Download or read book Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens written by J. Laite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis.