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Prostitution
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Prostitution
The performance of sexual activity for hire
prostitution
STD Performance of sexual work–ie, sexual activity for hire Epidemiology There are 0.5–2 million prostitutes–US; enter the field ± age 14; arrests for prostitution/commercialized vice, 1992 ♀ 47,526; ♂ 24,401; 17% of ♂ have solicited prostitutes. See Child prostitution, Sexual work, Sexually transmitted diseases.
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rushed the United States White-Slave Traffic Act (now known as the Mann Act) through Congress.
The "white slavery" panic: anti-prostitution activists have been ... by McNeil, Joanne / Reason
Specifically, I analyze the intertwined histories of two federal statutory provisions that created explicit legal categories of illicit sex: the "immoral purpose" provisions of the Immigration Act of 1907 and the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (also known as the Mann Act).
Immoral purposes: marriage and the genus of illicit sex by Dubler, Ariela R. / Yale Law Journal
92) These activists' efforts resulted in rescue homes for prostitutes that "suggest memories of the underground railroad"(93) and culminated in passage of the White-Slave Traffic (Mann) Act in 1910, which criminalized interstate transportation of women for immoral purposes.
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