Contact Admin. My next book, Company Town which is currently available for pre-order , takes place on an oil rig on the Atlantic, km NE of St. I thought I was being clever about the legality of prostitution in Canada, until the Tories fucked up my whole premise.
I wrote two departmental honors theses during my time at my little Jesuit alma mater, and the first was on enforced prositution in Nazi concentration camps. This is a real thing. The Imperial Japanese Forces did it, too. When Hawaii was under martial law during World War II, the US military ran vice squads that standardized the price for seeing a brothel worker. They needed his expertise, once American GIs started making use of those women during their occupation of Japan between and In Germany, Japan, and Hawaii, prostitution was entirely legal, but not open.
Licensed sex workers then had to comply with mandatory health inspections and live in designated brothels. The regulations were so strict that by , according to historian Dagmar Herzog , cities like Cologne had 1, unlicensed sex workers on the streets simply because they could not afford to comply with regulations.
But by , that open-ness was gone. Women who were suspected of prostitution i. Unless you were Jewish. Jewish sex workers were granted no license. It was from the latter camp that Himmler, architect of the enforced prostitution effort, first suggested candidates for prostitution be culled from. When sex workers talk about fearing the impact of regulation on their personal safety , they have historical precedent for doing so.
Consider the fact that Hawaii only just now ended the police exemption for sex with prostitutes. Or that police officers all over America are under investigation for raping prostitutes. Consider that Gary Ridgway killed 48 women , most of whom were sex workers who felt afraid to talk to police.
