The History of Prostitution: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The History of Prostitution, credited to William Sanger, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The History of Prostitution by William Sanger. Read in English by Anna Simon; Josh Kirsh; Arnie Horton; drakaunus; Leni; Ann Boulais; Philip Panos; csheeler; PrismStars; Gina Marie; Lucretia B.; David Lawrence; Jeff K.; Robert Sherman; Timothy O'Riordan; tovarisch; Kadier Carter; Peter Yearsley; Bev J Stevens; Arielle Lipshaw; Ramon Escamilla; Uday Sagar; Bill Boerst; Mina Anderson; Samantha Miles; KHand Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician, and may never have heard of or read any of the luminous treatises which professedly simplify science, yet he knows very well that for every effect there must be some adequate cause, and for this he generally searches diligently till he can find and remove it. But here, in the city of New York, is a population who claim to be as intelligent as any on the Western continent, who have been for years suffering from the effects of a vice in purse and person; who have paid and are paying every year large sums of money on account of it; who witness every day some broken constitution or ruined character resulting from it, and who yet have never thought of seeking out the cause! Is it now too late to enlist your sympathies in the undertaking? Hence we conclude that propriety, expediency, public safety, private interest, and common sense demand an investigation like this now submitted to the reader. (from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The History of Prostitution
• Author credits: William Sanger
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 63
• Listed recording duration: 31:55:31

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• prostitution
• society
• social ills

Opening tracks: first 24 of 63

1. 00 - Introduction — 54:08
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - The Jews — 11:27
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor — 6:43
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - Greece, Part 1 — 26:19
5. 04 - Chapter 3 - Greece, Part 2 — 25:50
6. 05 - Chapter 4 - Rome, Part 1 — 28:18
7. 06 - Chapter 4 - Rome, Part 2 — 31:29
8. 07 - Chapter 5 - The Early Christian Era — 19:16
9. 08 - Chapter 6 - France: History During the Middle Ages — 39:28
10. 09 - Chapter 7 - France: History From the Middle Ages to Louis XIII — 32:18
11. 10 - Chapter 8 - France: History from Louis XIII to the Present Day — 37:00
12. 11 - Chapter 9 - France: Syphilis — 24:05
13. 12 - Chapter 10 - France: Present Regulations — 37:49
14. 13 - Chapter 11 - Italy — 34:46
15. 14 - Chapter 12 - Spain — 23:58
16. 15 - Chapter 13 - Portugal — 5:42
17. 16 - Chapter 14 - Algeria — 27:07
18. 17 - Chapter 15 - Belgium — 5:49
19. 18 - Chapter 16 - Hamburg, Part 1 — 38:59
20. 19 - Chapter 16 - Hamburg, Part 2 — 37:20
21. 20 - Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 1 — 35:37
22. 21 - Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 2 — 27:42
23. 22 - Chapter 17 - Prussia, Part 3 — 28:55
24. 23 - Chapter 18 - Leipzig — 8:28

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