Economics, Double Standards & the Innocence of Childhood On Juvenile Prostitution in Victorian England
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This paper focuses on the reasons why childhood prostitution expanded in the Victorian era, and how society and the media treated the problem. Using sources from the Times of London and several books about child sexual abuse during the Victorian era, the author claims that three factors were the key in this epidemic; economics, the double standard regarding sexuality and the image of childhood innocence, which was a new construct in the Victorian era.
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