In this thesis I analyze the medical, hygienist, legal and police discourses on prostitution in
Belém from 1900 to 1945, and how the prostitutes were protagonists and active in the face of
these control mechanisms. The prostitutes who circulated in the republican and modern Belém
lived in a socio-economic and culturally diverse space, a city of codes, rules and symbols
influenced by the Belle Époque, a period in which prostitution gained greater visibility,
previously reclusive to private care, the prostitute began to expose herself in the streets,
boulevards and cafes. From the discourses on prostitution, I present the cultural changes and
the implementation of new codes and rules of behavior. The arrival of foreign and national
women in the Amazon. Discussions and narratives about the "white traffic" and the crusade
against caftism. Through the crimes of pimping that the owners of pensions and brothels
responded, I expose how the brothel world was profitable and contributed to the city's
economy. How they acted doctors, hygienists and public authorities in an attempt to
implement hygienic and disciplinary measures in the homes of prostitutes. I present the cases
of infanticide and abortions committed by prostitutes and how they were judged and their acts
displayed to society. an unwanted pregnancy. I discuss the institutionalization of medicine in
Belém and what are the medical thoughts about the female body. I describe the arrival of the
services of Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases within the context of sanitarianism. The concern
of doctors with the prostitutes defined as the main responsible for the “venereal disease.”
Measures to regulate prostitution and initiatives to control to oar and to fix the women in a
determined place to only exercise the prostitution there. I approach the moral discourses and
how the prostitutes were not intimidated by this resource that tried to stop the sale of sex and
their freedom to come and go in the city. I point out that the presence of alcohol and
drunkenness was used by the judicial apparatus to incarcerate and control prostitutes. Finally,
I tell a little about the affective life of the prostitutes, their loves, passions and the violence
they suffered, for not fulfilling the desired model/standard of a woman.
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