Prostitution And Prostitution In America

During the time that Johnathan Swift was alive Ireland experienced a myriad of citizens with a number of children living in poverty. These children would then possibly move on to be thieves, try to leave the country to fight in war, or sell themselves away.Today, just in the United States alone, there are over 500,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2015. Although it seems like a relatively big number, homelessness in America has seemed to drop just a little. Alternatively, worldwide more than 3 billion people live off of $2.50 a day, more than 1.3 billion people are living in extreme poverty, and more than 1 billion children are living in poverty. Therefore, just like during the days of Johnathan Swift, we are experiencing poverty, it is just that nearly half of the world is experiencing poverty and it is not exclusive to one specific part of the earth. …show more content…
Therefore, even with new technologies and efforts to help these people, there is still a vast crowd struggling for food and clean water to survive. Alternatively, there are about 80,000 Americans that are arrested for prostitution or soliciting sex. Therefore, there more than likely are a myriad more prostitutes in the country. Countless studies report that the majority of prostitutes wish they could get out of prostitution and about 40% of them are former child prostitutes. Therefore, we do have prostitution in adolescents versus them growing up and becoming prostitutes as said by Johnathan