Initially there were virtually no laws prohibiting or trying to regulate or control prostitution.

The testing is one of the measures that this city has taken to regulate prostitution, which has flourished here for decades.

The latter was a bill to regulate brothels and prostitution but was defeated in the upper house.

It also regulated opium sales and prostitution until their banning in 1918 and 1920 respectively.

It was suggested that this extension would regulate prostitution and stop street disorders caused by it in large cities.

The British sought to regulate prostitution as a matter of accepting a necessary evil.

However, during this century the city of Amsterdam started to regulate prostitution.

Municipalities vary in their approach to regulating prostitution, both indoor and outdoor.

Attempts to regulate prostitution were struck down on grounds that it is against the public good.

A similar effort to control the boundaries within which sexuality might legally be expressed was inherent in the late Victorian attempt to regulate prostitution.