Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York ... with an account of the nature and treatment of the various diseases, caused by the abuses of the reproductive function / By Michael Ryan.
- Michael Ryan
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York ... with an account of the nature and treatment of the various diseases, caused by the abuses of the reproductive function / By Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![..countries, 188—_Police and other reports in October 1838, -189—Bad effects of penny-theatres, dancing and music- rooms, low lodging-houses, 200—Suggestions for corrective legislation: defective state of the law, 201— Magistrates should have summary powers to punish brothel-keepers, 203 —Replies of the Commissioners of M etropolitan Police, 206 —Number, ages, and offences of criminals arrested and punished for abuses of the reproductive functions, 207— Appeal to the virtuous on the amount of evil and misery caused thereby, 209. CHAPTER V. PROSTITUTION IN AMERICA. Effects of licentiousness on nations, 212—-Number of prostitutes in New York, 216—Ages and classification co causes of prostitution, 218—Seduction; drunken and bad husbands ; lower classes most numerous, 219—Seduction of children and young girls, 220 —Cruelty inflicted on them, 221 —They cannot escape, 221—Remarkable cases of private prostitution, 222—-Most extraordinary and horrible nalrative, 223—Countries which supply prostitutes; houses of pros- titution, 224 Assignation houses, 225— Boarding and lodg- ing houses, 226—Panders and male seducers, 227—Corrup- tion of children ; necessity of maternal vigilance, 228— Girls and boys of eleven years old contaminated, 228— And these contaminate others, 229— Thirty thousand youths corrupted in New York, 230—The character of prostitutes, 23] Crimes against nature, 232—The Sabbath-day profaned, 232 —Murder committed, 232—Deaths in brothels uninquired into, 234—Suicide, infanticide, 235—Criminal abortion, intemperance, 236—Dram-shops, 237— Gamblers, drunkards, and thieves, 238—Sailor-boarding-houses, 239—Theatres and opera-houses, their bad effects on morals, 239—Boys and girls steal to visit theatres; examples, 241—Licentiousness leads to stealing, 241—Is an inexorable tax-gatherer, 244 Effects of licentiousness on men’s intellects, morals and bodies, 244—Shocking effects of venereal disease, 246—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028333_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
