Prostitution

“The world’s oldest profession!” What profession might that be? Prostitution, of course. Whores, as it seems, have established themselves in literature and culture since the beginning of written word. The Book of Revelations, to John Wilmot, now to Nathaniel Hawthorne all include some mention of promiscuous women and their debaucherous deeds. Although in Hawthorne's case prostitution in particular is not mentioned, being a whore is. Hawthorne utilizes sly allusions and implications from his…

Demand for the commercial sexual services sustains and grows the sex trafficking industry; it ensures the high profitability of the industry that encompasses both prostitution and sex trafficking. Men who buy sex are the primary customers of the industry, they influence the desired type of females and locations for seeking services. Unfortunately, male demand has increased the demand for the number of clean girls or…

Journey to Work: Transnational Prostitution in Colonial British West Africa is an ambitious undertaking achieved by Saheed Aderinto. In this article, his main argument is that local social processes contributed to change the perceptions on the prostitution in Nigeria, and that prostitution network in Nigeria-Gold Coast flourished partly because men benefited of the remittance of women. But he also announces that his article adresses multiple other questions: « How did the attitudes of…

exploitation they learned how rise to the situation and unionized sex work. The human reality of international sex trade is that it is inhuman treatment of women and girls. There is a distinction that has to be made between sex trafficking and prostitution. Sex trade or trafficking is slavery. This is the inhuman treatment of people that has occurred through trickery, coercion, or kidnapping. Interesting…

Prostitution Should Be Legalized. Today, prostitution has mostly negative stigmas added to it, which could be believed to come from many of the Blaxploitation movies that gave an idea of pimp and ho culture. These movies showed situation where women would be taken advantage of and tricked into become prostitutes, and they would be disrespected and beaten. But even though some of these tragic scenarios have become reality. This isn’t the only environment that prostitution is found and…

Women of the United States are under siege due to the underground sex trade known as human trafficking. With increasing supply and demand for women and young children, these victims are being kidnapped and forced into modern day slavery. These slave traders are making billions of dollars off the bodies of these victims. The complications of discontinuing underground sex trade rings are due to massive economic funding it provides to sex traders and abductors. The constant development of new rings…

would be the effect of human trafficking? Human trafficking results to prostitution, forced labor, and street crime. All of these are being controlled by a human trafficker. Human trafficking results to prostitution. Prostitution is an illegitimate activity where a person is doing sexual relations to earn money. According to Melissa Farley (2010), a man removes a woman's humanity in prostitution. Buying a woman in prostitution gives man the control to turn women into a…

organizations, some argue that groups should spend their resources on lobbying to make prostitution and red light districts legal in order to bring the issue into the light and reduce the incentives of practicing trafficking. Since prostitution would be legal, the act would be heavily monitored with strict guidelines and laws pertaining to what those involved in the business could do. The profits received from the prostitution would most likely be heavily taxed, which would reduce the amount of…

Prostitute. A loaded word, a taboo social construct—but what exactly is a prostitute? According to twenty-first century Merriam Webster—Urban Dictionary—a prostitute is “a woman who sells her body to a variety of creeps, low-lifes, and degenerates.” Another, perhaps more verbose and subjective definition is “someone who sells their own personal morals and/or values for the idea of money, not necessarily for sex.” Two things are sold in these two very different definitions: sex and morals. Which…

The Worlds Oldest Profession Prostitution can be a broad term; Webster Dictionary defines the term prostitution as, “the act or practice of engaging in promiscuous sexual relations especially for money”. Prostitution is known as the worlds oldest profession, according to ProCon.org it dates back as early as 2400 B.C. where the Sumerian word for prostitution appears in the earliest lists of professions. In 18th century B.C. a civilization apparently found the need to protect women’s rights…