History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Josephine Butler, Margaret Sanger, Comstock Laws
2 Nov 2016
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Addressed 3 main issues: obscenity and censorship, prostitution and stds, eugenics and reproduction. Addressing the people that were the victims and the people that were the causes of the problems in the middle class. So, as per usual, they targeted anyone other than the white middle class. The idea was to weed out the people that were (cid:498)weak(cid:499) Women were locked up here and not allowed to leave, would have to stay. By 1864, 1 out of 3 sick cases in the army was related to these diseases. Continued to get more severe as time progressed. Police could arrest prostitutes in the army cities, and these women would have to undergo genital examination to see if they had diseases. Stds spread through prostitution were going to be controlled by this act. Its goal was to safeguard the health of men in the british military suspicion known as a lock hospital there until she was seen as cured.
