The Consequences Of Child Prostitution

Prostitution is the provision of sexual services for negotiated payments between consenting adults. So defined, prostitution is a service industry like any other in which people exchange skills for money or other rewards. Johnson has defined prostitution as “the act of offering oneself for hire to engage in sexual relations” (Johnson 717). In addition, according to Ariza Ahmed, "Prostitution may be the world's oldest profession" (Ariza 1). Prostitution occurs in a variety of forms, two examples are

President Barack Obama in 2012 addressing human trafficking and child prostitution within the U.S. In America, there is a conception that human trafficking only happens in less-developed countries. However, the U.S. is the second most prominent destination country for human trafficking in the world (Hodge & Lietz, 2007). Cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Detroit are amongst the U.S. cities with high incidences of child prostitution (Hodge & Lietz, 2007). Some of these children are seen as

freezies on a hot, summer day. Did the memory of child prostitution run through your mind? No? How about having your rights and innocence completely stripped away from you? About ten million children are involved in prostitution worldwide (B.Willis, 2002), with India consisting of one million child prostitutes; forty percent the country’s total prostitution population (CNN, 2009). In most cases, children are kidnapped and forced into prostitution or take part in what is known as “survival sex”

A) Introduction This section reviews several literatures considering prostitution and prostitutes as social and legal issues. It firstly examines concisely the historical and traditional prostitution discourses in course of developing law on prostitution in the United Kingdom, their (these discourses) influences contributed to contemporary approaches socially and legally. Regarding the discriminating facts on prostitution and its legalization from media representations, the final part will investigate

Introduction Prostitution could start at any age, depending on the reason why it began. About 40% of prostitutes are former child prostitutes who were illegally forced into the profession through human trafficking or once were teenage runaways (sex-crime.laws.com). There is no need for an education and the amount of money received is something unbelievable. Prostitution is the act of engaging in a promiscuous sexual relations with someone for money. Prostitution is also known as the “Worlds oldest

trafficking, child soldiers, bonded labor, and forced labor. Sex trafficking is split further into adult sex trafficking and child sex trafficking. While child

Introduction: Prostitution is generally described as the granting of sexual acts in exchange for compensation. Prostitution has been an area of increasing concern for legal professionals in recent years, both as a result of the Internet and an increase in sex trafficking. (Hg.Org) Prostitution is legal in Hong Kong; However everything related to it is not. For example, running a brothel, advertising sex are illegal. Hong Kong's attitude to prostitution is that as long as it's done by no one knows

of children unwillingly partaking in prostitution. In 2002, research by Willis and Levy stated, "Child Prostitution involves offering the sexual services of a child or inducing a child to perform sexual acts for any form of compensation, financial or otherwise." (Willis & Levy 2002) Children who encounter such sexual activities under the age of eighteen are considered children, and is seen as illegal. Individuals who are older than eighteen are no longer a child in the government 's eyes. For the past

forty-nine, the whores in fifty-one; and when they got together they produced the native son.” This sheds some light as to how long prostitution has been a part of America. Prostitution dates back to the beginning of colonization in the United States, but wasn’t considered a legal act. At the time the laws just didn’t acknowledge what a prostitute or the act of prostitution itself was. In 1721, the French government shipped eighty women to the colony of New Orleans that housed seven hundred men to promote

context of childhood and youth by exploring child prostitution with a focus on the experiences of young girls ‘Devadasis’ (temple dancer) in rural Karnataka, India. While looking at the historical and cultural factors of Devadasi system of sex work in India and analyzing the causes and consequences of this practice, this paper will put a special focus on the perspective of young girls and how this can challenge common understanding of child prostitution when the practice is social, economically and