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The evangelical movement of the 19th century denounced prostitutes and their clients as sinners, and society for tolerating it. [42] The Vagrancy Act 1824 introduced the term " common prostitute " into English Law and criminalised prostitutes with a punishment of up to one month hard labour . [ 43 ]
Controversial, it raised considerable attention for its commentary on society in mid 19th century London and concerns among the wider population that the city was the centre of moral decay in Britain and was infested with diseased prostitutes. [3]
Thus, the UK followed suit with the rest of Europe. [1] Between 1910 and 1915, prostitution became illegal in most of the United States following Christian efforts. In the early 21st century, the legal and social status of prostitution and prostitutes vary widely from country to country.
Molly house or molly-house was a term used in 18th- and 19th-century Britain for a meeting place for homosexual men and gender-nonconforming people. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses [1] or even private rooms [2] where patrons could either socialise or meet possible sexual partners.
The national move to criminalize prostitution was led by Protestant middle-class men and women who participated in the revivalism movement of the 19th century. [74] Many of the women who posed in 19th- and early-20th-century vintage erotica were prostitutes. The most famous were the New Orleans women who posed for E. J. Bellocq.
The Eliza Armstrong case was a major scandal in the United Kingdom involving a child bought for prostitution for the purpose of exposing the evils of sexual slavery.While it achieved its purpose of helping to enable the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, it also brought unintended consequences to W. T. Stead.
The social purity movement was a late 19th-century social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities that were considered immoral according to Christian morality. The movement was active in English-speaking nations from the late 1860s to about 1910, exerting an important influence on the contemporaneous feminist ...
Prostitutes conducting business in Southwark were often referred to as "Winchester Geese," a reference to the bishop of Winchester. [2] There is some debate about when the church began to regulate prostitution in Southwark. Some sources claim this began in the early 15th century, with the bishop backdating his order to give it more legitimacy. [4]