Article ID: CBB208260697

Transience, Class and Gender in Interwar Sexual Health Policy: The Case of the Liverpool VD Scheme (2019)

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Focusing on the implementation of the Liverpool VD Scheme, this article reasserts the importance of morality to interwar medical understandings about the spread of venereal disease. Despite claiming to offer impartial, practical solutions to the spread of venereal disease, the Liverpool VD Scheme, created in 1916, reflected and promoted the notion that the transient lifestyles of many of the working class presented physical and moral threats to the city. This article therefore counters suggestions that the interwar control of venereal disease was shaped by practicalities rather than moralities. Evidence is provided for the persistence of a medico-moralising that continued to place working-class sexual practices at the heart of discussions about the spread of venereal disease. However, presumptions about men’s biological need for sex combined with the local importance of the port, meaning that working-class seamen with VD were judged less harshly than working-class women with the same infections.

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Authors & Contributors
Baron, Beth
Becky Taylor
Changboo Kang
Petrungaro, Stefano
Ware, Cheryl
Tsampiras, Carla
Concepts
Sexually transmitted diseases
Public health
Medicine
Prostitution
Medicine and government
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
New Zealand
Germany
Cairo (Egypt)
Ankara (Turkey)
Yugoslavia
Liverpool (England)
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