In England, the Contagious Diseases Acts were passed in 1864, 1866, and 1869 to

protect men from venereal diseases.

From the early 1870s until these Act swere repealed in 1886, such activists waged
an active struggle in and out of Parliament.

Imperial feminism� gave British and American feminists and missionary women a space
to occupy within the discourse of the Contagious Diseases Acts
that were passed in India in 1868. After much agitation, in 1888, the British
government repealed the Contagious Diseases Acts in India,
but they were still in place under anew name, without mention of words such as
�prostitute,� �venereal,� and ��lock hospital.�21

The Acts were eventually suspended in 1883, and repealed in 1886.

1864, 1866, 1869 - Contagious Diseases Acts

Impose controls against prostitution, but are later repealed