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Prostitution in Algeria
Prostitution in Algeria is illegal under Article 343 (Ordinance of 17 June 1975) of the Algerian Penal Code. This article also prohibits the use of prostitution services, pimping, living with a prostitute, soliciting, and forcing others into prostitution.
According to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), until 2011, there were 19 brothels under police control out of the 171 that had previously existed in Algeria during the French colonial period, as was the case in Tunisia.
Despite the de jure prohibition by the Algerian Penal Code, clandestine prostitution exists in contemporary Algerian society. Men are also involved in homosexual and heterosexual prostitution.
During Ottoman rule, prostitution was tolerated and regulated.
A class of prostituted women was established in order to serve the celibate corps of janissaries sent to Algeria after the Ottoman occupation in the 16th century, mostly composed of Black (usually slave) women who had left their enslavers.
An official called the Mezouar was in charge of regulating prostitution. This official was always a Moor. The position was lucrative, as he collected a monthly levy per prostitute. He kept a register of prostitutes, and the women were not allowed to leave the brothels and public baths they worked in. A request for a prostitute was processed by the official, who authorized the prostitute to make an appointment and then taxed the fee for state revenue; however, prostitutes selected to serve ethnic Ottoman Turks were exempted from taxation. Any free Algerian woman, including a prostitute, could be killed by drowning if she violated the law by having sex with a European male slave.
Prostitution was also connected to slavery in Algeria. The Islamic Law formally prohibited prostitution. However, since the principle of concubinage in Islam in Islamic Law allowed a man to have sexual intercourse with his female slave, prostitution in the Islamic world was commonly practiced by a pimp selling his female slave on the slave market to a client, who was then allowed to have sex with her as her new owner; the client would then cancel his purchase and return the slave to her pimp on the pretext of discontent, which was a legal and accepted method for prostitution in the Islamic world.
Prior to the French takeover in 1830, it was estimated that there were 300 to 500 prostitutes in Algiers. The women were Moorish, Arab, and sub-Saharan Africans. Jews were not permitted to become prostitutes.
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Prostitution in Algeria
Prostitution in Algeria is illegal under Article 343 (Ordinance of 17 June 1975) of the Algerian Penal Code. This article also prohibits the use of prostitution services, pimping, living with a prostitute, soliciting, and forcing others into prostitution.
According to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), until 2011, there were 19 brothels under police control out of the 171 that had previously existed in Algeria during the French colonial period, as was the case in Tunisia.
Despite the de jure prohibition by the Algerian Penal Code, clandestine prostitution exists in contemporary Algerian society. Men are also involved in homosexual and heterosexual prostitution.
During Ottoman rule, prostitution was tolerated and regulated.
A class of prostituted women was established in order to serve the celibate corps of janissaries sent to Algeria after the Ottoman occupation in the 16th century, mostly composed of Black (usually slave) women who had left their enslavers.
An official called the Mezouar was in charge of regulating prostitution. This official was always a Moor. The position was lucrative, as he collected a monthly levy per prostitute. He kept a register of prostitutes, and the women were not allowed to leave the brothels and public baths they worked in. A request for a prostitute was processed by the official, who authorized the prostitute to make an appointment and then taxed the fee for state revenue; however, prostitutes selected to serve ethnic Ottoman Turks were exempted from taxation. Any free Algerian woman, including a prostitute, could be killed by drowning if she violated the law by having sex with a European male slave.
Prostitution was also connected to slavery in Algeria. The Islamic Law formally prohibited prostitution. However, since the principle of concubinage in Islam in Islamic Law allowed a man to have sexual intercourse with his female slave, prostitution in the Islamic world was commonly practiced by a pimp selling his female slave on the slave market to a client, who was then allowed to have sex with her as her new owner; the client would then cancel his purchase and return the slave to her pimp on the pretext of discontent, which was a legal and accepted method for prostitution in the Islamic world.
Prior to the French takeover in 1830, it was estimated that there were 300 to 500 prostitutes in Algiers. The women were Moorish, Arab, and sub-Saharan Africans. Jews were not permitted to become prostitutes.