Reglamento para el Ejercico de la Prostitucion en el Distrito Federal
Mexico City: 1913. 14pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern cloth, spine gilt. Very minor soiling. Very good. Item #6414
Mexican laws governing prostitutes in Mexico City. The first two articles define a prostitute, while the following sections go on to discuss registration, medical inspection, ordinances for brothels, penalties, and other relevant regulations. The regulation required registration of prostitutes and set conditions: women must be over eighteen, have lost their virginity, act of their own free will, and not suffer from incurable or venereal diseases. Inspections were conducted, and women who were convicted, pregnant, or underage were to be separated from prostitution. Houses where two or more women lived together to practice prostitution were considered brothels. The regulation treated prostitution as a matter of public order and health. Prostitution was first regulated in Mexico during the Second French Intervention. The present regulations were issued after the end of the Porfiriato, which was a particularly strict period for such laws; during the Profiriato and beyond, during the time defined by the present document, a significant percentage of Mexico's young women were employed in the sex trade, as other avenues of employment were not open to them. We locate a single copy of this work at Harvard.
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