Prostitution in Tunis
- Author: Daniel Lee
- Main Title: Trafficking in Women (1924-1926) , pp 228-231
- Publication Date: July 2017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/1f6b8a39-en
- Language: English
Throughout the interwar years, a public debate took place in Tunis on the subject of prostitution. In the mid-1930s the municipality’s plan to restructure the Hara, the Jewish quarter, also home to the city’s prostitution zone, its quartier réservé, led to a series of proposals over what to do with Tunis’ prostitutes. Some of the options included relocating the quartier réservé to the city’s medina, or even to transfer it to the outskirts of Tunis in order to create a satellite city overflowing with prostitutes, modelled entirely on Casablanca’s Bousbir. The impending resettlement of the quartier réservé sparked intense public discussion in literature, the press and in municipal meetings over the very nature, and indeed existence, of regulated prostitution in the protectorate. While some people sought to maintain the existing system of regulation in place, others, especially leading figures of the Socialist party (namely Dr. Elie Cohen-Hadria and Serge Moati), were outspoken critics of the system and sought an immediate ban on prostitution.
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