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Is Cyberprostitution Prostitution? New Paradigm, Old Crime, Brooke Campbell
Is Cyberprostitution Prostitution? New Paradigm, Old Crime, Brooke Campbell
Studio for Law and Culture
In any given industry, machines are rapidly replacing workers. Alternately celebrated as the liberation of the worker from the grind and peril of manual labor and lamented as the condemnation of the worker to lowered wages and/or the effeteness of unemployment, so-called “advances” in technology problematically recast the labor-capital relation as a human-machine relation. What does this process look like in the context of a criminalized industry like the sex industry? In this paper, I examine the way in which cyberprostitution — ostensibly, an advance in the technology of communication — places the conceptual terrain of prostitution into question. For …
Taylor V. Mayor And City Council Of Baltimore: Baltimore Sewerage And The City’S Agenda In The Early Twentieth Century, Christian Mann
Taylor V. Mayor And City Council Of Baltimore: Baltimore Sewerage And The City’S Agenda In The Early Twentieth Century, Christian Mann
Legal History Publications
Taylor v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore was decided by the Court of Appeals in 1917. Nettie Taylor sued the city in 1914 because of the disagreeable smell coming from the newly constructed Back River Sewage Treatment Plant. She sued for damages done to her hotel property by the odor. Taylor’s hotel was situated on a tract of land on Back River, in the Essex area. The hotel Taylor owned was partly a brothel as well as a saloon, which was a common establishment in the surrounding area. The Court of Appeals ruled in Taylor’s favor, ordering the city …