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The History of Prostitution

by William SANGER (1819 - 1872)

Chapter 11 - Italy

Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician, and may never have heard of or read any of the luminous treatises which professedly simplify science, yet he knows very well that for every effect there must be some adequate cause, and for this he generally searches diligently till he can find and remove it. But here, in the city of New York, is a population who claim to be as intelligent as any on the Western continent, who have been for years suffering from the effects of a vice in purse and person; who have paid and are paying every year large sums of money on account of it; who witness every day some broken constitution or ruined character resulting from it, and who yet have never thought of seeking out the cause! Is it now too late to enlist your sympathies in the undertaking? Hence we conclude that propriety, expediency, public safety, private interest, and common sense demand an investigation like this now submitted to the reader. (from the Introduction)

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Listen next episodes of The History of Prostitution:
Chapter 23 - Great Britain: History to the Time of the Commonwealth, Part 2 , Chapter 25 - Great Britain: Prostitution at the Present Time, Part 2 , Chapter 25 - Great Britain: Prostitution at the Present Time, Part 3 , Chapter 35 - New York: Prostitutes and Houses of Prostitution, Part 2 , Chapter 36 - New York: Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, Part 2 , Chapter 36 - New York: Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, Part 3 , Chapter 36 - New York: Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, Part 4 , Chapter 37 - New York: Remedial Measures, Part 2 , Chapter 37 - New York: Remedial Measures, Part 3 , Chapter 37 - New York: Remedial Measures, Part 4 , Chapter 12 - Spain , Chapter 13 - Portugal , Chapter 14 - Algeria , Chapter 15 - Belgium , Chapter 16 - Hamburg, Part 1 , Chapter 16 - Hamburg, Part 2 , Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 1 , Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 2 , Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 3 , Chapter 18 - Leipzig , Chapter 19 - Denmark , Chapter 20 - Switzerland , Chapter 21 - Russia, Part 1 , Chapter 21 - Russia, Part 2 , Chapter 22 - Sweden and Norway , Chapter 23 - Great Britain: History to the Time of the Commonwealth, Part 1 , Chapter 24 - Great Britain: History from the Commonwealth to the Present Day , Chapter 25 - Great Britain: Prostitution at the Present Time, Part 1 , Chapter 26 - Great Britain: Syphilitic Diseases , Chapter 27 - Mexico , Chapter 28 - Central and South America , Chapter 29 - North American Indians , Chapter 30, Barbarous Nations, Part 1 , Chapter 30, Barbarous Nations, Part 2 , Chapter 30, Barbarous Nations, Part 3 , Chapter 31, Semi-Civilized Nations, Part 1 , Chapter 31, Semi-Civilized Nations, Part 2 , Chapter 31, Semi-Civilized Nations, Part 3 , Chapter 32 - New York: Statistics, Part 1 , Chapter 32 - New York: Statistics, Part 2 , Chapter 32 - New York: Statistics, Part 3 , Chapter 33 - New York: Statistics, Part 1 , Chapter 33 - New York: Statistics, Part 2 , Chapter 33 - New York: Statistics, Part 3 , Chapter 34 - New York: Statistics, Part 1 , Chapter 34 - New York: Statistics, Part 2 , Chapter 35 - New York: Prostitutes and Houses of Prostitution, Part 1 , Chapter 36 - New York: Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, Part 1 , Chapter 37 - New York: Remedial Measures, Part 1