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How Do You Account For the Fact That the Regulation of Prostitution Has Usually Seen the Prostitute As the Problem? Discuss With Reference To Mid 19th Century Britain.
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HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT THE REGULATION OF PROSTITUTION HAS USUALLY SEEN THE PROSTITUTE AS THE PROBLEM? DISCUSS WITH REFERENCE TO MID 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN. The Victorian era saw the increase of regulation in all spheres of life. The discipline enforced in the factories and other working places was soon extended to make society ordered as well. The notions of prudence, thrift, and control extended from economic to the domestic, sexual and other areas of social life. The regulation of prostitution was another aspect of this widespread control. It was meant to control sexuality, and the Contagious Diseases Acts were first introduced in the 1860's, which enjoined the forcible inspection of prostitutes carrying venereal diseases. As Walkowitz says, ' through the control of sexuality, the acts reinforced existing patterns of class and gender domination. They illustrate the obsessive preoccupation with and codification of sex that, according to Michel...
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