Certain considerations regarding the practice of prostitution in Romania of the first half of XXth Century

AuthorAndrei Tinu - Catalin Boboc
PositionFaculty of Law, 'Titu Maiorescu' University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania - Faculty of History and Political Sciences, 'Ovidius' University of Constanta, Constanta, Romania
Pages197-206
AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro
ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677
No. 1 (2013), pp. 197-206
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CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE PRACTICE OF
PROSTITUTION IN ROMANIA OF THE FIRST HALF OF XXth
CENTURY
A. Tinu, C. Boboc
Andrei Tinu
Faculty of Law,
“Titu Maiorescu” University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Faculty of History and Political Sciences,
“Ovidius” University of Constana, Constana, Romania
*Correspondence: Andrei Tinu, 94 Garlei St., District 1, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: andrei_tinu@yahoo.com
Ctlin Boboc
Faculty of History and Political Sciences,
“Ovidius” University of Constana, Constana, Romania
*Correspondence: Ctlin Boboc, 3 Aleea Mariorului St., Building FD 17, Entrance A, Apt.
2, Constana, Romania
E-mail: catalinboboc_constanta@yahoo.com
Abstract
Practice of prostitution is considered the oldest handicraft of the world. Discussion
about it aroused along centuries and is still arousing ardent talks. Our study tries to analyze,
from a legal and institution perspective, the practice of prostitution phenomenon in Romania
of the first decades of XXth century.
Key words: prostitution, Romanian legislation, institution, brothel, place.
Introduction
Extracted outside the law in 1936, the prostitution will continue to be a tacitly
protected handicraft by the Romanian authorities, including by the communist ones, even if,
in 1949, on Stalin day, the last brothels of Bucharest were closing their gates, and the
practitioners of the oldest handicraft in the world became responsible partners
1
. “Prostitution”
is not just a term with a strictly legal value, appointing a complex psycho-social phenomenon,
superficially treated the most of the times. For Laure Adler, “prostitution is a business of
couples: the girl-customer and brothel matron - girl couple; the sex-money, desire-unableness,
desire-perversion and imaginary-real couple”
2
. We will try to surprise, hereinafter, a few
elements - we say important - of the prostitution practice on the Romanian territory during the
first half of the XX century, but not without mentioning certain issues regarding the
prostitution and prostitutes in the whole world along the history, especially those related to
the establishing of this activity.
1
***Scurt istorie a prostituiei, non vidi, apud http://cersipamantromanesc.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/scurta-
istorie-a-prostitutiei-in-romania-2/, viewed on October 3rd, 201 2, at 21, 25.
2
Laure Adler, Casele de toleran între 1830-1930: viaa cotidian/ trad. Irina Cristea, “Corint” Publishing
House, 2004, p. 16.

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