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City of Eros : New York City, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790-1920 /

"A social history of prostitution in New York City examines the streets and neighborhoods where it flourished, the brothel owners, and the women for whom prostitution became either an escape from poverty or a trap." --

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Main Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Prostitution > New York (State) > New York > History.
Sex industry > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York
New York (N.Y.)
Prostitution > New York (State) > New York > History
Sex-oriented businesses > New York (State) > New York > History
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Holy grounds
  • Part One. Antebellum New York, 1820-1870.
  • Sex districts.
  • Five points ;
  • The West side ;
  • Water and Cherry streets ;
  • The hook
  • "The whorearchy"
  • Brothel riots and Broadway pimps
  • Sporting men
  • Part Two.
  • Halcyon years.
  • "Shoulder hitters," porno kings and politicians
  • A "gay" literature
  • "Bawdy houses"
  • Part Three.
  • Comstock's New York, 1871-1920.
  • Sexual politics.
  • Sexual politics before 1870 ;
  • The preventive society ;
  • The vice campaigns
  • Sex districts revisited.
  • The Tenderloin ;
  • The African Tenderloin ;
  • The Rialto ;
  • East side ;
  • Bleecker Street and Washington Square ;
  • Lower East Side ;
  • Below Canal Street ;
  • Above Fifty-ninth Street ;
  • Outer Boroughs
  • Concert halls and french balls.
  • The French ball ;
  • Real mean ;
  • Residential sex ;
  • The Raines law hotel
  • Syndicates and underworlds.
  • The rise of the syndicates ;
  • Landlords and the underworld
  • White slaves and kept women.
  • Real lives
  • Undermining the underworld.
  • The end of the century of prostitution
  • Appendixes.
  • A selection of brothel owners in New York City, 1820-1859
  • Recorded attacks on houses of prostitution, 1820-1860
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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