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There have been few recent studies in the medical literature of the operation of legalized prostitution.1 The purpose of this paper is to outline the functioning of the system of legalized prostitution in Italy to which the members of the American armed forces now serving there have been exposed. An attempt has been made at complete objectivity: The facts have been reported both as described by persons intimately functioning within the system and as noted by American observers. Prostitution is the world's oldest profession. It has been in operation in different ages, in different forms, ranging from the furtive selling of sex by unlicensed prostitutes, ruthlessly suppressed by law, to the wide open systems vigorously encouraged and regulated by law and looked upon by civic leaders as a "necessary evil." It is a system of the latter type that now prevails in Italy. METHOD AND SOURCES This study was |
