The Women Of The Prostitution Business

In the past decade, it seems as if the issue of prostitution has become fairly normalized in society. With the advancements in today’s technology, a fantasy is only a click away. In modern times, easily accessible video game chatrooms, and ads online make it simple to buy into the dream of sex. Selling sex, prostitution, is believed to have been around since the beginning of time. Let’s first consider the definition of prostitution, the transaction of sexual services in exchange for money or goods. There are various forms of prostitution that range from women on the street to upper echelon call girls, and it all originated the same. In The History of Prostitution (Sanger, W.) it was said that “the most historical record of prostitution comes

Every year thousands of people of all genders, race, and age become victimized in sex trafficking. These people who become victims are usually vulnerable and are living in poverty structured areas. Many countries around the world are dealing with this serious issue, even in the United States. The United States federal law has defined sex trafficking as an act, “in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age” (Polaris Project). Sex trafficking is not only seen as a crime but is also seen as a business of supply and demand to many people. This business makes a profit of about 9.8 billion dollars a year. In recent events it has been shown that sex trafficking increases during big sporting events. As a result, some actions have been taken to combat the issue, but not enough. Therefore, due to the fact that sex trafficking is a worldwide issue and it is increasing over time; I will argue how there needs to be changes to the approach we have on the issue of sex trafficking.

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.

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

At the turn of the 20th century, increasing vigilance of women led to the focus of placing responsibility on both men and women for the corruption of sex workers. Both genders had a responsibility for the prevalence of prostitution as well as to finding a solution to a prevalent problem in metropolitan areas such as Chicago. However, rather than providing financial or social resources to help victims of prostitution form relationships and earn a respectable place in society, many progressive and feminists reformers as part of the Feminist Movement argued for the creation of vice commissions in order to gather evidence and research on the connections between prostitution and structured crime. This led to the persecution of prostitutes and the long term establishment of the criminal industry due to the infrastructure and legal foundations for the processing and cracking down on the “Social Evil”. However, there were individuals such as Jane Addams who worked tirelessly to improve the conditions of sex workers and those who recently left the profession, but she knew that there was a great divide between the public and the women who had been abused and used for one of the worst sins society has prevalent within it. She accepted the task and took it in strides for she knew that it would take empathetic cooperation on the sides of those in political/legal positions in collaboration with citizens and those attempting to better their lives as well as the city of Chicago. She did

For the purpose of this study, male prostitutes and sexual acts such pornography, stripping and erotic massage are excluded from the definition of prostitution. The terms ‘sex worker’ and ‘prostitute’ will be used interchangeably throughout the paper. The term ‘sex work’ was coined to circumvent the stigma that accompanies prostitution and to acknowledge that it generates income, like any other profession in our society.

Prostitution, also known as commercial sex or solicitation, is the business of preforming sexual activities in exchange for monetary compensation. Prostitution can be seen in many different outlets, from brothels and streetwalkers, to top of the line escort or call-girl services. Prostitution laws make it a crime to suggest, consent, or participate in a sexual act for the benefit of receiving payment (FindLaw, 2016). Prostitution is one of the first known female occupations and appears as early 2400 B.C.

To start off, although many people are aware that Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections are real most of them forget about the protection needed against any. The women and men involved in prostitution do not get to worry about that kind of protection. The health risks involved are brutal and dangerous. “Sex-work communities around the world are in dire need of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services” (Doyle 1). It is not unheard of that, the current prostitution rings do not care about these diseases, in fact “a meeting of sex workers held at the International AIDS Conference heard that the criminalization of the profession was fueling secretive transactions and unsafe sex practices, putting people at risk of HIV and

I too have to concur with Hughes and others that share similar views about prostitutes and go as far to say that the real criminals should be the pimps. The distinction between criminals and victims isn’t black and white. Many prostitutes and supporters of prostitutes dislike both labels. There’s also objection to the view that they are not in sex trafficking through their own choice but instead they are through coercion, (Ehrenfreund, 2014). Labeling the workers of sex trafficking isn’t a positive thing and could create stigma and much dissension in the community. According to (Ehrenfreund, 2014), dealing with prostitutes and government interference isn’t a big issue right now and the first signs of progress may be shown through Providence, Rhode Island, in the near

Secondly, many of these women is transported from their small rural towns into big cities for sex work, typically by vehicle, where they would be less noticeable. In this case, many of the women come from within Mexico, but there are other women who are brought from Latin America for the purposes of prostitution to the red-light district. The trafficker is in charge or transporting and delivering, and in some cases, the transporter is the pimp who will oversee the women during the duration of the time he has control over them. Many of these women are taken to hotels or apartments where they will work either in private sectors, such as clubs or will work on the streets as their pimps keep a watchful eye over them.

The current state of the law in South Australia under the Police Offences Act 1953 is that “accosting, soliciting or loitering for the purposes of prostitution in a public place”; s.25 and “receiving money paid in a brothel in respect of prostitution”; s.28(l)(b) are criminal offences resulting in jail. It continues to state “keeping or managing a brothel”; s.28(i)(a) [is] “an offence”. In simple

Prostitution is unlawful in the United States, with the exception of a few areas in Nevada. In any case, prostitution is in most part of the United States, regardless of the way that it has been authorized. Prostitution is a demonstration whereby, one offers his/her body for sex. In the United States, Prostitution is separated into three general classes; road, escort, and massage parlor prostitution. Whorehouse prostitution happens in massage parlor houses, which are houses where whores can offer sexual administrations. This sort of prostitution is unlawful in all parts of America, aside from in a few districts in Nevada for instance; Douglas County, Clark County, Carson City, Washoe County, and Lincoln County. Another type of prostitution is escort prostitution. This is constantly considered as stimulation, and back rub administrations. It should be vigorously controlled, yet lamentably, it is not on the grounds that, in numerous provinces where it is honed, the main distinction amongst escort and road prostitution is a telephone summon. The last classification of prostitution is road prostitution. This is the most unaccepted, and illicit kind of prostitution in the United States. Road prostitution includes meagerly spruced up ladies, and men meandering the lanes searching for customer to offer their bodies. It is the most grimaced sort of prostitution since it is done straightforwardly. The question is ought to prostitution be legitimized in the US? The answer is yes, this

Although I understand the perspective of the critics, I do not believe criminalization of purchasing sex would further put women at risk. The risk will continue to exist with or without the laws in place. In places where sex work has been completely decriminalized, there are many regulations in place. These regulations are necessary and are in place to protect the workers. Sex workers are not allowed to freely sell sex on the streets; rather the transactions must be made in specific places and under specific conditions. These conditions are not ideal for every “john” or sex worker therefore the underworld of purchasing sex will continue to exist. There will still be individuals seeking to have sexual encounters outside of regulations of age requirements, condom usage, location, and security.

Sexual favours in return for money, just the thought of this has people cringing, although laws have deemed to move forward with the idea of prostitution it seems although socially there has not been much progress. The idea of prostitution still scares, or one could even go as far to say it disgusts people. The lack of knowledge and awareness of the details of sex work create this ongoing hate towards sex work, which continues to stigmatize sex workers. Regardless of changing laws, regardless of changing policies, why is it that sex workers are still afraid to proudly announce that their job is in fact the job of a sex worker? Unfortunately, it seems as though the idea of sex work that seems to be such a terrible one is not what bothers sex workers the most, it is the social misconception of what sex work is like that leads these individuals to feel highly stigmatized (Van der Meulen and Redwood, 2013). The primary harm for of prostitution seems to be the stigma against prostitution, women involved in prostitution are considered socially invisible as full human beings (Farley, 2004). Why is it that our changing and progressing laws are still unable to remove this stigma from the lives of sex workers? This paper will argue that prostitution laws continue to produce stigma around sex work. It will argue this through revisiting the historical laws, examining present laws and ongoing laws at this time.

After the Escorts comes the Bar girls/boys who are hustlers, strippers and table dancers that work in night clubs, bars and strip joints primarily. Then comes the house girls that work in brothels which would run by a madam (female recruiter) or a pimp (male recruiter); they have very little to no freedom in selecting their client and cannot turn down a customer. After that come the bottom two classes – street-walkers and drug-addicts. The street-walkers are prostitute work at a specific location and in open street and dress very provocatively to entice their customers. The bottom tier, drug-addicts are man or woman who would have sex with others just to have drugs or money to buy drugs. These five ranks also determines how much freedom and options you have and the entry and exit in the sex industry; the higher the rank the hard to enter and easy to quit while it remains the opposite in the lower rank. The higher rank prostitutes also have more protection and security than the lower rank ones and there are more violent events (rape, death etc) in the lower rank than the higher rank that have an established business with higher and exclusive clientele. Despite it’s danger and the cultural taboo condemning it, in the documentary Prostitution: the oldest trade, where several prostitutes were interviewed on how they feel about