Essays on Prostitution

The chosen ethnographic study originates from Thailand and it analyses on the understanding of child prostitution from different views and perspectives. The findings of the paper show key issues associated with the changes of child-rearing practices over a generation. The issues comprise of duties and...

Prostitution, or sex work, can be defined as the practice or occupation of engaging in consensual sexual activity with someone in exchange of payment, in the form of money, favors, goods, or any other benefit agreed upon by the consenting parties before the activity. It...

Selling sexual service is morally worse than selling massages as the prostitute damages bodily integrity by treating her body as a commodity damages sexual autonomy by relinquishing her body sovereignty, and reinforces discriminatory beliefs of female sexuality. Selling massages, on the other hand, does not...

The establishment of the New Town at the culmination of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century subsequently resulted in the movement of Edinburgh’s wealthy elite from the overcrowded tenements of the Old Town to the wide streets and charming town houses of the...

Currently in the U. S. prostitution is illegal and the debate about the morality and safety of these workers are still active today. There are currently 8 counties with 21 a total of legal brothels. These brothels have their work regularly checked for sexually transmitted...

Since the economic crises of the 90s – the “Special Period in Time of Peace” – Cuba has become one of the prime destinations for sex tourism alongside Thailand, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. Prostitution in Cuba has shifted several times due to factors...

Prostitution is the root cause behind sex trafficking which has been one of the most troubling global issues for quite a long time. So prostitution needs to be criminalized rather than legalized if we are to reduce the problem of sex trafficking to a considerate...