PROSTITUTION

Prostitution

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Prostitution” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Prostitution” and its relation with “Society”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Prostitution” and tries to gauge its effect on “Society”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Prostitution” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Prostitution” on “Society”.

A Literary Review on Prostitution

Prostitution is often called “the oldest profession,” but this characterization is rather inaccurate. While prostitution really has long annals, it has taken numerous types over the centuries. Moreover, the regulation has seldom identified prostitution as a profession; more routinely, prostitution has been treated as deviant or criminal behavior.

Prostitution is generally appreciated as the exchange of sexual services for cash between a feminine prostitute and a male customer. Although most prostitutes are women, male prostitution furthermore exists. Nearly all clients of both feminine and male prostitutes are men, but heterosexual twosomes rarely charter prostitutes, as, more seldom, manage women. Prostitutes find clients, and vice versa, through individual solicitation on the road or at bars, nightclubs, narrow piece clubs; at motor truck stops; through advertisements in phone publications, classified advertisements in publications and bulletins, and flyers and cards circulated on the street; and by the Internet. Where prostitution is lawful, it may furthermore be advocated on TV and billboards (Weitzer 2000).

Prostitution is illicit in most nations in the world. In the United States, prostitution is mainly an issue of state other than government regulation, producing in some variety in criminal statutes. While regulations one time characterized the prostitute as a woman who traded sexual services, today most American regulations are gender neutral.

Adult prostitution is often categorized as one of a couple of “victimless crimes.” Unlike most crimes, both parties willingly take part in prostitution, so there is no victim-complainant in the common sense. For this cause, some contend that regulations contrary to mature individual prostitution comprise a futile try to legislate morality. (Because young children need emotional, thoughtful, and sexual maturity, although, progeny prostitutes are really victims of prostitution, even if they appear to enlist in prostitution voluntarily.) (Aggleton 2006) Indeed, regulation enforcement's categorization of prostitution as a vice infringement reflects the chronicled outlook that prostitution is more sin than crime.

Prostitution and HIV/Aids

Fears about prostitutes dispersing infection are prevalent but often exaggerated. In Western nations, the swamping most of HIV-positive feminine prostitutes are present or previous intravenous pharmaceutical users. Most prostitutes perform protected sex and have contamination rates alike to low-risk women in the population. Moreover, for physiological causes it is much simpler for men to contaminate women than for women to contaminate men. Even in evolving localities where condoms may be costly or unavailable, feminine prostitutes have much higher HIV contamination rates than their clients do. (Chapkis 2004)

 

Legal Approaches to Prostitution

There are three likely lawful answers to prostitution: criminalization, decriminalization, and legalization. Each set about has two or more variations (French 2000).

 

Criminalization

Perhaps the most widespread lawful answer to prostitution is criminalization, the ...