Bernard Mandeville's "A modest defence of publick stews" : prostitution and its discontents in early Georgian England / edited with an introduction by Irwin Primer.
In A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1724) its reputed author Dr. Bernard Mandeville argues that the best solution to the problems of prostitution (with its related evils of venereal disease, infanticide and other crimes) is not to stamp it out (an impossibility) but to legalize it and regulate it...
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