The History Of Prostitution

Prostitution has been around in the world for thousands of years and has been seen throughout history all over the world. The legality of prostitution has changed from country to country over the years and each country still has its own rules surrounding prostitution. I will briefly discuss the similarities in prostitution in four different countries around the world, which are Thailand, France, Morocco and India. In Thailand, which has a population of 67,448,120, prostitution is seen as illegal, but it is still a common occurrence in the country. The text mentions that female sexuality does still play an important role in the economics of Thailand and that any see it as means to be able to support their family and provide basics to their …show more content…
Over 100,000 people are actively prostituting in just one city in India and for over a millennium, parents have been giving their daughters to a religiously sanctioned life in prostitution, meaning that many sex workers in India are children or started out as children in the life of prostitution. Now I knew before reading this, that many people in India are very religious and are known for doing extreme things in the name of it, but I had not realized that giving their daughters over to prostitution in the name of religion was something that they did. Now I don’t want to criticize another country without ever lived there or without really knowing much about them, but it is insane to me to believe that they think it is alright to put their daughters, as young as six years old into a life of prostitution, to please a …show more content…
It does not seem that having the act of prostitution as legal or illegal makes much of a difference in the availability of sex workers in the country and many countries are trying to bring in more money, which is why they offer children as sex workers. I was disgusted to read these numbers and am very interested to find out what these countries are trying to do to stop the use of children in the sex worker business, but unfortunately it seems that if the clients are willing to pay the money, that people in the country are willing to sell their children for some money. Without knowing much about the history of children in the prostitution world, I hope that we have advanced some and that in the near future, the numbers will come down from being in the 100,000’s to the 1,000’s and down to 0. Many of these countries seem to have use poverty and tourism as an excuse for why they have such high rates of prostitution in their countries. There are very little differences between the four countries, besides the obvious difference of prostitution being legal in France and India and illegal in Morocco and Thailand, but even with some countries having it illegal, it is still very widespread throughout all of the above mentioned countries, so it does not seem as though making it illegal really does anything to help lower the numbers of sex