Why were brothels legal?
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There are more than one interpretations of the world. When you say:
Why would countries obsessed with the supposed virtue of virginity and who believed that those who had sex outside of wedlock were likely or certain to go to hell, make brothels legal?
But this is only half the story. The other half of the world was obsessed with death, violence,sex and drugs. These are the people who made prostitution legal, and provided brothels for either convenience - you would go where to go, or for hygiene - which is unlikely.
As long as people will pay for sex, there will be prostitutes and brothels. And whose to say it wasn't the bishops charging the brothels just to exist.
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Currently in the world prostitution is legal in the majority of Europe, and European colonies, the largest exception being the US, where it is only legal in a few localized places. prostitution
Europe never had the same christian ideals revival that the United States had, examples of what i mean, the prohibition, which was predominantly at the hands of white Protestant women, the same women and mindset that also condemned prostitution in the US. Historically there was very little, order put into place in Europe, when it came to activities like prostitution. Even though the majority of the population would consider themselves "christian" many did not know what that even meant as most catholic services were held in Latin. The issue with having sex and going to hell, was more an issue of now I cant sell my daughter off to someone wealthy because shes "ruined" then a spiritual issue.
Even the most historically "christian" of the European countries such as Spain, have legal prostitution.
Your far more likely to find prostitution illegal in countries predominantly Muslim, or is Asian countries, the biggest exception here is japan, which has semi legal prostitution, though japan itself was the most heavily influenced by western culture.
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