The Case Against the Red Light

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Title

The Case Against the Red Light

Description

Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54.
Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary." 

Excerpt: 

"But every investigating committee that has reported on conditions in any large American city has condemned the whole buisness, although its members were often in favor of segregation when they began to investigate. 

The American army has tried all systems. General Pershing writes:

Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective, Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly that on the scientific side it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms 'abolition' as distinguished from 'regulation' is the only effective mode combating this age-long evil. 

Don't be misled by underworld arguments.

The Evidence is all against the red light."

Creator

American Social Hygiene Association, New York City

Source

M 9 Box 54, Folder "Social Hygiene" Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

Publisher

United States Public Health Service cooperating with the State Board of Health, Richmond, Virginia

Date

1920

Contributor

Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries

Rights

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Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

Notes

Learn more: 
Some Social Causes of Prostitution (1914), Social Welfare History Project

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Citation

American Social Hygiene Association, New York City, “The Case Against the Red Light,” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed March 19, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/12.