{"product_id":"the-underworld-sewer-a-prostitute-reflects-on-life-in-the-trade-1871-1909-9780803297975","title":"The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909","description":"For 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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803297975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.81d","brand":"Josie Washburn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643723444380,"sku":"9780803297975","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fe132d23-313f-44a9-ab02-35bdaf1b3660.jpg?v=1603857152","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-underworld-sewer-a-prostitute-reflects-on-life-in-the-trade-1871-1909-9780803297975","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}