Prostitution: The Rise Of Cities

United States. In the 1800's prostitution made its way to the United States but, it was not common (Seals 2015). Prostitution was legal in the U.S up until the nineteenth century but it was heavily regulated (Elrod 2015). In 1870, St. Louis passed the "Social Evil Ordinance", which is the first law to be passed focused solely on prostitution (Carrasquillo 2014). The Social Evil Ordinance Act required a team of physicians to provide a health care option to prostitutes that treated women for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) (Elrod 2015). The United States noticed an increase in prostitutes in the 1900's and they were being taking advantage of and sold into sec slavery. A further law was put in to action in 1910 when the Federal Government

Prostitution, also referred to as “the oldest profession,” has always been a controversial and challenging social issue. It is practiced in many different forms including: call girls, convention prostitutes, apartment prostitutes, hotel prostitutes, house prostitutes, bar girls, streetwalkers, and parking lot lizards (). Civilizations such as the Samarians, and countries including Morocco and parts of India engaged in a form of prostitution known as temple prostitution. Temple prostitution is based on the belief that “generative activity of human beings possessed a mysterious and sacred influence in promoting the fertility of nature” (Clarkson). In other civilizations, such as the Roman and Byzantine Empires, prostitution was looked upon as less of a religious ceremony, and more of a sin practiced by “women of evil life” (ProCon.org). Today those differentiating view are still present in modern society, but there are also new ideologies surrounding the everlasting presence of prostitution. This Essay will use the Symbolic Interactionism Theory to identify those new ideologies, and evaluate the meaning of prostitution within three relationship: the husband and wife, the Call girl and client, and the Pimp and the sex trafficking victim.

Second, the development of new public transit systems, was important in shaping the design of our cities and the growth of our cities by enabling people to move further away from the inner city. Early on, large cities had very little and inadequate transportation. Their main source of transportation were horse drawn wagons and walking. As a result, most people lived or took housing near downtown, which was where most of the working establishments were located. This made the big cities very congested. However with the breakthrough of the “el”, electric streetcars, and subways, around 1867, cities began to open up more. Those who were fortunate enough to move out of the slums and into better surrounding neighborhoods, did so. The more affluent of the white-collar classes moved into the suburban areas. In contrast, many of the very wealthy continued to live in city mansions. The new transit systems in most cities allowed people to escape the chaos of urban life and provided potential for growth of our cities.

Claire E. Sterk, the author of the article of “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of Aids”

Abel, Gillian, et al. Taking the crime out of sex work: New Zealand sex workers fight for decriminalisation. Policy Press, 2010. Part two: Implementation and impact of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003): the first five years: Review of the PRA

Public humiliation has been around for years. It was always a controversial and terrible thing to do to a person. Being outlawed in the states during the 19th century there is a reason why this was banned. Public humiliation destroys a person emotionally.

The city of Baltimore noticed an increase in prostitution and prostitution related arrest. Like most crime stricken cities, research was completed to help official understand the cause of high prostitution rates. In 2007 the state attorney general formed a group to discuss composed of stakeholders the creation of a 90 day diversion program. In Maryland the sale of sex in exchange for money is considered a misdemeanor with a fine up to $500.00. State official recognized that those who sale themselves from all backgrounds and may have endured unspeakable past, home lives, and see prostitution as a survival skill. In an effort to reduce prostitution rates and display empathy the diversion program would implement weekly meeting with a social worker

Lewchuk, commences by presenting the challenging of the constitutionality of Canada’s adult prostitution offences the Downtown East Side Sex Workers United Against Violence Society (SWUAV), and Sheryl Kiselbach have been proponing. She continues by supporting that decriminalizing prostitution will indeed improve the lives of sex workers lives. This, in turn, will not necessarily will improve the equality of all women. We see the author comment that the decriminalization will make it difficult for business women to be included in networking settings than it already is. She notes “the social conditions leading women to become involve in sex work include ‘poverty, homelessness, violence, addictions, and colonization’” Pivot Legal Society aim solve

Prostitution was not a crime at that time nor was it a controlled factor. The orginal sex trade began in New Amsterdam due to San Francisco’s Gold Rush foundings. Once arriving to the colony, women figured out that the sex trade offered them more independence than having an arranged married. However, the issue had began when men came down with STD’s. Pregnancies and deaths from syphilis grew beyond measures, and the law had come up with an scenario to prevent any further damage which was the result of prostitution being illegal. However, prostitution is not illegal in every

Prostitution is illegal in the United States and the laws keeping it illegal are causing more problems than they are solving. Because there are no regulations or laws protecting sex workers in the United States, and everything is run underground, there is nothing stopping the mistreatment and abuse of sex workers in the United States. The only way to protect sex workers is to legalize prostitution. In the following paper, I will attempt to prove that prostitution is a victimless crime and the laws against prostitution are hurting prostitutes more than they are helping them. If we want prostitutes to remain safe while earning a living, the only way to achieve this is to legalize prostitution.

Prostitution is one of the world 's oldest professions.Even though that it may increase sex trafficking, prostitution should be legalised in the United States because it would decrease violence and It would boost the economy. Men and women around the world are free to chose prostitution as their own profession, yet not in the US. Only one state has legalized prostitution and some want it made illegal there this would be a mistake as it would exacerbate the problems caused by it not being legal.

Prostitution has underlyingly lingered in the history of the United States from the beginning of English settlements. In the industrial times, five percent of the population of women working were prostitutes. During the migration to the West, prostitutes were the majority- if not the only women in boom towns. Not until 1875, were there any laws officially banning prostitution. The Page law was created when Chinese immigrant women become prostitutes or second wives to European men. The law banned immigrant women from immoral purposes. Moving further in time, in 1949, a United Nations convention met in the purpose for the decriminalization of prostitution. Forty-eight countries decided to endorse it, the United States voted against it.

During the Progressive Era in the United States, commercial sex work became recognized as a form of sexual slavery. In the early 1900’s, many of the pimps were portrayed as foreign or African American men in cities such as Chicago, who tricked, drugged or forced young girls into prostitution (Broomfield, 2016). Present day, sex trafficking has evolved but many similarities remain. Pimps still recruit children directly using a great deal of manipulation. Focusing on young girls’ vulnerability and need for love and attention by offering compliments, gifts and promises of romance. After the victim has been seduced into the world of DMST, the false promises turn into an abusive relationship where the pimp uses the victim for their economic gain

Improvements in transportation as a result of the Industrial Revolution made life in the cities an improvement over life in the country. In order to further development, more railroads were

The technological advances impacting the nation were used to reduce the problems of city life. With the Bessemer Process, steel frameworks were used to build tall buildings. These new skyscrapers allowed the cities to build up and maximize the limited land. Streetcars were now used for public transportation, which allowed people to live in one part of the city and work in another. These transit links were then expanded to connect different cities and the surrounding suburbs into a collected larger area. Most cities built elevated train lines to free up street space and avoid traffic jams. Steel was used to create bridges across large rivers, connecting previously difficult to reach parts of the city. While the cities were growing more efficient, city planners looked at making them more attractive and livable. These planners created vast parks and recreational areas such as Central Park in New York City. Major cities such as Boston and Chicago would create parks to help beautify their cities and create areas of peace and calm in often hectic