Prostitutia în societatea românească: între incriminare, toleranłă si legalizare
Prostitution within Romanian society: between incrimination,

Summary/Abstract: The herein study aims at underlining the ambivalent attitude, often contradictory, manifested within the Romanian society towards prostitution. In the following lines we will show that, despite the incrimination of this phenomenon, during the Middle Age, the Church and laic authorities tried to combat prostitution only when it seriously perturbed the social order (especially affecting the public health or the quiet and order from a suburb) or the natural course of a marriage (case in which the guilty woman was punished). In the same period, even God used in the State’s interest this social phenomenon. Within Modern Age, the Romanian State legalized prostitution, being concerned in maintaining public health, and after the Second World War it incriminated it again, under the influence of the communist morals. The Romanian society’s attitude towards the phenomenon of prostitution was inconsequent, changing, similar to the mioritic space theoretized by Lucian Blaga. Incriminated during Middle Age, legal in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, the prostitution is of interest even today, at the beginning of the 21st century, as a social and legal problem that waits solutions.

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