Códigos morais e sociais da vida urbana de Campinas: a prostituição (1940-1965)

Abstract

This research linked to the CMU, when addressing Prostitution, in addition to readings. Legislation, pictures, used the method of oral history, with recorded interviews to reveal what the documents were silent. The testimonies and life reports of 60 men and 20 women, including prostitutes, provided a source of data to map the places of pleasure and eroticism in the city of Campinas from 1940 to 1965, where the brothels

favored sexual practices for men, while the women dedicated herself to the home, to the children, to serve the husband with modesty, without the righty to sexual fulfillment. Female and male roles followed the moral, social and religious codes of the social context.