1920s prostitution naples

1920s prostitution naples. Sources conirm the national trend for Naples, where 50 per cent of the prostitutes were from the city and its province, 46 per cent from Sicily, Puglia and other southern communes, 3 per cent from central and northern Italy, and 1 per cent was foreign.

Reprinted: Naples, Naples, one-time Arcady of Bourbon kings and queens, has seen better days.

According to the law, prostitutes kept one fourth of the money paid by each client, but madams often overcharged for clothes and toilet articles, thus creating a debt-bond trap for some of their employees.