ΠΟΡΝΕΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΒΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΗΧΑΝΙΣΜΟΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΗΘΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑΣ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΡΟΔΟΠΗΣ 1936-1944
Date Issued
March 12, 2024
Type
Διδακτορική Διατριβή
Abstract
The issue of prostitution, of liberated sexuality, which was also related to the chaotic life of urban centers, was experiences of the interwar period for the state, which proved threatening to the growth of a working and disciplined population. Prostitution, prostitute, sexuality, apart from not being related to the institution of the family, was considered a threat to moral, ethical standards, which endangered the very existence of Greek and Bulgarian society, as shown by the study of the case of Rhodope 1936-1944.
Female prostitution in the area and period under consideration was instrumentalized for the national constitution and construction of the national bourgeois state by including in it a space that hid the dreams and ambitions of the hegemonic discourse. The prostitution and female delinquency in Rhodope in 1936-1940 and 1941-1944 was also related to the desired female model that the bearers of the patriarchal discourse of power wanted to shape in this era and in this region. Acceptable and legitimate was considered only whatever would aim at reproduction and served pursued state policy objectives. In addition to prostitutes, the restriction was placed on the libertine spirit, which has the ability to envisage, to emancipate, to experience sexual pleasure without family commitments, restrictions on procreation and the feeling of sexual romanticism, which becomes dangerous for the collapse of all kinds of restrictions and the overcoming of "fences" at the risk of questioning, disobedience, indiscipline. The prostitute, sexual freedom, the libertine spirit were associated with transgression, were considered dangerous and threats to the construction of the bourgeois state, while the disease associated with sexuality, syphilis, was treated and persecuted as the disease that would eat away the foundations for the creation of a healthy nation.
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