution was widely accepted, prostitutes were often considered shameful. Most were
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William E. French, "Prostitutes and guardian angels: women, work, and the family in Porfirian Mexico".
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Male prostitution was also common in Greece. Adolescent boys usually practiced it, a reflection of the
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In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of
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In ancient Greece, both women and men engaged in prostitution. The Greek word for prostitute is
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for the estimated 200,000 mostly Korean and Chinese women who were forced into prostitution in
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texts describe who they were, their prices, how many times they could bring their customers to
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under Roman law received. Prostitution thus reflects the ambivalent attitudes of Romans toward
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By the end of the 15th-century attitudes began to harden against prostitution. An outbreak of
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who helped wash clients by soaping and scrubbing their bodies. They also were referred to as
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are the earliest recorded mention of prostitution as an occupation. These describe a temple
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was signed. In this convention, some nations declared reservations about prostitution.
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also often refers to prostitutes. Real-world practices are documented by provisions of
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A new legal approach to prostitution emerged at the end of the 20th century, termed
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their earnings back to the family in China. In Virginia City, Nevada, a prostitute,
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crew, along with African crewmembers in some cases. In the 16th century, the local
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emerged in the late 20th century as a controversial aspect of Western tourism and
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International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children
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who met their customers while walking (and then worked in their houses), and the
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was banned during the 1960s and 1970s, and later replaced by human trafficking.
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Those that will not work, comprising; Prostitutes. Thieves. Swindlers. Beggars
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who catered to the nobility of South Asia, particularly during the era of the
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during 1494, which later swept across Europe, may have originated from the
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religious practice in which girls were married and dedicated to a deity (
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was practiced where the temple counted more than a thousand prostitutes (
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and the United Arab Emirates form a large proportion of the customers.
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girls are forced by their poor families to dedicate themselves to the
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during their invasions across East Asia and Southeast Asia. The term "
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revived a method of prostituting young boys, which is referred to as
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among prostitutes; this episode contributed to HIV/AIDS awareness.
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French prostitutes being taken to the police station; painting by
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Each specialized category had its proper name, so there were the
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temples and replaced the religious practices with Christianity.
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was not considered prostitution and was very common during the
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Many of the women who posed in 19th- and early-20th-century
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Prostitution in China was due to a weak familial economy in
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informed that any future arrest for prostitution will be a
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in the 16th century who often came with their South Asian
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in Japan. This practice continued among visitors from the
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while the unregistered ones fell under the broad category
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fresco
Pompeii
Secret Museum, Naples
Prostitution
Sacred prostitution
Ancient Near East
Herodotus
The Histories
sacred prostitution
Sumerian
BCE
brothel
Uruk
Ishtar
Canaan
Sardinia
Phoenician
Ashtart
Constantine
goddess
ancient Israel
Hebrew Bible
Judah
Tamar
Genesis 38:14–26
Book of Joshua
Jericho
Rahab
Judaism

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