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white-slave traffic

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white-slave traffic: see prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males.
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rushed the United States White-Slave Traffic Act (now known as the Mann Act) through Congress.
The "white slavery" panic: anti-prostitution activists have been ... by McNeil, Joanne / Reason
Specifically, I analyze the intertwined histories of two federal statutory provisions that created explicit legal categories of illicit sex: the "immoral purpose" provisions of the Immigration Act of 1907 and the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (also known as the Mann Act).
Immoral purposes: marriage and the genus of illicit sex by Dubler, Ariela R. / Yale Law Journal
92) These activists' efforts resulted in rescue homes for prostitutes that "suggest memories of the underground railroad"(93) and culminated in passage of the White-Slave Traffic (Mann) Act in 1910, which criminalized interstate transportation of women for immoral purposes.
Men who own women: a Thirteenth Amendment critique of forced ... by Katyal, Neal Kumar / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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