{"product_id":"9780803297975-the-underworld-sewer","title":"The Underworld Sewer","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909\u003cbr\u003eFor twenty years the author lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to \"throwing a searchlight on the underworld,\" including the \"cribs\" of Nebraska's largest city. Thia title tells her experience.\u003cbr\u003eFor twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to \"throwing a searchlight on the underworld,\" including the \"cribs\" of Nebraska's largest city. \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e, based on her own experience in the profession, blazes with a kind of honesty unavailable to more conventional moral reformers. Originally published in 1909, \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e asks why \"the social evil\" is universally considered necessary or inevitable. Washburn minces no words in exposing the conditions that perpetuate prostitution: the greed and graft of landlords, pimps, alcohol vendors, dope dealers, police officers, city administrators, and politicians; the competition for circulation by sensation-seeking newspapers; the indifference or intolerance of law-abiding, church-going citizens; the false modesty that prevents family discussion of venereal disease; the double standard that allows men to indulge their sexuality but punishes women who do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56053734015350,"sku":"9780803297975","price":23.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26883827.jpg?v=1754455125","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780803297975-the-underworld-sewer","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}