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Throughout the progress of the course, we have learned much about Women and their roles in the sex work industry. The glimpses we have gained into the lives of these women have portrayed various lifestyles, from the glamorous to the un-savory to the just plain harsh; all of these women have different stories driving their participation in the sex work industry. As we learned in the 20/20 documentary “Working Girls in America”, our society perpetuates the idea that prostitutes are happy, young pretty girls, or that they follow Julia Roberts’s path in pretty woman. We have, however, read the reality of these women’s lives. In “Prostitution and Sex Trafficking”, we read about all of the difficult circumstances that push people into prostitution. According to Kari Lydersen’s article in chapter 3 of the book, 57% of prostitutes in the state of Illinois had been abused sexually as children. Not only that, but 70% believed that the abuse is what influenced them to become prostitutes (Gerdes, 2006 pg. 115-116).These women did not receive necessary help and eventually turned to prostitution...
The book Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children by Linda Smith addresses the topic of the underground world of child sex trafficking. Unfortunately, it is a topic that has been purposefully neglected in our society for many years. The author presents every chapter with a real story of a sexually exploited child. The stories are intense, powerful but especially touching which makes the reader feel frustrated, desperate, and vexed. After every chapter, Smith tries to include commentaries that presents a deeper understating about human trafficking. It seems that the purpose of her commentaries is to make the reader think deeper about the problem of sex trafficking and accumulate desires to act towards this issue as they continue
With prostitution still arising and thriving in present day America the Argument and war waged on it by media has changed from an advocated perspective, to being seen as present day slavery among women. Especially with modern practices of forced trafficking and drugged prostitution. the views have changed from one of a women's private and personal freedom of choice, to one of "the ones who weren't lucky enough to get away from being drugged, kidnapped and forced into slaved prostitution."
The documentary, Very Young Girls, was heart-wrenching, informative, and very hard to relate to these young girls. These girls are daughters, sisters, friends, family, and some are already mothers. However, these young women are treated and seen as criminals, not as victims. Prostitution and human-trafficking happens everywhere and every day, including in the United States. People have this perspective that human trafficking only happens in foreign countries. There’s a negative stigma on prostitution because we, as a society, only pay attention to the sexual acts and services that these women provide. Young women’s dignity, adolescences, and respect is taken away from them. Yet, this was not their choice, but they do not have positive influences
The value of a woman as a mother, wife, sister, daughter or aunt has been replaced for sexual please. Greed and perversion disguised as men chose to debase America’s women and children for their own selfish gain. Child sexual exploitation is the most hidden form of child abuse in the U.S. and North America today. It is the nation’s least recognized epidemic. The overwhelming majority of children forced to sell their bodies on the street are girls. Young boys face hardship and abuse as well, but they often fend for themselves to survive. The girls, on the other hand, inevitably fall victim to pimps and organized trafficking networks. (Sher, pg. V)
Prostitution, as stated by Flemming, is known as a form of sexual activity, a kind of sexual style or category, and a form of economic activity, a way of making a living through the provisions of certain services, by behaving in accordance with, or falling into such a category (39). This definition, though, is controversial. While conducting research for this project, we found that most topics regarding prostitution and its affiliates were controversial. Each author gave a differing interpretation for the same data. Due to this, our project centered on the female prostitutes, even though there is evidence of male prostitutes.
According to Satz, there are three types of prostitutes: a streetwalker, a high-end escort, and male prostitutes. The focus of this paper will be on the first two types. A streetwalker can be viewed as a girl who takes up prostitution because she has no other options. She desperately needs the money, yet has no education or skills, so all she can do is sell her body. As she is young and vulnerable, she relies on a pimp for protection. However, the pimp has total control over and decides when and with who she has sex with. She has no autonomy or independence over her body. On the other hand, escorts tend to be high end and cater to wealthy men. They make pretty decent money and have a lot of independence. They have the power to decide when they want to work and who they will accept as their clients. The amount of autonomy is what separates the two,
When it comes to the topic of legalizing prostitution, most of us will readily, agree that prostitution is a human right. Where this agreement usually ends, however, in on the question of prostitution being legalized. Whereas some are convinced that it should be legalized, others maintain that it should remain illegal. I agree that prostitution should be legalized. A point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe that the government should not interfere with their life choices. Considering that it goes against the 1st Amendment, why shall someone not do as they please. A portion of the United States believe that legalizing prostitution would bring down the percentage of people being raped. It can save kids’ lives that are being forced to be
Murphy, L. S. (2010). Understanding the Social and Economic Contexts Surrounding Women Engaged In Street-Level Prostitution. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 31(12), 775-784.
In December of 2011, an article published in the New York Times swept the nation. The article featured Barbara Terry, a fifty-two year old Bronx woman, mother of four and self-proclaimed devout Christian. Barbara attended college for two years, training to become a medical lab technician before she and her husband divorced at the age of 21. Stuck alone without a complete college education and four kids, Barbara turned to working the streets of Hunts Point, a neighborhood in the Bronx. Barbara has been in the profession for 31 years and throughout all those years, she says that she has been arrested over one hundred times. Despite all these arrests, she continues to return to the streets as her primary source of income. “There’s so much money out here, you wouldn’t believe it” (Kilgannon, 2011). Barbara has earned enough income via prostitution to put two children through college and buy a house in upstate New York. Barbara’s experience with prostitution is indicative of the growing interest in the practice and legality of prostitution in the United States.
She tries to investigate the reasons why these women are in the profession, their interactions with their ‘pimps’ and customers, their attitudes towards safe sex in light of the AIDS endemic, and above all, prostitution’s link to drug use. Her basic thesis revolves around these women’s thoughts and feelings regarding prostitution and the effect it has on their lives. Through her research, Sterk uncovers a demographic that ranges from 18-59 years in age, is largely African-American, and that most have completed high school. As these women reveal more about themselves, it becomes apparent that there is a spectrum of opinion regarding controversial topics such as drug use and safe sex. Many women admitted to not having used a condom with a partner who they were aware had HIV/AIDS.
Elizabeth Anderson makes a claim that “The attempt to sell gift value on the market makes a mockery of those values.”(Anderson 188) Anderson uses this claim to object commoditized sex (prostitution). There are two premises that Anderson uses to support her claim. The first premise being the gift value of sex cannot be realized in commercial terms and the second premise being that the gift value of sex is more significant that the use value of sex itself.
Barry, Kathleen. The Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Print.
Little do most know, but on “[a]verage [prostitution] arrest[s], court and incarceration costs amount to nearly $2,000 per arrest. Cities spend an average of 7.5 million dollars on prostitution control every year, ranging from 1 million dollars to 23 million dollars.” Prostitution is the oldest known profession. Currently in 49 countries and counting prostitution is legal. Here in America there is a stigma following the label prostitute. We would rather resort to underground markets of sex labor. Endangering health, rights, and economics. Legalizing prostitution can reduce health hazards by giving heath care, also by giving rights to those that choose prostitution as their profession. In the long term this
In many cases society has tried to tell you that prostitution is bad, weather it is through movies, books, religious text and many other influential aspects of society, due to the nature of the people who they portray in the act. I believe if people were properly educated into the science of sex, having sex for money would not be considered such a bad thing. When I attended prep school, I met many other kids from Europe, and let’s sat they were a little more comfortable with their sexuality, and in a few of their countries prostitution was even legal.
Legalized Prostitution: A Compromise Between Amnesty International and Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution