sentences:  They had the unanimous support of a Royal Commission in 1871, and by years of lobbying convinced Parliament to suspend the Acts in 1883 and repeal them in 1886, thus ending legalised prostitution.Parliament in the 1860s in the Contagious Diseases Acts ("CD") adopted the French system of licensed prostitution.The "regulationist policy" was to isolate, segregate, and control prostitution.