LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION

LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION

I . Introduction

Nowadays , people are experiencing difficulties in life due to economic instability that caused by unemployment . This case motivates other individuals to go on prostitution in to meet up their daily needs and have a job . But is this the right answer for starvation and unemployment ? Do these reasons behind prostitution are enough to legalized it ? Certainly not ! It is an immoral act an act that demoralized one 's dignity . Prostitution is the performance of sexual acts with another person in return for the payment a fee . Prostitutes

br may be female or male . Acts of prostitution generally are performed by women for men , but are sometimes done by men for men . Persons who make a living or supplement their income from prostitution usually are willing to engage in sexual activity with most persons who can pay them although prostitutes sometimes have been known to impose hygiene , age health , or racial and ethnic criteria on their acceptance of customer HYPERLINK "http /www .questia .com /SM .qst ?act adv contributors Nanette 20J 20Davis dcontributors Nanette J Davis " Davis , 1993

Prostitution involves payment for a specific act . For example , a call girl responds to a telephone solicitation to engage in a sexual act with a client in his hotel room , and is paid for doing so . But some related kinds of behavior are not as readily classifiable as prostitution . A person performing sexual acts in exchange for gifts or in the hope of future favors generally is not classified by definition as a prostitute Similarly , a woman who engages in sexual intercourse in front of a photographer for a mass circulation magazine is apt to regard herself as a model , not as a prostitute

This study scrutinizes the grounds whether prostitution should be legalized or not and know about the attraction and hazards of prostitution

II . Background

A . The world of prostitutes

Female prostitution . Forms of traditional prostitution differ greatly At the bottom of the hierarchy of prostitutes are streetwalkers , who solicit business from persons passing by . B-girls , or bar girls , who entertain male customers in a bar or nightclub and encourage them to spend money , are generally also available for sexual relations for a price . Call girls usually operate out their own homes , often with a roster of regular customers . A newer form of prostitution involves massage parlors ' some of which resemble the brothels , or houses of ill-repute , that were common throughout the United States (Self , 2003

Many prostitutes , especially streetwalkers , are involved with pimps who take much of what they earn . In return , the pimp is a permanent figure the prostitute can love . The pimp often supplies customers and provides bail if the prostitute arrested . A pimp sometimes has a stable ' of several women

Male prostitution . Homosexual prostitution by men appears to have increased significantly in the United States . It is possible , however that the lessening of taboos surrounding homosexuality and its removal from the criminal rule in several states has merely made male prostitution more open...