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The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects throughout the World is a book published by William Wallace Sanger in 1858. It analyzes prostitution in different civilizations throughout world history with a particular focus on New York in the 1850s.
The federal government also prosecutes some prostitution offenses. One man who forced women to be prostitutes received a 40-year sentence in federal court. [53] Another was prosecuted for income tax evasion. [54] Another man pleaded guilty to federal charges of harboring a 15-year-old girl and having her work as a prostitute. [55]
Heidi Fleiss, a.k.a. the "Hollywood Madam", ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles during the 1990s; Suzy Favor Hamilton, middle-distance runner in three Olympic Games, the subject of intense publicity when her activities as an escort became public; Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), Dutch spy
A Long Island man allegedly ran a prostitution ring out of his elderly parents' home, enticing women with drugs and locking them in a basement.
A South Florida man convicted of luring dozens of women at strip clubs and through the internet into his sex-trafficking ring was sentenced to 60 years in prison this week.
From 1910 to 1913, city after city withdrew this tolerance and forced the closing of their brothels. Opposition to openly practiced prostitution had been growing steadily throughout the last decades of the 19th century. The federal government's response to the moral panic was the Mann Act. The purpose of the act was to make it a crime to coerce ...