dangers of procuring sex workers. Judith Walkowitz, however, suggests that by the mid-
nineteenth century, venereal disease was considered a public health crisis, as opposed to an
individual risk, and the image of the prostitute as a vessel of disease became more socially
and culturally pervasive. 23 Regulationist policing, therefore, served a secondary purpose by
controlling sexual bodies to control the spread of disease. In Britain, the policing of
prostitute’s sexual
23 Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp. 48-50
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