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HIST 301D - Regulating Intimacy: Histories of the Labor of Sex in North America

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Related historical terms

bawdy-house, red light district, house of ill fame, procuress, bordello, disorderly house
the social evil, white slavery, lewdness, vice, soliciting, immoral purposes
public woman, crib girl, cottage girl, sporting girl, a woman of the town
 

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