Poverty, exploitation, and bed fees: Sex work in interwar Lithuania

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Poverty, exploitation, and bed fees: Sex work in interwar Lithuania

In the interwar Republic of Lithuania, prostitution was legal until the mid-1930s. However, sex workers' health was strictly checked twice a week, and instead of an identity document, they were given so-called yellow passports which bore the results of the check.