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Defining and Regulating Prostitution from the Polish and European Perspective

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Lasocik Z.

Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs

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2021

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vol. 25

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issue 1

103-125

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Prostitution has not received the academic interest it deserves in Poland. On the one hand the issue of eroticism and human sexuality is a relatively strong cultural taboo, on the other research on prostitution raises numerous methodological difficulties. The purpose of this article is to explore two issues. The first is go back to unsatisfactory attempts to define the commercial sex. The second is to look at legal regulations regarding this issue in Poland and several European countries. At the level of sociological reflection, prostitution can be defined by referring to the elements of a specific interaction between two people, one o whom offers paid sex and the other of whom is interested in using such a service. Prostitution is defined completely differently in law and in several European countries, for example in Great Britain and Austria there are interesting legal provisions. But I propose my own definition of prostitution or sex work in which the eight elements are combined. As far as legal regulations of prostitution are concern four categories of countries can be mentioned in Europe. From these in which the provision and purchase of sexual services is prohibited, to those where prostitution is legal and the professional status of the person engaging in it is regulated. There is also variety of perceptions of prostitution as a social phenomenon and different typologies of policies implemented by individual countries. But it appears that further studies on sex business and prostitution as a social phenomenon are needed.

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“Regulating Prostitution and Controlling Venereal Disease in the Bohemian Lands at the End of the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century”

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Wingfield N. M.

Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen - Prague Economic and Social History Papers

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2014

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vol. 20

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issue 2

7-25

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This article analyzes the regulation of prostitution and attempts to control venereal disease in the Bohemian Lands at the end of the “long” nineteenth century, a time when arguments over prostitution raged among abolitionists, feminists, members of the bourgeois women’s movement, neo-regulationists, and others who debated whether prostitution should be tolerated, legalized, or abolished. Between 1899 and 1910, trafficking in women and “venereal peril”, issues intimately associated with prostitution, were internationalized. Attitudes toward prostitution varied among Habsburg-police and bureaucrats, but there was broad support for confining prostitutes in closed bordellos. The discussion highlighted the contrast between the ineffectiveness of regulation in the large and increasingly anonymous metropolises in Habsburg Central Europe, like Prague and Vienna, where the vice squads were allegedly rife with corruption, and the efficacy of regulation in small-to-medium-sized towns and cities.

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Prostytucja w międzywojennym Toruniu (szkic zagadnienia)

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Krzemiński T.

Rocznik Toruński

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2013

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issue 40

61-76

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Prostitution in interwar Toruń (the outline of the issue) The article constitutes an attempt to look more thoroughly at the question of prostitution which was a serious social issue in Toruń during the interwar period between WWI and WWII. Prostitution was part of everyday life and the folklore of the city; on the one hand it was condemned by the majority of the society, but on the other hand it was accepted within the so called „double morality”. The aim of the article is also to describe the women involved in prostitution and to analyse the causes of the problem. The issue of fighting and counteracting the phenomenon are only mentioned in brief, as the author con-centrates on the description of the various types and contexts of prostitution, its social reception and the estimation of the number of women professionally involved.

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Die Prostitution in Thorn der Zwischenkriegszeit (Eine Skizze des Problems) Der vorliegende Text ist ein Versuch, einen genaueren Blick auf das The-ma der Prostitution, die ein ernstes soziales Problem für Thorn in der Zwi-schenkriegszeit war, zu werfen. Die Unzucht war ein kleiner Teil des Alltags und eine Art von städtischer Folklore, ein Phänomen, das einerseits durch die breite Öffentlichkeit verach-tet wurde, auf der anderen Seite aber als Teil der sogenannten „Doppelmoralˮ akzeptiert wurde. Der Zweck dieses Artikels ist es, das Milieu der Frauen, die in diesem Bereich tätig waren, näher zu bringen und die Ursachen des Prob-lems zu analysieren. Fragen bezüglich der Bekämpfung des Phänomens wor-den nur angedeutet, weil sich Vortrag mehr auf der Charakterisierung der Methoden des Treibens der Unzucht, der sozialen Bewertung und Beurteilung, der Bestimmung der Anzahl von Frauen (oder vielmehr des Ausmaßes), die sich damit gewerbsmäßig beschäftigten, konzentriert.

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Zjawisko prostytucji w Starym Testamencie w etycznej ocenie autorów biblijnych

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Jodzio H.

Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny

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2014

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vol. 67

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issue 4

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The article discusses the problem of prostitution in Old Testament texts. First it analyses the vocabulary znh and qᵉdēšāh (qādēš) and then legal, narrative, prophetic and wisdom texts. The analysis shows that the phenomenon of prostitution was quite common in the ancient world. Narrative texts show that although accepted the prostitutes lived on the fringe of society. Moreover legal, prophetic and wisdom texts always give negative assessment of prostitution.

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Artykuł omawia problem prostytucji tekstach starotestamentalnych. Najpierw analizie poddano słownictwo znh i qᵉdēšāh (qādēš), a następnie teksty prawne, narratywne, profetyckie i mądrościowe. Na podstawie przeprowadzonej analizy można stwierdzić, że prostytucja była zjawiskiem dość popularnym na starożytnym Bliskim Wschodzie. Teksty narratywne pokazują, że choć akceptowane, prostytutki pozostawały na marginesie życia społecznego. Należy podkreślić, że teksty prawne, profetyckie i mądrościowe zawsze negatywnie oceniają zjawisko prostytucji.

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Defining and Regulating Prostitution from the Polish and European Perspective

“Regulating Prostitution and Controlling Venereal Disease in the Bohemian Lands at the End of the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century”

Prostytucja w międzywojennym Toruniu (szkic zagadnienia)

Zjawisko prostytucji w Starym Testamencie w etycznej ocenie autorów biblijnych