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Articles I am using for new article I am editing: Prostitution in Mexico


 * 1) Gabbert, Ann R. “Prostitution and Moral Reform in the Borderlands: El Paso, 1890-1920.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 12, no. 4, 2003, pp. 575–604. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3704670.
 * 2) Fuentes, P. and F. Núñez Becerra (2017), "Prostitution in Mexico City", in Chaumont, J., M. Rodríguez García and P. Servais (eds.), Trafficking in Women (1924-1926): The Paul Kinsie Reports for the League of Nations - Vol. 2, UN, New York, https://doi.org/10.18356/55bba144-en.

The location of El Paso made it a successful point for prostitution to thrive. The border allowed for various individuals for the United States to enter a space where prostitution was considered legal.

Summary:

Prostitution was first regulated in Mexico during the French occupation in the 1860s.These regulations which consisted of registering oneself as a prostitute and of regular health care check ups was implemented to protect European soldiers from contracting sexually transmitted diseases, since sexually transmitted diseases particularly syphilis and gonorrea were spreading quickly. While in power, the French influenced the perception of sex work in various ways, as they categorized women based on their views of beauty and classified places where sex work was done depending on location and services available. Though the French enforced supervision of prostitutes as a way of protecting themselves from infections similar regulations remained after Mexico regained control. -- need more information regarding this/ is this true?

Need transition to speak about El Paso

In 1885 (looked at the source and it did not say anything about this specific year- I think I may bring back the phrase in the late 19th century and I will add source that I found on this)

(This is happening during a period of time so this is actually not in chronological order)

During the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz in the late 19th century regulations in the forms of monthly quotas, medical examinations, and photographic documentation were imposed upon prostitutes. Regulatory practices were most severe on the eve of the Mexican export-mining economic collapse, and had been met with backlash from women's rights groups in Oaxaca, Yucatán, and Veracruz

According to a 1908 study, economic concerns were the main reason for turning to the sex trade in Porfirian Mexico, at which time 15 to 30 per cent of Mexico City's young female population was employed in the sex trade.

During the Mexican Revolution and civil war, supplies to the cities were severely disrupted and many women prostituted themselves for food in the period 1913–1915. In the post-war period of reconstruction and consolidation during the 1920s and 1930s, many impoverished women in the cities turned to prostitution.

[Although morally pressured by the United States and the prevalent changes ongoing prostitution after World War I, El Paso's location served as a convenient place for prostitution to thrive. El Paso's proximity to the United States border allowed for quick and easy access by Americans after the abolishment of prostitution. The easy access to Mexico via the railroad from the United States and the economic success of prostitution gave way to a surge of women participating in this kind of labor. As prostitution increased so did the regulations. ] Wiki person moved this over here--- I don't think it belongs here but I can see why it was moved to this section.

In translocal border cities such as Mexicali in Baja California, local brothels and vaudeville theatres became spaces for American tourists, Asian laborers, and Mexican-American sex workers to intermingle in the 1930s. In the mid-2000s American men make up a significant clientele sector for sex workers in border cities, specifically Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana—more than two-thirds of female sex workers in these two cities had had at least one male U.S. client in the prior two months.

The revolutionary political and social reforms under Lázaro Cárdenas led to the end of the regulation of prostitution in 1940.

It has been argued that neoliberal reforms instituted in the late 1990s under the PRI administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari—including the signing of NAFTA in 1994—incubated adverse economic conditions that caused the migration of indigenous women from southern Mexico to northern border locales to find work in the sex trade or in maquiladoras. Violence against sex workers in Ciudad Juárez has been connected to similar atrocities committed against maquiladora workers.