Clare Sterk reports about women who work as prostitute. Most of these women worked in streets, crack houses, and other pubic places. Sterk came up with six themes in the ethnography of prostitution: 1) A woman’s explanation for why she joined the field 2) The four types of prostitutes are streetwalkers, hooked prostitutes, addicts, crack prostitutes 3) The role of the pimp in their life 4) The impact of the AIDS epidemic 5) The violence and abuse that the women had to undergo 6) The depart from prostitution. Most women went into prostitution because they needed to support their own drug use or their male partners. Prostitutes were also categorized depending on whether they look drugs and what they got paid. The reports of Sterk revealed information about their pimps and customers. Only a few of the prostitutes completed high school. Most of the women were not educated. In her opinion, visiting the crack houses was the most difficult. She said that the “women were scared of the AID epidemic” (Sterk). From the prostitutes, Sterk understands how the prostitutes weren’t able to ask their clients to wear condoms. The risks of having their clients upset were to great. Prostitutes also had to endure many hardships from police and violence from their pimps. They were treated as slaves and abused in this way. For most women, it is impossible to leave the industry of prostitution because they need to get a good income from somewhere. However, some women get tired of it and quit. By staying with the prostitutes, she offered them groceries and many rides all over town. In this way, she won the trust of the prostitutes. After living with the prostitutes, Sterk became very close to the prostitutes, which causes her to have hardships when she…
Among all the controversial topics, prostitution is one of the most scandalous. Being one of the world’s oldest professions; prostitution uses the sin of adultery to lure clients into spending money on sexual pleasure. Although many prostitutes are controlled by pimps and social pressures, the act of prostitution is a lucrative way to make quick and relatively easy money. If one were to take in the positives and negatives of prostitution, it’s clear to see that legalization, though frowned upon, would have a progressive outcome.…
This essay focuses mainly on street prostitution in Canada, and on women, who represent the majority (75%) of prostitute workers. It mainly attempts to describe prostitution, its social, health and safety consequences. Is prostitution a problem itself, or is it part of a bigger problem?…
In her expository essay, “Enough Already, It’s Time We Decriminalize Prostitution,” Patty Kelly debates the controversial issue of the legalization of prostitution. Discussing her research of the involvement of American male adults in prostitution, Kelly successfully quotes the large number of males who are involved in paid sex services. She also uncovers the reasons sex workers are in this specific field which are: after leaving a distressful marriage, a disturbing pre-marital relationship, financial catastrophe, etc. It gives women the choice to work make their own hours and set their own rates and gives them the flexibility to decide the acts they will perform, which can be different for each individual. She sheds light on the behaviors of male customers as well, such as the willingness to pay more for unprotected sex and how they can be violent towards sex workers. Moreover, she pinpoints the law of different lands and states for prostitution to uncover the realistic approach to provide legal rights to sex trade workers. However, she discourages most of the laws due to their inability to provide protection to women, but she highly appreciates New Zealand’s 2003 Prostitution Reform Act which is based on core human values to live in a safe environment as well, it gives protection to sex workers. The law not only decriminalized prostitution, but it put firm rules in place to insure safe sexual activities and bind all the people and organizations involved in such business to be equally responsible for minimizing the risks of STD transmission. In the end, Kelly’s essay urges that more protection for prostitutes and their customers be put in place so that sex workers and the men who use their services can be safe, and work in a respectful…
Anti-prostitution law will imperil prostitutes and in most scenarios makes thing very difficult for them. In countries like Canada and Nevada, prostitution is not considered a crime. Nevertheless, communication and some other activities related to prostitution like human trafficking has been prohibited. Prostitutes who are Street based are the most visible and receive the most attention. This represents only a small section of the sex industry, which also incorporates brothels and escort services. Capturing to arrest and punish prostitutes mirrors our overall population's hesitation concerning sexual activities and male desire and sexual freedom. (Boels, 2015).…
There are multitudinous extensive financial and public substitutions that revolutionized the Americans population in the 20th century, including alteration in science and technology, a majority of transmissions, commercial efficiency and plenty of amusements, the responsibility of government, well-being and subsistence qualities, gender positions and the idea of self-determination. Taking assistance from the municipal, college-educated mid level, the Progressive improvements strived to remove extortion in the government, in script health danger, control business applications and develop their working state. They also opposed to give the community a more straight-forward authority to the government through immediate principals to suggest contenders…
The result of Sterk’s research was the six themes to Ethnography of Prostitution. The first was women’s own explanations of why they became prostitutes. Which includes the stories of the trauma, lack of love, being pimped out, drugs, and what made them choose this life. Second, the typology distinguishes of prostitution, either a streetwalker, prostitute that starting to use drugs, the prostitute who‘s addicted to drugs and prostitutes that use sex to get crack. Third, the role of the pimps, who usually are their boyfriends that treat the women like property to gain money. Fourth, the anthropological study of prostitution was the impact of the AIDS epidemic on these prostitutes’ lives. Fifth, violence and abuse that came from being a prostitute,…
The issue and main focus in Pankhurst’s journal was the start and evolution of prostitution. Prostitution regards to having sexual activity in exchange for money or payments. Sometimes other benefits can be made as well and this activity was also known as “commercial sex”. The person who is apart of this activity as a sex worker is known as the “prostitute”. Prostitution is one of the branches in the sex industry.…
The United States ' Effort to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Retrieved August 12, 2006 from http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0603/ijge/gj02.htm…
Prostitution is considered to be the oldest profession in the world. According to Francoeur (2002), a number of Buddhist Jataka tales, whose oral sources go back to 500 B.C.E., concern sex workers. A 13th-century text on social conditions speaks of “vesya” (prostitutes). Women with extraordinarily beautiful could become socialized as prostitutes to serve the king. They would be trained in the “sixty-four womanly arts” and socialized to be cultured and provide sexual satisfaction to men of high rank. These women were treated as the ex-queens of the king and they were treated in a good manner provided with equal rights as all the other women sometimes more than the ordinary women. In villages sex workers had been involved on prostitution were only for fulfilling their basic needs.…
Probably no one in the English-speaking world is unaware that our Governor has spoken out on subjects where lesser mortals, especially politicians, have held their tongue. His opinions on the assassination of JFK appear to be well-founded (November '99), however, and his views about the religious right seem equally appropriate (Holiday '99). Perhaps his proposals for the legalization of pot and prostitution also deserve some second thoughts. The strongest argument against prostitution, no doubt, is its alleged immorality.…
Prostitution much like any other moral debate is filled with numerous aspects in which everyone has their particular view on. People attack prostitution from all sides, and then others support it claiming that it has benefits or that what someone does with their life is of “no concern to me”. So in the wake of this discussion I decided to compare and contrast how a utilitarian and a Kantian might approach or type of moral conclusion they may have of prostitution.…
In the past, sex was used mostly for reproduction. There has been an emerging trend where sex is used for none reproductive purposes. The use of sex for none reproductive purposes associated with monetary gains has come to be commonly known as commercial sex. Other people refer to it as prostitution. The aim of this proposal is to explore the various issues of commercial sex including history, society’s view on commercial sex, advantages, and disadvantages of commercial sex. Commercial sex is very wide field and cannot be sufficiently covered in one academic proposal. This proposal has limited itself to the aspect of female commercial sex workers (FCSWs), while briefly mentioning men who have sex with men (MSM). The proposal has been developed with secondary material mostly from journal articles and books.…
Women in prostitution are denied every imaginable civil right in every imaginable and unimaginable way, (2) such that it makes sense to understand prostitution as consisting in the denial of women's humanity, no matter how humanity is defined. It is denied both through the social definition and condition of prostitutes and through the meaning of some civil rights.…
In sociology, conflict theory states that the society or organization functions so that each individual participant and its groups struggle to maximize their benefits, which inevitably contributes to social change such as changes in politics and revolutions. Prostitution is a way for an individual to maximize their monetary intake (benefit) by selling the thing that have readily, their bodies.…