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Prostitution coeval with Society.--Prostitutes in the Eighteenth Century B.C.--Tamar and Judah.--Legislation of Moses.--Syrian Women.--Rites of Moloch.--Groves.--Social Condition of Jewish Harlots.--Description by Solomon.--The Jews of Babylon. Page 35
Prostitution coeval with Society.--Prostitutes in the Eighteenth Century B.C.--Tamar and Judah.--Legislation of Moses.--Syrian Women.--Rites of Moloch.--Groves.--Social Conditio...
2. CHAPTER II. EGYPT, SYRIA, AND ASIA MINOR.3. CHAPTER III. GREECE.Mythology.--Solonian Legislation.--Dicteria.--Pisistratidæ.-- Lycurgus and Sparta.--Laws on Prostitution.--Case of Phryne.--Classes of Prostitutes.--Pornikon Telos.--Dress.-- Ha...
4. CHAPTER IV. ROME.Laws governing Prostitution.--Floralian Games.--Registration of Prostitutes.--Purity of Morals.--Julian Law.--Ædiles.-- Classes of Prostitutes.--Loose Prostitutes.--Various Clas...
5. CHAPTER V. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA.Christian Teachers preach Chastity.--Horrible Punishment of Christian Virgins.--Persecution of Women.--Conversion of Prostitutes.--The Gnostics.--The Ascetics.--Conventual Life....
6. CHAPTER VI. FRANCE.--HISTORY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.Morals in Gaul.--Gynecea.--Capitulary of Charlemagne.--Morals in the Middle Ages.--Edict of 1254.--Decree of 1358, re-establishing Prostitution.--Roi des Ribauds.--Ordinance of...
7. CHAPTER VII. FRANCE.--HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO LOUIS XIII.The Court.--Louis IX. to Charles V.--Charles VI.--Agnes Sorel.--Louis XI.--Charles VIII.--Louis XII.--Francis I.--La Belle Feronniere.--Henry II.--Diana de Poictiers.--Lewd Book...
8. CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE.--HISTORY FROM LOUIS XIII. TO THE PRESENT DAY.Exile of Prostitutes.--Measures of Louis XIV.--Laws of 1684 and 1713.--Police Regulations.--Ordinance of 1778.-- Republican Legislation.--Frightful state of Paris.--Efforts to p...
9. CHAPTER IX. FRANCE.--SYPHILIS.First recorded Appearance in Europe.--Description by Fracastor.--Conduct of the Faculty.--First Hospitals in Paris.--Shocking Condition of the Sick.--New Syphilitic Hospital.--P...
10. CHAPTER X. FRANCE.--PRESENT REGULATIONS.Number of Prostitutes in Paris.--Their Nativity, Parentage, Education, Age, etc.--Causes of Prostitution.--Rules concerning tolerated Houses.--Maisons de Passe.--Windows.-- Keep...
11. CHAPTER XI. ITALY.Decline of Public Morals.--Papal Court.--Nepotism.--John XXII.--Sextus IV.--Alexander VI.--Effect of the Reformation.-- Poem of Fracastoro.--Benvenuto Cellini.--Beatrice Cenci.-...
12. CHAPTER XII. SPAIN.Resemblance between Spanish and Roman Laws on Prostitution.-- Code of Alphonse IX.--Result of Draconian Legislation.-- Ruffiani.--Court Morals.--Brothels.--Valencia.--Laws for t...
13. CHAPTER XIII. PORTUGAL.14. CHAPTER XIV. ALGERIA.Prostitution in Algiers before the Conquest.--Mezonar.-- Unnatural Vices.--Tax on Prostitutes.--Decree of 1837.-- Corruption.--Number of Prostitutes and Population.-- Nationalit...
15. CHAPTER XV. BELGIUM.16. CHAPTER XVI. HAMBURG.Ancient Legislation.--Ulm.--Legislation from 1483 to 1764.-- French Revolution, and its effects on Morals.--Abendroth's Ordinance in 1807.--Police Ordinance in 1811.--Additional...
17. CHAPTER XVII. PRUSSIA.Patriarchal Government.--Ecclesiastical Legislation.--Trade Guilds.--Enactments in 1700.--Inquiry in 1717.--Enactment in 1792.--Police Order, 1795.--Census.--Increase of illicit...
18. CHAPTER XVIII. LEIPZIG.19. CHAPTER XIX. DENMARK.20. CHAPTER XX. SWITZERLAND.21. CHAPTER XXI. RUSSIA.Ancient Manners.--Peter the Great.--Eudoxia.--Empress Catharine, her dissolute Conduct and Death.--Peter's Libertinism.--Anne.--Elizabeth.--Catharine II., infamous Career and De...
22. CHAPTER XXII. SWEDEN AND NORWAY.23. CHAPTER XXIII. GREAT BRITAIN.--HISTORY TO THE TIME OF THE COMMONWEALTH.Aboriginal Morals and Laws.--Anglo-Saxon Legislation.-- Introduction of Christianity.--St. Augustine.--Prostitution in the Ninth Century.--Court Example.--Norman Epoch.--Feudal...
24. CHAPTER XXIV. GREAT BRITAIN.--HISTORY FROM THE COMMONWEALTH TO THEPuritans.--Results of Asceticism.--Excesses of the Restoration.--General Licentiousness.--Art.--Literature.--The Stage.--Nell Gwynne.--Nationality in Vice.--Sabbath at Court.--J...
25. CHAPTER XXV. GREAT BRITAIN.--PROSTITUTION AT THE PRESENT TIME.Influence of the Wealthy Classes.--Devices of Procuresses.-- Scene at a Railway Station.--Organization for entrapping Women.--Seduction of Children.--Continental Traffic.-- Brot...
26. CHAPTER XXVI. GREAT BRITAIN.--SYPHILITIC DISEASES.First Recognition in England.--Regulations of Henry VI.-- Lazar Houses.--John of Gaddesden.--Queen Elizabeth's Surgeon.--Popular Opinions.--Proclamation of James IV. of Scotland...
27. CHAPTER XXVII. MEXICO.Spanish Conquest.--Treatment of Female Prisoners.--Mexican Manners in 1677.--Priesthood.--Modern Society.--Fashionable Life.--Indifference of Husbands to their Wives.--General I...
28. CHAPTER XXVIII. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.Low moral Condition.--San Salvador.--Guatemala.--Yucatan.-- Costa Rica.--Honduras.--The Caribs.--Depravity in Peru and Chili.--"Children of the House."--Intrigue in Lima.-- Infa...
29. CHAPTER XXIX. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.Decrease of the Indian Race.--Treatment of Females.-- Courtship.--Stealing Wives.--Domestic Life among the Crow Indians.--"Pine Leaf."--Female Prisoners.--Marriage.-- Conjugal R...
30. CHAPTER XXXI. SEMI-CIVILIZED NATIONS.31. CHAPTER XXXII. NEW YORK.--STATISTICS.Schedule of Questions.--Age.--Juvenile Depravity.--Premature Old Age.--Gradual Descent.--Average Duration of a Prostitute's Life.--Nativity.--Proportion of Prostitutes from vari...
32. CHAPTER XXXIII. NEW YORK.--STATISTICS.Continuance of Prostitution.--Average in Paris and New York.-- Dangers of Prostitution.--Disease.--Causes of Prostitution.-- Inclination.--Destitution.--Seduction.--Intemperance...
33. CHAPTER XXXIV. NEW YORK.--STATISTICS.Means of Support.--Occupation.--Treatment of Domestics.-- Needlewomen.--Weekly Earnings.--Female Labor in France.-- Competition.--Opportunity for Employment in the Country.-- Ef...
34. CHAPTER XXXV. NEW YORK.--PROSTITUTES AND HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION.First Class, or "Parlor Houses."--Luxury.--Semi-refinement.-- Rate of Board.--Dress.--Money.--Lavish Extravagance.-- Instance of Economy.--Means of Amusement.--House-keepers.--...
35. CHAPTER XXXVI. NEW YORK.--EXTENT, EFFECTS, AND COST OF PROSTITUTION.Number of Public Prostitutes.--Opinion of Chief of Police in 1856.--Effects on Prostitution of Commercial Panic of 1857.-- Extravagant Surmises.--Police Investigation of May, 18...
36. CHAPTER XXXVII. NEW YORK.--REMEDIAL MEASURES.Effects of Prohibition.--Required Change of Policy.-- Governmental Obligations.--Prostitution augmented by Seclusion.--Impossibility of benevolent Assistance.-- Necessity of san...
37. CHAPTER I.Prostitution coeval with Society.--Prostitutes in the Eighteenth Century B.C.--Tamar and Judah.--Legislation of Moses.--Syrian Women.--Rites of Moloch.--Groves.--Social Conditio...
38. CHAPTER II.Before passing to the subject of prostitution in Greece, a glance at Egypt, and those nations of Asia which seem to have preceded Greece in civilization, may not be out of place.
39. CHAPTER III.Mythology.--Solonian Legislation.--Dicteria.--Pisistratidæ.--Lycurgus and Sparta.--Laws on Prostitution.--Case of Phryne.--Classes of Prostitutes.--Pornikon Telos.--Dress.--Hair...
40. CHAPTER IV.Laws governing Prostitution.--Floralian Games.--Registration of Prostitutes.--Purity of Morals.--Julian Law.--Ædiles.--Classes of Prostitutes.--Loose Prostitutes.--Various Class...
41. CHAPTER V.Christian Teachers preach Chastity.--Horrible Punishment of Christian Virgins.--Persecution of Women.--Conversion of Prostitutes.--The Gnostics.--The Ascetics.--Conventual Life....
42. CHAPTER VI.Morals in Gaul.--Gynecea.--Capitulary of Charlemagne.--Morals in the Middle Ages.--Edict of 1254.--Decree of 1358, re-establishing Prostitution.--Roi des Ribauds.--Ordinance of...
43. CHAPTER VII.The Court.--Louis IX. to Charles V.--Charles VI.--Agnes Sorel.--Louis XI.--Charles VIII.--Louis XII.--Francis I.--La Belle Feronniere.-- Henry II.--Diana de Poictiers.--Lewd Boo...
44. CHAPTER VIII.Exile of Prostitutes.--Measures of Louis XIV.--Laws of 1684 and 1713.--Police Regulations.--Ordinance of 1778.--Republican Legislation.--Frightful state of Paris.--Efforts to pa...
45. CHAPTER IX.First recorded Appearance in Europe.--Description by Fracastor.-- Conduct of the Faculty.--First Hospitals in Paris.--Shocking Condition of the Sick.--New Syphilitic Hospital.--...
46. CHAPTER X.Number of Prostitutes in Paris.--Their Nativity, Parentage, Education, Age, etc.--Causes of Prostitution.--Rules concerning tolerated Houses.--Maisons de Passe.--Windows.--Keepe...
47. CHAPTER XI.Decline of Public Morals.--Papal Court.--Nepotism.--John XXII.--Sextus IV.--Alexander VI.--Effect of the Reformation.--Poem of Fracastoro.-- Benvenuto Cellini.--Beatrice Cenci.-...
48. CHAPTER XII.Resemblance between Spanish and Roman Laws on Prostitution.--Code of Alphonse IX.--Result of Draconian Legislation.--Ruffiani.--Court Morals.--Brothels.--Valencia.--Laws for the...
49. CHAPTER XIII.A writer on Portugal, in the year 1780, complains of the scandalous licentiousness of the monks and nuns, of whom there were no less than two hundred and fifty thousand in a pop...
50. CHAPTER XIV.Prostitution in Algiers before the Conquest.--Mezonar.--Unnatural Vices.--Tax on Prostitutes.--Decree of 1837.--Corruption.--Number of Prostitutes and Population.--Nationality o...
51. CHAPTER XV.Belgium takes a more prominent position in Europe than its mere extent would warrant. This influence is derived from the vigorous and effective stand made in behalf of rational...
52. CHAPTER XVI.Ancient Legislation.--Ulm.--Legislation from 1483 to 1764.--French Revolution, and its effects on Morals.--Abendroth's Ordinance in 1807.--Police Ordinance in 1811.--Additional...
53. CHAPTER XVII.Patriarchal Government.--Ecclesiastical Legislation.--Trade Guilds.-- Enactments in 1700.--Inquiry in 1717.--Enactment in 1792.--Police Order, 1795.--Census.--Increase of illici...
54. CHAPTER XVIII.But very few remarks are necessary concerning prostitution in Leipzig, where no striking peculiarity marks the common women as a class, and the legislation is based on the ordin...
55. CHAPTER XIX.Prostitutes are very numerous in Copenhagen. This might be expected from the mixed character of the city, at once a capital, military station, and sea-port. It has been remarked...
56. CHAPTER XX.This country, from her republican form of government, and her comparative isolation from the rest of the world, presents matter of peculiar interest to the inquirer into the nat...
57. CHAPTER XXI.Ancient Manners.--Peter the Great.--Eudoxia.--Empress Catharine, her dissolute Conduct and Death.--Peter's Libertinism.--Anne.-- Elizabeth.--Catharine II., infamous Career and D...
58. CHAPTER XXII.The ancient Scandinavian peninsula, land of the Scald and the Rune, with its Vikings and Beisckers, has sent down to us many a legend of war and conquest, but few of social mann...
59. CHAPTER XXIII.Aboriginal Morals and Laws.--Anglo-Saxon Legislation.--Introduction of Christianity.--St. Augustine.--Prostitution in the Ninth Century.-- Court Example.--Norman Epoch.--Feudal...
60. CHAPTER XXIV.Puritans.--Results of Asceticism.--Excesses of the Restoration.-- General Licentiousness.--Art.--Literature.--The Stage.--Nell Gwynne.-- Nationality in Vice.--Sabbath at Court.-...
61. CHAPTER XXV.Influence of the Wealthy Classes.--Devices of Procuresses.--Scene at a Railway Station.--Organization for entrapping Women.--Seduction of Children.--Continental Traffic.--Brothe...
62. CHAPTER XXVI.First Recognition in England.--Regulations of Henry VI.--Lazar Houses.--John of Gaddesden.--Queen Elizabeth's Surgeon.--Popular Opinions.--Proclamation of James IV. of Scotland....
63. CHAPTER XXVII.Spanish Conquest.--Treatment of Female Prisoners.--Mexican Manners in 1677.--Priesthood.--Modern Society.--Fashionable Life.--Indifference of Husbands to their Wives.--General I...
64. CHAPTER XXVIII.Low moral Condition.--San Salvador.--Guatemala.--Yucatan.--Costa Rica.--Honduras.--The Caribs.--Depravity in Peru and Chili.--"Children of the House."--Intrigue in Lima.--Infant...
65. CHAPTER XXIX.Decrease of the Indian Race.--Treatment of Females.--Courtship.-- Stealing Wives.--Domestic Life among the Crow Indians.--"Pine Leaf."-- Female Prisoners.--Marriage.--Conjugal R...
66. CHAPTER XXX.The relations of the sexes among uneducated races are modified by every circumstance of their position, but the natural ascendency of the strong over the weak is universally dis...
67. CHAPTER XXXI.Women occupy an inferior position in Persia, where they are literally the property of men. The lower classes consider them valuable for their labor, the rich regard them as inst...
68. CHAPTER XXXII.Schedule of Questions.--Age.--Juvenile Depravity.--Premature Old Age.--Gradual Descent.--Average Duration of a Prostitute's Life.-- Nativity.--Proportion of Prostitutes from var...
69. CHAPTER XXXIII.Continuance of Prostitution.--Average in Paris and New York.--Dangers of Prostitution.--Disease.--Causes of Prostitution.--Inclination.-- Destitution.--Seduction.--Intemperance....
70. CHAPTER XXXIV.Means of Support.--Occupation.--Treatment of Domestics.-- Needlewomen.--Weekly Earnings.--Female Labor in France.-- Competition.--Opportunity for Employment in the Country.--Eff...
71. CHAPTER XXXV.First Class, or "Parlor Houses."--Luxury.--Semi-refinement.--Rate of Board.--Dress.--Money.--Lavish Extravagance.--Instance of Economy.-- Means of Amusement.--House-keepers.--Re...
72. CHAPTER XXXVI.Number of Public Prostitutes.--Opinion of Chief of Police in 1856.-- Effects on Prostitution of Commercial Panic of 1857.--Extravagant Surmises.--Police Investigation of May, 18...
73. CHAPTER XXXVII.Effects of Prohibition.--Required Change of Policy.--Governmental Obligations.--Prostitution augmented by Seclusion.--Impossibility of benevolent Assistance.--Necessity of sanit...