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Social scientist R. By , the Cowgate area of Edinburgh had become a notorious red light district with countless brothels and pubs. That same year, The Edinburgh Magdalen Asylum opens in the Canongate, originally as a half-way house for women coming out of prison. After four years it officially becomes a refuge for women who want to leave prostitution.
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They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Arguing that the atmosphere of violence and the location caused depression and a loss of self-respect among the women, he moved it to a rural location where remains for a further years. Later, in , Dr William Tait published Magdalenism, an account of sex working Edinburgh at the time.
There were three classes of brothels: the first for noblemen, merchants and military officers; the second for businessmen, clerks and theologians; and the third for soldiers, sailors and country folk. However, areas of new Town eventually became less upmarket and prostitution has started to occur in the East End, such as St.
James Square by A gradual extension of prostitution into the New Town continued into the s. A survey in found that when the General Assembly met in Edinburgh that the brothels were particularly busy.
In , Edwin Muir described the prostitutes of Edinburgh, moving freely between the working-class areas of the city and those reserved for the middle and upper classes, so demonstrating the extraordinary ability of these women to transgress class and gender boundaries.
Muir said:. The prostitutes [. In , Asher Barnard, the owner of the Kosmo club, was accused of running a clandestine prostitution operation in the club that involved men hiring women as dance partners for an entire evening and then taking them off-site for sex. About 15 women worked at the premises where immaculately dressed Bryce played host.
Bryce was permitted to continue running the brothel as it was rarely a source of trouble, although she was arrested regularly. In the Civic Government Scotland Act came into force; Edinburgh became the first city in the UK to effectively decriminalise brothels. This prohibited soliciting, but also gave Local councils the power to license massage parlours and saunas, effectively allowing brothels.
The number of saunas more than doubled between and In the mids, so called tolerance zones were set up in certain areas of the city. Following complaints by locals and police raids, many of these licensed operations have close down. In March , the Scottish National Party backed changes to prostitution laws to criminalise those paying for sex, but not those who sell it.
Did you know that Edinburgh has its own prostitute ghost called Rosie. Chambers under the bridge in town known as Niddry Street Vaults used to be used for all kinds of underground purposes including witchcraft, gambling and body smuggling.
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