A 150 éves Budapest és a prostitúció, régi és új botrányaival, tragédiáival

Abstract

For thousands of years, the glitzy, proud, flashy, glamorous inner city has been an essential part of the cities that developed on commercial hubs, and there is a hidden face at the back, where poverty, crime, violence and prostitution exist in the service layer of the glitzy city. This phenomenon is found in every big city. In this paper, we will examine to what extent prostitution was and became a part of Budapest's life in the first 150 years, whether the city's organizing and directing will bring any change in the organised but secret, mostly nightlife from the beginning, and if so, in what way, how did the roles, problems, networks and methods of nightlife participants evolve, what demands were made by nightlife consumers and at what price could the service providers meet them (or did the service providers shape tastes and expectations in this area)?