[C19fan]

The Contagious Diseases Act exposed the tensions in Victorian society between the Benthamites/Utilitarians who would push this law as a practical response to a public health issue and the moralists who questioned why the state should help facilitate immoral acts and how the Act was much more severe with the prostitutes, including mandatory three months hospitalizations if a prostitute has a STD, than with the men who used their services.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A prostitute is obviously a much greater threat to spread STD than a client. Especially if most clients revisit the same prostitute.