Paul McHugh, "Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform"
English | ISBN: 0415752582 | 2014 | 312 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases.
