A Salute to those who have laid down their lives for our freedoms and to the lovely ladies who helped them get through the stresses of war...
Attachment 7484
Excerpt in History:
1941-1944"Entertainers" in Honolulu, HI
"Between 1941 and 1944, about 250 prostitutes were registered as ‘entertainers’ with the Honolulu Police Department. Each paid $1 a year for her license and was expected to report her earnings and pay taxes on them.
Approximately fifteen houses of prostitution operated in Honolulu.
Prostitution was illegal in Hawaii as it was on the mainland...In Hawaii, the May Act [signed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 to prohibit prostitution aimed at servicement] had been assiduously avoided, although enforcement provisions specifically applied to American territories as well as states...
The military and many people in Hawaii approved of them [brothels] because, in the face of what they saw as unstoppable urges and acts, the houses seemed to keep venereal rates relatively low.
The brothel district, in one form or another, had existed for decades to serve the huge deployment of marines, sailors, and soldiers...and also to service the disproportionately male population of plantation workers who made Hawaii’s prewar economy go...On September 21, 1944, Governor Stainback...ordered the regulated brothels shut down."
Beth L. Bailey and David FarberThe First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii, 1994
Happy Memorial Day!...Jules
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