Prostitution in Budapest in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

What is it about?

A concise history of prostitution in Budapest and the legislation that regulated it in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, including urban locations for both legalised and covert prostitution.

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Why is it important?

Prostitution in Austria-Hungary, similar to other parts of Europe, was seen as a necessary evil that could not be eradicated, and its unprecedented expansion to the public spaces of Vienna and Budapest a consequence of urbanization. Regulationism predominated over other approaches as a policy within government and municipal structures. In comparison with Vienna, which was a Catholic stronghold, late nineteenth-­‐century Hungary traditionally practiced a much more laissez-­‐faire attitude.

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