The Effect Of Education On Sex Prostitution In The United States

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.

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Throughout history, prostitution has been an issue of intense debates in the US and the larger global society. Many countries legally prohibit prostitution and associated activates. Except Nevada, the United States also illegalizes prostitution. However, the benefit of legalizing prostitution in the US would not only be for the workers but also for the economy as well. It is high time that prostitution be legalized for various reasons.

It is rather odd to think that prostitution, which is considered to be the world’s oldest profession, would be illegal and harmful in nature. The issue of legalizing prostitution has entered public conversation around the world, which is severely divided. Many, like myself, consider prostitution to be a victimless crime. Despite such opposition to legalizing prostitution, many argue that legalizing it would result in decreased morality issues, increase the economic activity in the United States, and help decrease the number of sexually transmitted diseases among both prostitutes and those who patronize them,

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.

Sex trafficking is a problem that sweeps across the nation. The number of children and teens on the street makes them more at risk of being taken into human sex trafficking. According to the Covenant House Institute, more than two million kids in America will face a period of homelessness. As many as 20,000 kids are forced into prostitution by the human trafficking networks every year in the United States

Despite the government’s efforts to end human trade by creating organizations like Salvation Army and acts trying to prevent it, they have yet to succeed. One of the main causes of sex trafficking is the inability of the government to establish beneficial ways to prevent such an awful crime happening in the United States. The government should be focused on this problem until it is solved. Innocent people and children are getting abused and he government has failed to put a stop to it. Creating acts and strengthening the consequences is clearly not enough, they need to do more. As Jonathan Todres claims in his article Taking Prevention Seriously the government has put prevention on the back burner. The United State is a country that other

In the state of California, many progressive matters such as same-sex marriage and marijuana are widely accepted and legal, and the oldest profession in the world should be, too. Prostitution is illegal in 49 out of 50 states, the exception being Nevada. Prostitution has been around for centuries, but has yet to be embraced by many cultures as ‘socially acceptable’. The underground operations and stereotypes of prostitutes have created the stigma that prostitution is a job for low-life, uneducated women who deserve less than human rights. From the law to feminists, people have been ostracizing prostitutes because of their occupation. Could the persistent moral issues and stigmas that prostitution connotes be detrimental to sex workers? Will

and drug crime. Currently, The FBI has identified San Diego as one of 13 U.S. cities designated

According to sharedhope.org, sexual trafficking is defined as when “someone uses force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or causes a minor to commit a commercial sex act [such as] prostitution, pornography and an exchanged sexual performance.”

Women who were forced into sex trafficking had to service or perform sexual acts with 300 men at $100.00 an incident to pay off the $30,000.00 debt they owed to their traffickers. Consequently, sex trafficking victims are kept in servitude, and forced to perform sexual acts or have sex with strange men. Once free of their traffickers getting the help they need to be able to function in everyday society is not easy or easily accessible.

The undergoing issue of sex trade and sex trafficking is going on and affecting underage girls selling their virginity's, sexual abuse and drug use is going on. As it is 2015 this is unacceptable and shouldn't’t be going on in third world countries nor first world countries like the USA and Canada where this is happening.

While researching sexual exploitation, I have learned that sexual exploitation occurs all throughout the United States frequently. The more I researched, the more occurrences of child sexual exploitation I found. I discovered that children are often tricked into being sexually exploited by predators. Predators trick children by showing affection, pretending to care about the victim, engaging in false relationships, or threatening the victim. Granted that when children are sexually exploited, they are deceived to produce pornography or engage in sex trafficking. Pimp-street prostitution, escort services, and brothels are all forms of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking transpires in the United States daily even when laws are created to prevent and end the act. Stopping sexual exploitation is a difficult problem to prevent because many crimes go unreported. The effects of sexual exploitation of children are psychologically and emotionally scarring. Likewise, survivors often need help to recover after being traumatically exploited. There are several organizations and laws that help victims of sexual exploitation.

The invasive nature of this issue is an important element of the personal freedom debate and the enforcement of these laws can be downright absurd. For instance, Portland police officials investigated a local woman, Samantha Hess, who made national headlines due to her unique profession. She’s a professional “snuggler.” Yes, for $60 an hour, people pay to just cuddle with her. And the demand for her business is so strong that she is considering adding a staff of cuddlers. In the end, the Portland Police allowed her to remain in business. However, a different woman tried to set up a duplicate business model in Madison, WI, “Snuggle House,” but the city blocked her from ever plying her trade. Shouldn’t we just allow these people to pay for

Prostitution was a large part of the early Parisian culture. So much so, that in Horne’s writing about the fourteenth century Paris had begun naming areas of the city and street based on the actions taking place there, like Pute-y-Muse, which loosely translates to “whore in hiding” (Horne 36). By renaming these areas the city is highlighting the actions taking place and drawing attention to this kind of work. In a sense, it is condoning this kind of commerce as well as promoting business for these women. It is empowering to have a dedicated area to conduct your work as well as powerful to control the culture centered on that work. However in contrasted, the city separation of these women also allowed society to attempt to justify the actions of men who pay for these types of services. “This sort of thing [prostitution] keeps the pure women safe, that is cant, the excuse”, Mercier writes. He is calling attention to an attitude amongst the Parisian’s that in order for the wives and mothers of the innocent to stay unharmed prostitution must exist. I argue that this is not the case. Instead, this outlook on prostitution is a way for the men who partake in business with these prostitutes attempting to justify their actions of adultery or misconduct. In his text, he