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Public City/Public Sex - Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
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Public City/Public Sex - Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
Series: Sexuality Studies
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In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and
encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafes, dancehalls,
and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding
an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance
of "individuals of both sexes with depraved morals" in these
spaces. Andrew Israel Ross's illuminating study, Public City/Public
Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and
democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and
the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual
culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the
development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Public City/Public Sex
examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable
outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the
struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very
effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women
who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public
sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used
public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city
was understood.
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