Prostitúció a polgárosodó Nagyváradon
Prostitution in the Bourgeois Oradea (Nagyvárad)

Summary/Abstract: Based on unpublished judicial and administrative records, police declarations and evidences of prostitutes kept in the National Archives of Romania Bihor County Branch and on secondary literature, the paper focuses on the presentation of the brothels of Oradea (Nagyvárad) and of their leaders in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, in a time when society tolerated, but did not accepted entirely the phenomenon of prostitution. The paper deals as well with the attitude of the urban society, especially of those who lived in the proximity of these institutions towards these establishments and their residents.

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