In 1837, De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris ( Prostitution in the City of Paris ) was published by Alexander Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchatelet.

The group's first public performance, in October 1976, was alongside an exhibit titled Prostitution, which included pornographic photos of Tutti as well as used tampons.

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

Prostitution was relatively inexpensive for the Roman male but it is important to note that even a low priced prostitute earned more than three times the wages of an unskilled urban laborer.

Prostitution was overwhelmingly an urban creation.

Joe Conforte was featured in Look magazine, June 29, 1971, the article titled Legal Prostitution Spreads in Nevada by Gerald Astor, Look Senior Editor.

Prostitution was also shown in 2001 when Tracey turned to prostitution in order to pay for drugs.

Prostitution is still a feature of Commercial Street to this day, although considerably less evident than it was even at the turn of the millennium.

Prostitution was a growth industry attracting sex workers from around the globe, pulled in by the money, despite the harsh and dangerous working conditions and low prestige.

Nevertheless, police continued to raid brothels, streets, and private residences of sex workers right up to the day before the Prostitution Reform Bill was passed by Parliament.

After the adoption of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, several members of a United Nations women's committee that was looking at how New Zealand was keeping its commitment to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ) criticised the government of New Zealand for decriminalising brothels and pimping and asked it to repeal the new law.

A report on the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 was produced, with the aim of studying the effects of the new legal system.

It is clear, when reading the Act, the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 did not decriminalise violence, and the Police take action about violence when sex workers make complaints ( c. f., R v Connolly, a police officer who was jailed in 2009 for blackmailing a sex worker into giving him free sex ).

Melissa Farley, an opponent of the legislation, stated that the decriminalisation of prostitution had very negative effects ( e. g. an increase in human trafficking and street prostitution ) and that the NZ Prostitution Law Review Committee " was biased and blatantly favored the sex industry ".

For example, it appears that the State Department ignored material in the Prostitution Law Review Committee Report, which indicated there was no evidence of increased underage sex work in the New Zealand sex industry

Later on the ne serva agreements became enforceable by law Prostitution was not limited to slaves or poor citizens ; according to Suetonius ( albeit in a possible exaggeration ), Caligula when converting his palace into a brothel employed upper class " matrons and youths " as prostitutes.

Prostitution in the ACT was decriminalised in 1992 but restricted to those two suburbs.

The Law for Punishing Acts Related to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and for Protecting Children, which prohibited an adult from paying a person under the age of 18 for obscene acts, was passed in 1999.

Prostitution without compulsion and violence " was started by the government of Berlin.

Prostitution was a lucrative trade for the bailiff's servants as well as for the city treasury.

Prostitution itself was not prohibited.

Prostitution was defined as a legal profession in January 1988.

Prostitution was begrudgingly tolerated as long as it was confined to Commercial Street, thus kept out of the public eye.

The second, the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, requires states to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

* Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, 1957.

Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

** Reprinted 1963 as The Wolfenden Report: Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

The Prostitution Reform Act ( PRA ) passed its third reading on 25 June 2003.

a review on the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 had to be conducted three to five years after the Act came into force.

A private Bill, the Manukau City Council ( Control of Street Prostitution ) Bill 2005 led to hearings before a select committee, but failed to pass its second parliamentary reading on 11 October 2006 ( 46: 73 ).

The report " The Impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the Health and Safety Practices of Sex Workers: Report to the Prostitution Law Review Committee " from the Christchurch School of Medicine

provided the Prostitution Law Review Committee with the evidence based facts that it required to reach a conclusion about the effect of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on sex workers.

In its 2008 " Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the Operation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 " the committee provided further information on many of the cases and background of sex work in New Zealand.

*** Macdonald, C., " The Social Evil: Prostitution & the Passage of the Contagious Diseases Act ( 1869 )" in Brookes B, Macdonald C. and Tennant M. ( eds ), Women in History: Essays on European Women in New Zealand ( Allen Unwin, Wellington, 1986 ).

*** Public Health Association of New Zealand: Policy on Decriminalisation of Prostitution ( 2001 )

*** Public Health Association of New Zealand: Submission on the Prostitution Reform Bill ( 2001 )

* Redefining Prostitution as Sex Work on the International Agenda, by Jo Bindman, Jo Doezema, Anti-Slavery International, Published by Anti-Slavery International, 1997.

Prostitution rose in Berlin and elsewhere in the areas of Europe left ravaged by World War I.

" Additionally, the group sought " to ensure that the Sheriff's Office or the Town Police are never allowed to waste valuable Town resources ... to oppress our residents by the investigation or enforcement of violations of Laws that punish Truancy, Drug Trafficking, Prostitution, Obscenity, Organ Trafficking, and other Victimless ' Crimes '.

* Prostitution by country

In her 2007 report, Prostitution and trafficking in Nevada: making the connections, Melissa Farley presents the results of numerous interviews with brothel owners and prostitutes, she states that most brothel prostitutes are controlled by outside pimps and that they suffer widespread abuse by brothel owners and customers.

* " Former Prostitutes Wage War Against Prostitution " by Edward Lawrence, KLAS-TV Eyewitness News, September 5, 2007.

These laws were changed by the Prostitution Reform Act, passed in June 2003.

Alex Penk, Maxim Institute's Policy and Research Manager said that: " The report released by the Prostitution Law Review Committee today clearly shows that the Prostitution Reform Act is not making life safer for many of New Zealand's most vulnerable men, women and young people "

The Report also addressed issues raised by ECPAT New Zealand and the Stop Demand Foundation, and the claims made by those supporting the Manukau City Council ( Control of Street Prostitution ) Bill 2005

* Forced Prostitution in Turkey: Women in the Genelevs: a Report, by Anti-Slavery International, Anne-Marie Sharman.

The Convention is supplemented by the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict ( against military use of children ) and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography ( against sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography ).

* Sex in the City: The Prostitution Racket in Ireland by Paul Reynolds ( Author ), Pan ( 7 Nov 2003 ) ISBN 978-0-7171-3688-9

* Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy, Cambridge University Press ( Nov 2007 ) ISBN 978-0-521-70905-7

Although he voted against both the Prostitution Reform Act and the Civil Union Act ( two pieces of legislation strongly opposed by Christian groups ), he claims he did so due to concerns over the effects of the legislation as written, rather than any ideological opposition.