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THE
HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION:

ITS EXTENT, CAUSES, AND EFFECTS THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD.

[BEING AN OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE BOARD OF ALMS-HOUSE GOVERNORS
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.]

BY WILLIAM W. SANGER , M.D.,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, BLACKWELLS ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE; LATE ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS
TO THE MARINE HOSPITAL, QUARANTINE, NEW YORK, ETC., ETC., ETC.

To such grievances as society can not readily cure, it usually forbids utterance on pain of its scorn; this scorn being only a sort of tinseled cloak to its deformed weakness. Currer Bell , Shirley.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1858.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

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DEDICATION.

TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE ALMS-HOUSE OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK.

Sirs ,To your honorable Board I dedicate the following pages, the result of an investigation into the causes and extent of Prostitution.

Yours was the conception, mine has been the execution of the work; to you am I indebted for many valuable suggestions; to your kindness for much encouraging approbation; and now to your hands I confide my labors, in the conviction that they will not be futile; that your patriotism, your philanthropy, and your humanity will be at once enlisted in the cause.

In so noble an endeavor it will be a source of satisfaction to remember that I assisted you in those generous exertions which will add fresh laurels to your names; that I had some share in the effort which will induce future generations to remember with pride that the first blow struck in the Western World at the gigantic vice Prostitution was aimed by the Governors of the Alms-House of the City and County of New York .

I am your obliged fellow-citizen,
William W. Sanger, M.D.

Resident Physicians Office, Blackwells Island,
New York City, August 10th, 1858.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

The reader will perceive from the body of this work that the History of Prostitution was commenced in the year 1856. It was completed and ready for the press at the close of 1857. On the morning of February 13th, 1858, the Island Hospital on Blackwells Island was entirely consumed by fire, which spread so rapidly as to render it impossible to save any thing from the flames. Among the property destroyed, my library and manuscripts were included. Fortunately, the first draught of this work had been previously removed from my office, and was preserved, and from that the present volume has been prepared.

Advantage has been taken of the opportunity thus afforded carefully to revise the work and introduce some additional facts, bringing the history, of New York especially, to the present time.

The chapters describing foreign prostitution are not claimed to be entirely original. They are compilations and condensations from every available source. It is believed that the authorities have been named in most cases where the ideas of others have been used; but, owing to the loss of all the original works, it is highly probable that in some instances this has been overlooked. Should the reader discover any omissions of this nature, he will be kind enough to understand that accident alone prevents the usual acknowledgements.

W. W. S.

Resident Physicians Office, Blackwells Island,
New York City, August 10th, 1858.

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CONTENTS.

THE JEWS.
Prostitution coeval with Society.Prostitutes in the Eighteenth Century B.C.Tamar and Judah.Legislation of Moses.Syrian Women.Rites of Moloch.Groves.Social Condition of Jewish Harlots.Description by Solomon.The Jews of Babylon.	Page
EGYPT, SYRIA, AND ASIA MINOR.
Egyptian Courtesans.Festival of Bubastis.Morals in Egypt.Religious Prostitution in Chalda.Babylonian Banquets.Compulsory Prostitution in Phnicia.Persian Banquets.
GREECE.
Mythology.Solonian Legislation.Dicteria.Pisistratid.Lycurgus and Sparta.Laws on Prostitution.Case of Phryne.Classes of Prostitutes.Pornikon Telos.Dress.Hair of Prostitutes.The Dicteriades of Athens.Abode and Manners.Appearance of Dicteria.Laws regulating Dicteria.Schools of Prostitution.Loose Prostitutes.Old Prostitutes.Auletrides, or Flute-players.Origin.How hired.Performances.Anecdote of Arcadians.Price of Flute-players.Festival of Venus Periboa.Venus Callipyge.Lesbian Love.Lamia.Hetair.Social Standing.Venus and her Temples.Charms of Hetair.Thargelia.Aspasia.Hipparchia.Bacchis.Guathena and Guathenion.Lais.Phryne.Pythionice.Glycera.Leontium.Other Hetair.Biographers of Prostitutes.Philtres.
ROME.
Laws governing Prostitution.Floralian Games.Registration of Prostitutes.Purity of Morals.Julian Law.diles.Classes of Prostitutes.Loose Prostitutes.Various Classes of lewd Women.Meretrices.Dancing Girls.Bawds.Male Prostitutes.Houses of Prostitution.Lupanaria.Cells of Prostitutes.Houses of Assignation.Fornices.Circus.Baths.Taverns.Bakers Shops.Squares and Thoroughfares.Habits and Manners of Prostitutes.Social standing.Dress.Rate of Hire.Virgins in Roman Brothels.Kept Women.Roman Poets.Ovid.Martial.Roman Society.Social Corruption.Conversation.Pictures and Sculptures.Theatricals.Baths.Religious Indecencies.Marriage Feasts.Emperors.Secret Diseases.Celsus.Roman Faculty.Archiatii.
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA.
Christian Teachers preach Chastity.Horrible Punishment of Christian Virgins.Persecution of Women.Conversion of Prostitutes.The Gnostics.The Ascetics.Conventual Life.Opinion of the Fathers on Prostitution.Tax on Prostitutes.Punishment of Prostitutes under the Greek Emperors.
FRANCE.HISTORY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.
Morals in Gaul.Gynecea.Capitulary of Charlemagne.Morals in the Middle Ages.Edict of 1254.Decree of 1358, re-establishing Prostitution.Roi des Ribauds.Ordinance of Philip abolishing Prostitution.Sumptuary Laws.Punishment of Procuresses.Templars.The Provinces.Prohibition in the North.Licensed Brothels at Toulouse, Montpellier, and Avignon.Penalties South.Effect of Chivalry.Literature.Erotic Vocabulary.Incubes and Succubes.Sorcery.The Sabat.Flagellants.Adamites.Jour des Innocents.Wedding Ceremonies.Preachers of the Day.
FRANCE.HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO LOUIS XIII.
The Court.Louis IX. to Charles V.Charles VI.Agnes Sorel.Louis XI.Charles VIII.Louis XII.Francis I.La Belle Feronniere.Henry II.Diana de Poictiers.Lewd Books and Pictures.Catharine of Medicis.Margaret.Henry IV.Mademoiselle de Entragues.Henry III.Mignons.Influence of the Ligue.Indecency of Dress.Theatricals.Ordinance of 1560.Police Regulations.
FRANCE.HISTORY FROM LOUIS XIII. TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Exile of Prostitutes.Measures of Louis XIV.Laws of 1684 and 1713.Police Regulations.Ordinance of 1778.Republican Legislation.Frightful state of Paris.Efforts to pass a general Law.The Court.Louis XIII.The Medicis.Louis XIV.La Vallire.Montespan.Maintenon.Literature of the Day.Feudal Rights.The Regency.Duchess of Berri.Claudine de Tencin.Louis XV.Madame de Pompadour.Dubarry.Parc aux Cerfs.Louis XVI.Philippe Egalit.Subsequent Sovereigns.Literature.Lewd Novels and Pictures.Tendency of Philosophy.The Church.
FRANCE.SYPHILIS.
First recorded Appearance in Europe.Description by Fracastor.Conduct of the Faculty.First Hospitals in Paris.Shocking Condition of the Sick.New Syphilitic Hospital.Plan of Treatment.Establishment of the Salptrire.Bictre.Capuchins.Hospital du Midi.Reforms there.Visiting Physicians.Dispensary.Statistics of Disease.Progress and Condition of Disease.

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