A History Of Prostitution From Antiquity To The Present Day by George Ryley Scott
From Antiquity to the Present Day
A compact, comparative survey that traces the practice of prostitution from ancient civilizations through the medieval and early-modern periods to contemporary times, examining how different societies understood, regulated, and moralized sex work; it explores legal regimes, religious teachings, public-health concerns, economic drivers, and the lived realities of those involved, showing recurring tensions between tolerance, control, reform and condemnation and how shifting social norms, state policies and medical knowledge reshaped the institution across cultures and eras.
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