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“Whole sections of streets are given over to the streetwalkers for the plying of their profession.” Women “of EVERY color can be found in the streets, particularly after ten o’clock at night, soliciting men… and proudly flaunting their licentiousness in the most SHAMELESS manner.”īy the 1820s, prostitution… AND the proliferation of brothels… had moved further North, up main thoroughfares like Broadway, Church street, the Bowery and into neighborhoods like Five Points.Ī view of Five Points from Mulberry Bend. Close to the docks and wharves primarily concentrated on certain streets. Sarah : During the 18th century prostitution in New York City was mainly concentrated in the southern-most tip of Manhattan Island. It was a form of social control over the actions of women, whether they exchanged sex for cash or not.Īlso, we are going to be describing a few sexual acts and other things that some may not find appropriate. Might not be illegal or even defined by the law, instead a woman could be hauled into court for vagrancy or drunkenness- and be labeled a prostitute. Many prostitutes instead ran into trouble with laws that prohibited public drunkenness, lewdness, vagrancy, cursing or swearing, indecent exposure, or disturbing the peace. The illegality of the physical act of trading sex for money was not codified into a universal law and many states did not pass laws banning the physical act of prostitution until the 1920s. If they were “treated,” ie traded dates and sex for dinners, lodging, and entertainment, they were labeled a prostitute too.Įlizabeth : Also important to point out that the legal definition of prostitution was not set in stone. Also, a note on the use of the label “prostitute.” Women who even acted a certain way could be a prostitute. This is a choice on our part because we want to use the terms that were used and understood at the time that we are speaking about. We are going to use the terms prostitute and prostitution as opposed to the more modern term of sex worker.
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Sarah : We want to start off by talking about nomenclature here. Stick around as we talk about prostitution, brothels, and the madams who ran them in this week’s episode.Īnd we’re YOUR historians for this episode of DIG Commodified sex was everywhere and available f or any price. Produced and Recorded by Elizabeth Garner Masarik, MA, PhD Candidate and Sarah Handley-Cousins, PhDĮlizabeth: In 19th century New York City, sex was for sale a nd it wasn’t hard to find it. Written and researched by Elizabeth Garner Masarik, MA, PhD Candidate Selling Sex: 19th Century New York City Brothels and Prostitution Transcript of 19th Century New York City Prostitution: Puritan Sex: The Surprising Sexual Practice of American Puritan New Englanders.Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence in the French Revolution.Marie Stopes: Married Sexual Pleasure, Birth Control and Eugenics.A Night-Scene At Harry Hill’S Concert Saloon.