INTRODUCTION
Legally, Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. The services may consist of any sexual acts, including those which do not involve copulation. While payment may be any nonsexual consideration, most commonly it is the form of "money". Prostitution is said to be one of the “oldest profession in the world”. Most people do the jobs they do only for the money, not because they actually enjoy "the work" enough to continue doing it even without a monetary reward. It is the giving or receiving of the body for sexual activity for hire but excludes sexual activity between spouses. It is the performance for hire where there is an exchange of value, any of the following acts: Sexual intercourse; sodomy, or; manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another. ( Sanchez and Agpaoa)
Most of the prostitutes come from the rank of the girls working in the hospitality industry. Women in the industry are considered as an economic commodity and sexual merchanadise, which bring in profit. (Rosales)
At present, women no longer dominate prostitution. There are also males who are engage in prostitution. As publisher in Panorama, call boys call on right behind the backs and fronts of law enforcement officers. Police are helpless against male prostitutes because of the absence of the law that prohibits bold shows. It was observed that the most of the call boys clientele are the gays and rich mathrons. Like call girls, these people are offering their sexual devices for money. ( Reyes )
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The first account of prostitution in the Bible is found in Genesis, where Judah – one of Jacob’s twelve sons, descended from Abraham – paid the bride price, in accordance with Israelite custom, for Tamar and gave her to his eldest son. Long story short, she eventually went to the second