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“She opens with a conversation that she had with a doctor in the early 2000s and reflects on how he repeated the same discourses that she found in historical documents from the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. This illustrates the pervasiveness of ideas about medical checks for sex workers, residential segregation, the need for red light districts, and the need to police prostitution in order to combat disease, although concerns in the early 21st century are connected to the AIDS pandemic rather than Syphilis and Gonorrhea.” Read more...
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