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Policing male heterosexuality: the reformation of manners societies' campaign against the brothels in Westminster, 1690-1720.
Journal of Social History
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June 22, 2004|
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The Sexual Offences Act of 1985 is generally seen as the first time that the law targeted male clients of prostitutes. The statute made "the soliciting of women for sexual purposes by men" punishable by summary conviction. (1) The MPs who passed the legislation saw the move as a distinctly "modern law," illustrative of the fact that we now "live in an age of sexual equality." (2) In the early days of feminism in the nineteenth century, England's Ladies' Associations began to speak out about the inequality of laws that made prostitutes' soliciting an offence but ignored their ...
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