Book contents
- The Sexual Question
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Sexual Question
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures*
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Regulating Prostitution
- 2 Protecting Men
- 3 Policing Women
- 4 Medicalizing Sin
- 5 Combating Venereal Disease
- 6 Abolishing Vice
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
5 - Combating Venereal Disease
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- The Sexual Question
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Sexual Question
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures*
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Regulating Prostitution
- 2 Protecting Men
- 3 Policing Women
- 4 Medicalizing Sin
- 5 Combating Venereal Disease
- 6 Abolishing Vice
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
Summary
This chapter examines how doctors became increasingly critical of the approach to contain venereal disease supported by the authorities and instead favored the promotion of sex education and compulsory treatment. These views, the chapter shows, started to take shape particularly among military doctors. The strategies developed to combat venereal disease in the Army and the Navy proved influential in how the Asistencia Pública approached venereal disease in the 1930s, leading to a significant expansion in treatment facilities in the capital and the establishment a national anti-venereal strategy. This expansion coincided with growing concerns among Peru’s medical community over venereal disease among the indigenous population. It also coincided with growing attention to prostitution from criminologists and sociologists who reframed debates over prostitution in the context of a broader discussion over sexuality and changing sexual mores.
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- The Sexual QuestionA History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s, pp. 191 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020