J. Edgar Hoover saw the political effectiveness of cracking down on elite brothel madams—but not their clients—in New York City.

Middle class members of the New York Female Moral Reform Society visited brothels to save women from sin. What they actually encountered surprised them.

In the early 20th century, journalistic exposés, novels, and vice commission reports trumpeted fears about "white slavery" sweeping the country.

Prostitution and sex work are useful metric for historians seeking insight into the American West.

Revisiting the struggle to keep prostitution from being criminalized in 1950s Japan.