The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the WorldSanger, William W.
History
The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World
Sanger, William W.
Prostitution
"All brothel-keepers and girls should be distinctly made to understand
that their infamous and ruinous calling is only _tolerated_, not
permitted, or authorized, or even well wished. Still less can they
feel that they have any right to compare themselves with worthy
citizens as though their calling, because an impost is levied on them,
can be put on a level with other permitted callings. They must
remember that this impost is raised solely to defray the necessary
cost of police supervision, and of the cure of maladies brought on the
common women by their own profligate course of life."
"2. Public or private brothel-keeping to be notified to the police;
the regulations to be read over and subscribed; offenders to be
punished by bread and water, and the House of Correction. If an
uninscribed woman have the venereal disease, the fact is _prima facie_
evidence of prostitution."
"3. Change of residence to be notified, under penalty."
"4. The concession may be withdrawn by the authorities at their
pleasure."
"5. Houses of accommodation will only be tolerated,
(_a._) where the landlord is inscribed;
(_b._) where a resident girl is inscribed;
(_c._) where an inscribed girl is the party using it."
"6. Women from abroad, kept by single men, must obtain the police
residence permission, and should pay the tax for the first class,
without, however, being subject to medical visits. They have the right
of the free use of the General Infirmary. Should such a girl be proved
to have intercourse with several men, or, being venereal, to have
infected others, she should be treated as a public woman."
7, 8, 9. Prescribe the identification of individuals subscribing; the
details of their place of birth; the consent of parents when living; also,
"That any brothel-keeper detaining an innocent girl on false pretenses
shall be punished with fine and imprisonment, and the concession be
withdrawn."
"10. Female servants or relatives of brothel-keepers residing with
them to be over twenty-five years of age."
"11. No prostitute is suffered to keep children of either sex over ten
years of age; even her own must be brought up elsewhere if she
continues her calling."
12. Prohibits solicitation of passengers.
"13. No common woman to be in the streets after eleven at night
without a male companion."
14. Limits the places to which prostitutes may resort.
"15. Young people, under twenty years, not to enter a brothel."
"16. No music or gaming in brothels, nor liquor-selling, except by
special permission."
"17. Noise and uproar in brothels punishable."
"18. No brothel-keeper or inscribed woman to permit extortion or
violence to a customer, but they may detain persons who have not paid.
Thefts or foul dealing prohibited; the landlord _prima facie_
responsible."
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