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... prostitution . According to middle - class legend , any woman who took to the streets was branded for ever . This ... prostitute than at work in a white - lead factory where she was likely to die a slow and painful death from phos ...
... prostitution . According to middle - class legend , any woman who took to the streets was branded for ever . This ... prostitute than at work in a white - lead factory where she was likely to die a slow and painful death from phos ...
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... prostitutes by keeping them locked up in brothels . This part of its work met with some success ; and after the Second World War licensed and approved brothels were closed down in France and Italy . Prostitution still goes on , but at ...
... prostitutes by keeping them locked up in brothels . This part of its work met with some success ; and after the Second World War licensed and approved brothels were closed down in France and Italy . Prostitution still goes on , but at ...
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... prostitution by punishing the men who went to prostitutes as well as the women themselves . The insistence on chastity for men was not just a ques- tion of dealing with venereal disease . The ' double stan- dard ' of morality , which ...
... prostitution by punishing the men who went to prostitutes as well as the women themselves . The insistence on chastity for men was not just a ques- tion of dealing with venereal disease . The ' double stan- dard ' of morality , which ...
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