Julia Laite is a lecturer in modern British and gender history at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Prostitution in London, 1885-1960 and is currently working on a book about trafficking in the early twentieth century'.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe irony of criminalising prostitution as a form of ‘modern slavery’Prostitution was criminalised in the nineteenth century in order to ‘save’ women from ‘sexual slavery’. Ironically,...