Prostitution

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The paper shows how prostitution has existed for as long as history has been recorded and beyond. It defines the term prostitution and shows its history from the time of the Bible through the Middle Ages and finally the history of prostitution in the United States. The paper also examines prostitution in America today.

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"During the 1800s, America was expanding. Men were often alone on the frontier for months to even years at a time. When women finally arrived, many of them were part of a family, but many more came seeing an opportunity. Prostitution now spanned three major subcultures. Women in it strictly for the money made up five to ten percent of the first subculture. The second subculture was male; sporting males were encouraged to hire prostitutes. The third subculture was organized brothels. Men could find hundreds of brothels in St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and as the Westward Expansion carried people further west, you could find them in all the rip-roaring mining towns of the west too, like San Francisco, Denver, Virginia City, and Sacramento."

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