prostitution

Examples of prostitution in the following topics:

• Pioneer Women

  • The most famous were the houses of prostitution found in mining camps.
  • Chinese women, for example, were frequently sold by their families and taken to the camps as prostitutes; they had to send their earnings back to their families in China.
  • In Virginia City, Nevada, a prostitute named Julia Bulette was one of the few who achieved "respectable" status.
  • Gambling and prostitution were central to life in many western towns.
  • Only later—as the female population increased, reformers moved in, and other civilizing influences arrived—did prostitution become less blatant and less common.

• Women in the West

  • The few women who went to these wild outposts were typically prostitutes, and even their numbers were limited.
  • Many Chinese women, for example, came to the western camps as prostitutes to make money to send back home.
  • Some of the “painted ladies” who began as prostitutes eventually owned brothels and became businesswomen in their own right.
  • They fought to remove opportunities for prostitution and other vices they felt threatened their values.
  • Protestant missionaries eventually joined the women in their efforts, and Congress responded by passing both the Comstock Law (named after its chief proponent, anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock) in 1873 to ban the spread of “lewd and lascivious literature” through the mail, and the subsequent Page Act of 1875 to prohibit transportation of women into the United States for employment as prostitutes.

• Manet

  • His subsequently frank depiction of a self-assured prostitute was accepted by the Paris Salon in 1865, where it created a scandal.
  • As with Luncheon on the Grass, the painting raised the issue of prostitution within contemporary France and the roles of women within society.
  • Manet's Olympia was a controversial painting at the time due to the confrontational gaze of the woman depicted and also to the fact that numerous details in the painting signify that she is a prostitute.

• The Western Frontier

  • Gambling and prostitution were central to life in these western towns, and only later―as the female population increased and reformers moved in―did prostitution become somewhat less common.
  • Abilene, Kansas is one example of a lawless town, replete with prostitutes, gambling, and other vices, that transformed when middle-class women arrived in the 1880s with their husbands.

• The Justinian Code

  • Other laws, some influenced by his wife Theodora, include those to protect prostitutes from exploitation and women from being forced into prostitution.

• American Painting: The Ashcan School

  • In contrast to the Impressionists' emphasis on light, their Realist works were generally darker in tone, capturing harsher moments of life and often portraying such subjects as prostitutes, drunks, butchered pigs, overflowing tenements, boxing matches, and wrestlers.

• Literary Naturalism

  • Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, including poverty, racism, violence, prejudice, disease, corruption, prostitution, and filth.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • The WCTU was very interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace.

• Social Regulation

  • In the United States, the term 'social policy' may be used to refer to abortion and the regulation of its practice, euthanasia, homosexuality, the rules surrounding issues of marriage, divorce, adoption, the legal status of recreational drugs, and the legal status of prostitution.

• Causes of Market Failure

  • For example, cigarettes, alcohol, and prostitution are considered demerit goods.