Sexy Times

By bamb

  • 1st? City Ordinance empowering board of health to register and inspect prosts

    St. Louis, Missouri

  • 1st (separate) Women's Reformatory founded in Indiana

  • Physicians first write of "American Plan"

  • 1890s Society for Prevention of Crime started in NY - one of 1st private organizations to do antiprost work

  • 1st Eugenics Sterilization Law Proposed - Michigan

  • Committee of Fifteen - antiprost group formed in NY to police immigrant/working class communities

    funded by John D Rockefeller Jr

  • 1st Eugenics Law Passes - Indiana

  • 1st Law allowing brothel closure by govt w/o charges brought or court (Iowa)

  • Mann Act

  • Section 79 of Inferior Courts Act AKA Page Law (NY) - any woman convicted of vagrancy/prost requires examination and if infected must be imprisoned & treated by state

    • leads to creation of Women's Night Court in Greenwich Village (court for women convicted of moral defenses)
    • Struck down 1 YR later
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    Brothels Closing

  • Municipal Clinic opens in SF

    • required examination for prosts (they had to pay for)
    • creation of photographic registry
    • given certificate of treatment
    • refusal = prosecution or forced exam

  • CA 1st state to require physicians to report STIs to state and add G & S to list of diseases that need carriers to be quarantined

    SNOW

  • CA passes Red Light Abatement Act

    passed 1913, in effect 1914
    see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Light_Abatement_Act

  • Hoke v US

    court rules congress cannot regulate prostitution per se (that is state jurisdiction) but congress CAN regulate interstate travel for it and other immoral purposes

  • American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA) founded - lobby for antiprost laws, reporting by their investigators

    • marriage of abolitionists and social hygienists
    • antiprost, white slavery w/ regulationist goals (sex ed, compulsive reporting, expanded treatment)
    • Rockefeller $, Snow headed

  • Caminetti v US

    Mann Act encompasses other noncommercial sexual liaisons

  • 6+ states pass laws legalizing sterilization of "defectives" and "feeblemindedness"

    • race + promiscuity played big roles in

  • Summer - Snow learns most soldier STIs originate at home

  • CTCA forms Commission on Training Camp Activists to control military recreation, suggest how to regulate/police

    Fosdick
    April ?

  • Amendement to Section 12, 13 of Selective Service Act - sets radius and puts police in charge of vice repression

    CTCA & Council of National Defense

  • CA adapts rules to inspect, isolate w/o due process

    July (SF) - State Health Board and War Dept meeting on STIs, 7 resolutions to police, isolate prosts and "low women" // laws later adopted

  • Law Enforcement Division of CTCA created

    • undercover officers told to focus on black communities
    • if cities refused to cooperate, $ penalties (cities placed out of bounds for soldiers, etc)
    • staff assisted by FBI
    • Fosdick

  • Surgeon General tells states to quarantine infected & carriers, all arrested ppl must be tested, suppress prost

    Surgeon General Rupert Blue

  • Committee for Protective Work for Girls created by CTCA - all women group

    • maintain reformatories
    • push for detention centers in camp towns
    • expand policing from prost to all women suspected of having sex outside of marriage
    • most were "wayward" women who rejected "middle class sexual mores" BUT
    • not given enough funds for individual case work

  • US enters WWI

  • The American Plan officially enacted under Chamberlain-Kahn Act

    to combat the spread of venereal disease during WWI, govt given power to quarantine any women suspected of having an STI, military can arrest any women w/i 5 miles of military cantonment, medical examination required and if positive, can constitute proof of prostitution, by end of WWI 15,520 prosts imprisoned (est. 30,000 detained) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamberlain-Kahn_Act
    https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-kahn-act-std-venereal-disease-imprisonment-women

  • US Public Health Service publishes model law for states w/ 12 recommendations

    main things: mandated VD reporting, quarantine, prohibit treatment w/o prescription, spread of is unlawful, records secret unless you're a "menace", prost is a big source of VD

  • Section on Reformatories and Detention Houses created under Law Enforcement Division of CTCA

    • March (?), Fosdick
    • CTCA focus less on protection, more on punishment and removal

  • CPWG moved under Law Enforcement Division of CTCA

  • AG pushes attorneys for those suspected of lock up w/o trial

    AG Thomas Watt Gregory

  • Legislation like Section 79 re-passed in NY

    • calls for lock up all suspected women
    • April (?)

  • Laws recommended enacted almost everywhere // by the end reporting and quarantine laws in 41 states

  • WWI ends

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    18,000 Women in federally funded institutions

    • More in state and private institutions
    • usually segregated w/ worse conditions in non-white reformatories

  • Military takes back oversight of their recreational activists from CTCA

  • Testimony of Adrian, MI proves horrors of detention houses BUT instead of recognizing the problem, higher-ups thinks program needs to be harsher

  • Act 272 of Public Health Bills AKA Dunn Bill in Michigan - mandatory reporting, investigation

    • Dunn is an avowed eugenicist
    • introduced March, passed in April after eliminating "reasonably suspected" clause BUT the ways in which the law is enacted disregards this
    • in practice: mandates reporting w/ names and addresses of carriers, says all prosts & consorts are suspected cases, refusal to be tested is proof you are infected and must be quarantined, only active/infected cases quarantined, lady drs recommended 4 exams

  • "AP" term occurs in ASHA publication "Social Hygiene Bulletin"

    • AP becomes coinage for govt STI program

  • Summer - CTCA investigators xfered to ISHB

  • Chamberlain-Kahn creates Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board to take over regulating undesirable women AND Division of VD

    • Part of Army Appropriation Act of 1919
    • Snow is secretary of ISHB
    • CK provides $ for prevention, control, treatment
    • states must qualify for funding by sticking to the model rules
    • Division of VD in USPHS to study, prevent, eliminate spread of STIs across state lines

  • Eight Point Plan

    War Department, the Navy, the Federal Security Agency, and state health departments crafted the Eight-Point Plan, a set of measures intended to curb the spread of STDs “in areas where armed forces or national-defense employees are concentrated.” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/during-world-war-ii-sexually-active-women-were-a-national-security-threat/409555/

  • late 1930s, early 1940s

    military sex education campaigns - posters, pamphlets, films
    warned against prost, easy women

  • May Act

    Federal Offense to solicit sex near military base see: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/during-world-war-ii-sexually-active-women-were-a-national-security-threat/409555/

  • Social Protection Provision

    Govt created agency - goal: to combat prostitution in these(?military base?) areas, and appointed Eliot Ness, a Prohibition agent who had helped indict Al Capone, as its head