Good read
They had a much more practical way of dealing with it back then as seen in this paragraph
The accommodation helped to balloon city revenues. Prostitution remained illegal, but every month streetwalkers and madams would appear in court, pay a fine for their evil deeds and then resume their business as before.
And when the do-gooders shut it down the consequences were predictable The advance of technology led to the undoing of the bordello. With telephones came call girls who, instead of being ensconced in a boudoir, visited customers' hotel rooms and offices. And, after a multi-decade campaign, temperance organizations, churches, neighborhood associations and government reformers succeeded in shutting down all the brothels by 1915. But they deluded themselves if they thought they had stamped out prostitution. It merely went underground, and, as Petersen points out, instead of having three red-light districts, the entire city became a red-light district, which explains why these days, prostitution busts pop up all over both cities and suburbs.
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Fascinating....there was recently a piece on the Jewish Mafia downtown (some of which is still there) and they also had bordellos....but this piece tops it...thank you!
They had a much more practical way of dealing with it back then as seen in this paragraph
The accommodation helped to balloon city revenues. Prostitution remained illegal, but every month streetwalkers and madams would appear in court, pay a fine for their evil deeds and then resume their business as before.
And when the do-gooders shut it down the consequences were predictable The advance of technology led to the undoing of the bordello. With telephones came call girls who, instead of being ensconced in a boudoir, visited customers' hotel rooms and offices. And, after a multi-decade campaign, temperance organizations, churches, neighborhood associations and government reformers succeeded in shutting down all the brothels by 1915.
But they deluded themselves if they thought they had stamped out prostitution. It merely went underground, and, as Petersen points out, instead of having three red-light districts, the entire city became a red-light district, which explains why these days, prostitution busts pop up all over both cities and suburbs.