Prostitution and Illicit Sex in Baltimore: Commercialized Vice, Report of the Maryland Vice Commission, 1916
Prostitution and Illicit Sex in Baltimore: Commercialized Vice, Report of the Maryland Vice Commission, 1916

Author: Bill LeFurgy

Publisher: High Kicker Books

Published: 2021-07-01

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1734567856

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The state of Maryland established the Maryland Vice Commission in 1913 to "examine into the conditions of vice in this State and its relation and effect on the community at large.” The commission issued five draft reports by early 1916. Baltimore officials refused to accept any of the findings and the reports were not officially published. This book provides a typescript copy of the first commission report, entitled "Commercialized Vice in Baltimore." Included is an introduction to the commission and an overview of its finding in relation to the contemporary sex trade, including sexual procurement, prostitutes, and bordellos. A select bibliography relating to primary and secondary sources is provided.

Same-Sex Affairs
Same-Sex Affairs

Author: Peter Boag

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-08-14

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0520240480

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Same-Sex Affairs is a path-breaking history of male homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest from 1890 to 1930.

For Business and Pleasure
For Business and Pleasure

Author: Mara Laura Keire

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0801898773

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Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.