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Contagious Diseases Act (Causes of prostitutions (Working class women had…
Contagious Diseases Act
Impact of the Act
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There was a decline in the number of prostitutes in military districts and improvement in public order in naval towns
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Causes of prostitutions
Working class women had no/little education, low paid jobs
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Family circumstances -- abusive parents, or orphans
Victorian attitudes
Women were supposed to be pure until married there they would endure their husband's sexual advances
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However, prostitution help men's "natural" sex drive which could not be satisfied by marriage.
Social savour
1840 -- Gladstone began to "rescue" and "rehab" prostitutes, getting them to renouce their life of vice.
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London Lock Hospital founded as a house for lepers, "lock" signifies bandages or rags
Prostitutes would be rejected by other hospitals, but lock hospitals carried out moral reclamation as they were highly religious
These women were a source of cheap labour with treatments, like mecury treatments, vapour baths
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Venereal Disease is a sexually contracted diseases passed by either men or women.
Fever or flu, itching, vaginal discharge, swollen lymph nodes.