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Storyville, Louisiana:

State v Church

Red Light District: an urban area concentrated in sex work

Madam,

wealthy female who provided apartments to sex workers for compensation

  • owned brothel
  • received percentage of workers' pay

SEX SELLS

Today, prostitution is not legal in the US, yet sex is one of the most profitable businesses in the country.

As a result, gender roles are changing...

We live in a country in which we are told to accept everyone for who they are, yet many of the nation's laws oppress our own citizens.

Younger generations of American children are constantly exposed to sexual matter and gender roles alternate than what they are used to.

Though church and state are legally separate in the United States, religion has influenced and continues to influence the country's laws, especially those regarding citizens' sexuality.

Influences

CAUSES

  • brothels
  • cribs
  • saloons

Iwan Bloch:

women lacked sexual desire if they were physically and mentally healthy

Sigmund Freud:

women only partake in sex to reproduce

Richard von Krafft-Ebing:

sex plays a major role in the function of human beings' existence

  • mass immigration
  • prevent interracial sex
  • (French settlers brought over French women as potential brides)
  • financial independence (single & immigrant women)
  • prevent extortion by local police (New Orleans' court received excessive complaints from women)
  • isolate "underworld"

"Women were merely the chattel of men, but through the course of human history have, thanks in part to Christianity, become individual beings, with rights and freedoms of their own... though they are still socially below man." -Richard von Krafft-Ebing

CONS

PROS

  • infertility
  • police corruption
  • political corruption
  • alcoholism
  • increase in crime; domestic violence
  • distracted Navy men
  • prostitutes were safer
  • sex exchange more convenient for workers and patrons
  • rail workers stayed occupied in their free time
  • financial stability for single & immigrant women
  • extra income for police & politicians
  • religious town residents relieved of witnessing sex work
  • economy boost

Sidney Story

  • New Orleans' Alderman
  • New Orleans residents shunned the idea of legalizing prostitution and red light districts
  • proposed an ordinance to create a red light district in New Orleans
  • GOAL: to centralize prostitution, taking sex work out of religious communities; make sex work taxable

Today's US homes consist of different types families.

EX) same-sex couples, single parent, multi-generation etc.

The government promotes alternative lifestyles through media, influencing the masses, yet laws have not adapted to fit the changes.

LINGERING EFFECTS

(as of 2011)

Then...

  • 11th in the number of HIV diagnoses

  • 3rd in rates of P&S syphilis
  • 4th in chlamydial infections

NOW...

  • 11th in TB rates

Do we let religion justify legal discrimination?

Should laws be adapted accounting for non-traditional lifestyles?

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