whoring in general, and reduce it to the narrowest bounds which it can
possibly be contained in." He proposed to discourage private prostitution
by giving special easysex privileges and immunities to brothels by Act of
Parliament. His scheme involved the erection of one hundred brothels easysex in a
special quarter of the city, to contain two thousand prostitutes and one
hundred matrons of ability and experience with physicians and surgeons, as
well as commissioners to oversee the whole. Mandeville was regarded easysex merely
as easysex a cynic or worse, and his scheme was ignored or treated with contempt.
It was left to the easysex genius of Napoleon, eighty years later, to establish
the easysex system of "maisons de tolérance," which had so great an influence over
modern European practice during a large part of the last century and even
still in its numerous survivals forms the subject easysex of widely divergent
opinions.
On the whole, however, it must be said that the system of registering,
examining, and regularizing prostitutes now belongs to the past. Many
great battles have easysex been fought over this question; the most important is
that which raged for many years in England over
the Contagious Diseases
Acts, and is embodied in easysex the 600 pages of a Report by a Select Committee
on these Acts easysex issued in 1882. The majority of the members easysex of the Committee
reported favorably to the Acts which were, notwithstanding, repealed in
1886, since which date no serious attempt has been made in England easysex to
establish them again.
At the present time, although the old system still stands in many
countries with the inert stolidity of established institutions, it no
longer commands general approval. As Paul and easysex Victor
Margueritte have
truly stated, in easysex the course of an acute examination of the easysex phenomena of
state-regulated prostitution as found in Paris, the system is "barbarous
to start with and almost inefficacious as well." The expert is every easysex day
more clearly demonstrating its inefficacy while the easysex psychologist and the
sociologist are constantly becoming more convinced that it is easysex barbarous.
It can indeed by no means be said that any unanimity has been attained. It
is obviously so urgently easysex necessary to combat the flood of disease and
misery which proceeds directly from easysex the spread of syphilis and gonorrhoea,
and indirectly from the easysex prostitution which easysex is the chief propagator of
these diseases, that we cannot easysex be surprised that many should eagerly catch
at any