{"product_id":"9780803297975","title":"The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to \"throwing a searchlight on the underworld,\" including the \"cribs\" of Nebraska’s largest city. \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e, based on her own experience in the profession, blazes with a kind of honesty unavailable to more conventional moral reformers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1909, \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e asks why \"the social evil\" is universally considered necessary or inevitable. Washburn minces no words in exposing the conditions that perpetuate prostitution: the greed and graft of landlords, pimps, alcohol vendors, dope dealers, police officers, city administrators, and politicians; the competition for circulation by sensation-seeking newspapers; the indifference or intolerance of law-abiding, church-going citizens; the false modesty that prevents family discussion of venereal disease; the double standard that allows men to indulge their sexuality but punishes women who do so.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNP - Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016520188144,"sku":"9780803297975","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803297975_p0.jpg?v=1763740219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803297975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}