TACKLING THE TOULON SEX-TRADE
[SEX-WORK.]
Arrêtés des 3 et 4 Juin 1833, concernant les femmes et filles livrées à la prostitution publique.
Toulon, ‘de l’imprimerie d’Aug. Aurel’, 1833.
4to, pp. 11, [1 (blank)]; short tear to outer margin of last leaf, light creasing; a very good copy, pamphlet-stitched.
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Arrêtés des 3 et 4 Juin 1833, concernant les femmes et filles livrées à la prostitution publique.
An apparently unrecorded set of decrees intended to regulate sex-work in the French port of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, ‘for the maintenance of good morals and public health’.
Issued by the mayor of Toulon and approved by Joseph Floret as prefect of the department of Var, the twenty-one articles state that: all the city’s sex-workers should be registered at the city hall, should carry an identity card, and should inform the police of any changes of address; they are forbidden from walking the streets after 9 pm in winter and 10 pm in summer, and from ‘publicly inciting debauchery through words or gestures’ and singing obscene songs; and they are specifically prohibited from entertaining soldiers or sailors or entering military barracks. Sex-workers were to receive regular visits by the police to check on their health and papers, and those affected by syphilis or other contagious diseases were to be detained at the civil hospice and treated by sanitary officers. Owners of cafés, cabarets, bars, and shops are also advised not to let sex-workers enter their premises.
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