Prostitution

Containment: Managing Street Prostitution in London, 1918–1959

“…This interpretation of prostitution supports Paula Bartley's claim that historians overplay the repressive aspects of policing and Roger Davidson's findings, which stress the local as opposed to state-driven pressures to clamp down on prostitution. 169 Certainly prostitution was policed less harshly than in France or the United States. 170 Yet explanations for increased police surveillance in the years after the Second World War can be found from 1935.…”