William Acton

Standard Name: Acton, William

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1857

William Acton 's Prostitution advocated of the control of prostitution through state regulation.

Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.

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1865

Dr William Acton famously asserted that the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind.

Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.

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Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.

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The comment was reported in his Functions and Disorders...

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