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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prostitution in Austria is regulated. Most prostitutes are migrants, mainly from the former Eastern Bloc countries. According to a recent TAMPEP study, 78% of prostitutes are foreigners. The last time prostitution was completely forbidden in Austria was under Maria Theresa of Austria, who shipped prostitutes along with other ...
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Prostitution in Austria is regulated. Most prostitutes are migrants, mainly from the former Eastern Bloc countries. According to a recent TAMPEP study, 78% of prostitutes are foreigners. The last time prostitution was completely forbidden in Austria was under Maria Theresa of Austria, who shipped prostitutes along with other "asocial" people down the Danube to the Banat. Since this did little to reduce prostitution, however, Austrian laws changed to consider prostitution as a necessary evil that had to be tolerated, but regulated by the state. In 1850, the physician Dr. Nusser of the Vienna police suggested that prostitutes be required to register with the police, receive medical examinations twice a week, and obtain special health certificates. In 1873, Anton Ritter von Le Monnier, head of the Vienna police, reformed Vienna's prostitution law, and health certificates have been obligatory since that time. Prostitutes who complied with the requirements of registration and examinations were no longer prosecuted by the police. A newspaper article of October 27, 1874 reported that 6,424 prostitutes had received health certificates and were under observation by police and health authorities. According to police estimates, at least 12,000 more women lived on the proceeds of "free love" without being registered. Most of these were factory workers who received so little pay that they needed the additional income. Of the registered prostitutes, 5,312 were unmarried, 902 widows, and 210 married. The youngest was 15 and the oldest 47 years old. Homosexual male prostitution (ยง 210 Strafgesetzbuch) was legalized in 1989. A major reason for legalization was to reduce the spread of HIV through regular medical examinations. Today prostitution in Austria is... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11928903
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  • ISBN-13: 9781157666356
  • Publisher: General Books LLC
  • Publication date: 6/5/2010
  • Pages: 158
  • Product dimensions: 7.44 (w) x 9.69 (h) x 0.34 (d)

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