Lecture at the Jazz Museum

On Wednesday, November 12th, I will be giving a lecture at 2pm at the New Orleans Jazz Museum on the city’s early attempts at creating a Red Light District.

Before Storyville became synonymous with New Orleans’ vice and nightlife, the city experimented with an earlier—and largely forgotten—attempt to regulate prostitution. In 1892, the City Council passed an ordinance seeking to confine brothels to a designated district, require weekly medical examinations for prostitutes, and fund a new Charity Hospital wing for the “detainment and treatment” of women deemed diseased.

The lecture takes place at 2pm, 400 Esplanade Avenue and is free and open to the public.