Prostitution

        Prostitution is commonly known as the one of the oldest "professions" known to man. The background and history of prostitution is long with shifting attitudes towards the profession throughout all recorded history. Political and social attitudes towards sexuality, women, and infectious disease shaped societies responses to prostitution. Laws on prostitution are almost as old as the profession itself.  Even in young civilizations, like the United States, social and political attitudes towards prostitution have gone through dramatic changes. In the United States, prostitution has always been illegal but it has gone through periods of tolerance and intolerance over the last 230 some odd years of American independence.

        The White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910, applies to any case in which a woman is transported in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution or concubinage; pecuniary. This act is highly active throughout the CAMINETTI VS. UNITED STATES court case 

 CHILD PROSTITUTION IN CAMBODIA FLOURISHES

An appalling number of girls are being sold into prostitution in Cambodia. These girls are not adults, but children. Some are as young as an appalling five or six years old. One child, hoping to earn money for her family, received a job at a café. After being given the job, it did not take long for the girl to find out that she was going to be a prostitute. Not only that, the place she was working was not a café at all, it was a brothel, or a house of prostitution. Understandably, she did not want to be a prostitute, but if she had refused, she would have been beaten by her employer. Families who are poor and struggling to survive engage their children in prostitution because, sadly enough, it pays off. Surprisingly, tourists, American and otherwise, are to blame for the success of prostitution in Cambodia!

         I think that is a very sad thing that people are being forced into this form of employment, especially children. This profession should not be as successful as it has become, not only in Cambodia but world wide. Once these women have joined this path, whether it was forced upon them or a last resort for survival, it seems that there is no way out. For the safety of themselves and the people that they interact with, prostitution SHOULD NOT be legal! ):

 

http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2010/10/prostitution-ukraines-unstoppable.html

http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2007/09/child-prostitution-in-cambodia.html