Through the 360 pages of the two collectible volumes dedicated to the history of the brothels of Vourla in Drapetsona and their rich four-color visual material, for the first time, such a detailed, comprehensive, and fully documented history of the brothels of Vourla in Drapetsona is highlighted, covering the period from the 19th and 20th centuries to World War II.

The authors of the work, Spyros Papaioannou and Kostas Vlisidis, after years of painstaking research, deliver to the wide reading audience, to the specialist researchers, to the historians of gender and sexuality, to the researchers of the margins, to the book lovers and collectors, a multifaceted and multidimensional work that opens up new approaches to these topics.

The first volume of the work documents the history of the brothels of Vourla through written sources (archives, bibliography, and periodicals of the time).