By Jessica R. Pliley

ISBN-10: 0674368118

ISBN-13: 9780674368118

America’s first anti–sex trafficking legislation, the 1910 Mann Act, made it unlawful to move girls over nation traces for prostitution “or the other immoral purpose.” It used to be intended to guard girls and women from being seduced or bought into sexual slavery. yet, as Jessica Pliley illustrates, its enforcement resulted extra frequently within the policing of women’s sexual habit, reflecting conservative attitudes towards women’s roles at domestic and their pursuits in public. via mentioning its mandate to halt illicit sexuality, the fledgling Bureau of research won access not just into brothels but in addition into deepest bedrooms and justified its personal expansion.

Policing Sexuality hyperlinks the campaign opposed to intercourse trafficking to the fast development of the Bureau from a number of dozen brokers on the time of the Mann Act right into a ambitious legislations enforcement association that cooperated with country and municipal experts around the kingdom. In pursuit of offenders, the Bureau usually intervened in family squabbles on behalf of guys rationale on tracking their better halves and daughters. operating prostitutes have been imprisoned at dramatically elevated charges, whereas their male consumers have been seldom prosecuted.

In upholding the Mann Act, the FBI bolstered sexually conservative perspectives of the chaste girl and the decent husband and father. It equipped its nationwide strength and status by means of increasing its criminal authority to police americans’ sexuality and via marginalizing the very ladies it was once charged to protect.

By Neil H. Cogan

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