Collezione Antonio Belletti e Case Tolleranza, I Comportamenti ed i Presidi Medici
Lot consisting of: a framed enamel plaque Orinatory, a framed cardboard plaque with rules on venereal danger, two cases with medical devices, a case with photocopies of condom leaflets, a flit and a passageway in three copies not framed., The houses were places where prostitution was tolerated and were regulated by state laws. Over time, with the ordinance to always keep the tents drawn, they began to be called Case Chiuse. Access was allowed only to people over 18 years of age and they were also open in the morning, despite the fact that there were few that operated, but you could go there at any time of the day, except during the night, dedicated to rest, and during lunch. They were divided into luxury houses, of 1st, 2nd and 3rd category, like hotels, and were considered meeting points, like the exclusively male clubs, which crowded especially during the fifteen, the time of arrival of the new "girls". In the houses there were rules and prohibitions on how to behave and were displayed on signs in the waiting room. The rules mainly concerned behaviour, which had to be decent, such as "not to gross the public street" but to use the urinals present in the houses or the wasp pits, which were often placed in front of the houses, or not to spit on the ground, but to use the spittoons present in the houses. Some behaviour was forbidden, such as introducing weapons and sticks. An important aspect of the houses of tolerance was the medical one: all the "young ladies" were provided with a health book and received a medical examination every other day, in luxury and first category houses, once a week in the lower categories. It was also a legal obligation to display a sign in each room with instructions on the rules to be followed to prevent the spread of venereal diseases. In the houses there was no "obligation to consume", but around the 50s the madam, to free the room and renew the customers and especially the flannel, sprayed an insecticide of the time, the Flyt, to the cry "Giovanotti qui si fa fa flanella!", a word that comes from the French word flanelle, to go loitering or doing nothing.