Street girls and night butterflies in the Kádár regime

It did not even exist on paper, so much so that the moral police department established to control it was also abolished - this was how the socialist state leadership approached prostitution. The enjoyment of bodily pleasures for their own sake did not fit into the socialist ideal of man, so prostitution was banned along with the nuns. But what is forbidden is an excellent breeding ground for blackmail, compromise and intimidation. So perhaps it is not surprising that the police not only turned a blind eye to the work of prostitutes, but also used them by state security.