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The History of Prostitution
* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, The History of Prostitution is considered one of the most detailed, sympathetic, and objective studies of prostitution in New York City.
* Just as accessible and informative for today's readers as it would have been when first published, the study is one of the great works of American social research and continues to be widely read throughout the world.
* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images of classic works of art carefully selected by our team of professional editors.
* Just as accessible and informative for today's readers as it would have been when first published, the study is one of the great works of American social research and continues to be widely read throughout the world.
* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images of classic works of art carefully selected by our team of professional editors.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2014
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February 24, 2021
If the length (~32 hours of running time as an audiobook) and the age (~160 years old) can be tolerated, this encyclopedic book seems a rare information source on the subject. It covers, to various degrees of extent, all times in human history, including the ancient Egypt and classical Greece and Rome, and all peoples, including so-called barbaric and semi-civilized countries. Some of the materials are actually beyond prostitution, as in general customs of marriage and the relationship of the sexes, and the marriage, sexual, and romantic lives of royalties. One interesting part to me is the individual short stories of many prostitutes in New York City about how they fell from virtuous women. Detailed statistical tables are often quite tedious, however.
June 25, 2022
2.5 ⭐️
Definitely a very interesting read but also one that seems to be very much so a product of its time. Even though I feel like I’ve learnt quite a lot, I just cannot overlook the vast amounts of racism, xenophobia, sexism, misogyny and narcissistic ”holier-than-thou“-type thinking (with a nice splash of that good ol‘ US-American superiority complex) contained in these pages. I was truly baffled by the fact that the author in the same breath manages to both villainise and infantalise the – as he liked to call us sinful, sinful womanfolk – ”fairer sex“.
Definitely a very interesting read but also one that seems to be very much so a product of its time. Even though I feel like I’ve learnt quite a lot, I just cannot overlook the vast amounts of racism, xenophobia, sexism, misogyny and narcissistic ”holier-than-thou“-type thinking (with a nice splash of that good ol‘ US-American superiority complex) contained in these pages. I was truly baffled by the fact that the author in the same breath manages to both villainise and infantalise the – as he liked to call us sinful, sinful womanfolk – ”fairer sex“.
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