Nineteenth century Britain was laden with ideas of the feminist movement, to which the typical “feminine manner” (Hughes) was intolerable. As a result, women often counteracted the repeatedly raised controversy of prostitution, which evoked questions about venereal disease and the inequality between men and women during the Victorian era. There was an obsessive fear of venereal disease because it was viewed as an apparent weakness to the fighting capabilitie Theories of Human Learning and Cognition s of the British army. Hence, the Parliament enacted the contentious Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864 which suppressed prostitution in an attempt to protect working men. The Contagious Diseases Acts enabled military camps to arrested women on suspicion of being a prostitute, and forcibly inspect prostitutes through an internal examination for venereal disease in order to prevent the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. The introduction of these Acts provoked a major movement in which working women “defended prostitutes as victims of social injustice rather than as criminal miscreants.” (Walkowitz, page 140). Thus, the Contagious Diseases Acts greatly emphasized the immoral inequality experienced by women and further challenged a woman’s place in society, which ultimately highlighted the rights of women during the Victorian era. The Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (LNA) was created by two notable figures of the feminist movement, Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Josephine Butler. Acting under the LNA, Wolstenholme and Butler published an article about the Contagious Diseases Acts titled “Women’s Protest” in the Daily News saying, “…it is unjust to punish the sex who are the victims of a vice, and leave unpunished the sex who are the main cause…” (Butler-Grey 9). Women were subject to humiliating medical examinations, despite the fact that men were also responsible for the spread of venereal disease. One of the most notable figures concerned with the rights of Victorian women involving the Contagious Diseases Act, was Josephine Butler who described the legislation as allowing for “medical rape” (“The British Contagious Diseases Acts,” 2018). If the women refused to comply with the police, they faced imprisonment in lock hospitals for treatment regardless of financial, economic, social and emotional impact on the woman. The Contagious Diseases Acts repressed women as they were mostly biased toward women, emphasizing the gender hierarchies of the time. This “double standard” (Luddy) for men demonst Theories of Human Learning and Cognition rated how the roles of men were favored over those of a woman’s. The Acts presented the “false and poisonous idea” (McElroy) that women had no rights, and were nothing more than victims of the immorality of society. Britain during this time, was controlled by a society enthralled with the Christia>