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Article: City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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For most of the nineteenth century, according to Timothy J. Gilfoyle, prostitution occupied a prominent and remarkably public place in New York City life. Brothels operated openly, and the leading madams of the city became celebrated figures in local society. Moreover, New Yorkers from across the social spectrum were involved in the world of commercial sex; members of patrician families owned land that contained houses of ill fame, and men in the city, including the high-born and the well bred, embraced a gender-based subculture that promoted and glorified sexual indulgence.
Changing patterns of land use, Gilfoyle argues, transformed prostitution in New York City ...
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