Prostitution in Ljubljana during the first three decades of the 20th century

Authors

  • Branka Grošelj

Keywords:

prostitution, Ljubljana, legal regulation, venereal diseases

Abstract

The contribution presents legal regulation of prostitution in Austrian penal legislation at the beginning of the 20th century, and gives a comparison of the mentioned legislation with penal legislation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and based on both legislations regulated prostitution in Ljubljana. The article deals with public and covert prostitution, and special attention is intended to procurement, white slave traffic and venereal diseases, which because of tight connection with prostitution should not be overlooked.

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