User:HomoeroticMikePenceExperience/Prostitution in colonial India

Under Colonial rule, Prostitution in India gave way to an internal health crisis within British barracks. British soldiers stationed in Colonial India were contracting Syphilis and Gonorrhea at more than double the rate of local Indian Soldiers, leading to army hospitals packed with patients, using resources on relatively self-inflicted sexual casualties. The epidemic forced parliament to introduce legislature in an attempt to curb the rate of infection. These regulations were the Cantonment Acts and the Contagious Disease Act.

The regulations enforced invasive measures on the prostitutes in India like filing for a license to pimp (THIS IS SLANG _ rewrite) oneself and state mandated genital inspections. Most of the legislation came out of sexist and racist perspectives, like the belief in white superiority. In fact, British commenters and legislators alike kept looking for rationalizations as to why the British soldiers were collecting STDs in mass.