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Prostitution is certainly a curse on humanity. It can seem glamorous and

sexy when it is depicted with flashy images of attractive bodies. And

prostitutes contribute to make it seem sexier; that’s both their job and

curse…

… But, the other side of the picture is grimmer than an

amateur can ever imagine of!

Prostitution: A Few

Facts

The CIA in one of its estimates states, that young women and girls

from around the world are being smuggled into the United States of

America at the rate of 50,000 a year. Women and girls are lured to

rich countries with promises of jobs and thus a better life, where they

are forced into prostitution. Pimps worldwide, target girls that are

vulnerable, naïve, emotionally thirsty, homeless and rebellious (and

most of them are so by nature).

This alarming for the society, where females constitute half the

population!

Reasons to refrain from legalizing prostitution

Prostitution is inherently

very harmful and in all

manners dehumanizing

to women and children.

It is both physical as

well as mental violence

against women and

children.

Dehumanizing to women and children

Prostitution: A Modern Slave Trade

Prostitution fuels the growth of human-trafficking and

tantamount modern slave trade.

Prostitution increases the demand for prostitution. It’s a kind of

vicious circle where prostitution strengthens prostitution. It

strengthens the motivation of men to pay women for sex in a

much wider and more permissible and socially acceptable

settings.

Exploitation of the prostitutes by their pimps

Once coerced or purchased, prostitutes are kept in bondage by the pimp

by verbal as well as physical abuse. Pimps abuse prostitutes in many

ways:

Pimps first of all isolate all the prostitutes to make them totally

dependent upon them. They depend on them completely for their survival.

Pimps use force to keep prostitutes in bondage.

It is reported that 85% of prostitutes are raped by their pimps.

It increases child prostitution

The figures related to child

prostitution are alarming. Today, the

average age of entry into prostitution

is found to be between 13-14 years.

Most of these young girls are coerced

into prostitution against their will.

And to augment the situation, the

age of entry into prostitution is

decreasing very rapidly.

Prostitution is certainly a curse on humanity. And, if we view

prostitution as violence against women and children, then it makes

no sense to legalize or decriminalize it. Decriminalizing or legalizing

prostitution would legitimate practices that are human rights

violations, and in any other context would be illegal.

Studies show that decriminalizing or legalizing prostitution increase

rather than decrease rates of human sex trafficking.

References

John R. Miller, A Modern Slave Trade http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/SlaveTrade2.pdf

National Catholic Reporter Online http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/SlaveTrade1.pdf

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