Savasia's Research paper_child prostitution

Savasia Mangual 3/27/07
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Prostitution


Prostitution is a world wide problem!! But to me it seems like people all around the world try to act like it is not around them. One very sad thing is that not only adult women and men are prostitutes. There are also child prostitutes. This was really sad and scary for me to hear. The children who are brought in to prostitution are as young as eight years old. Child prostitution is a worldwide problem. Most of the problems with child prostitution are coming from Thai land, Great Britain, Germany, France, United States, Japan and Asia.
Child Prostitution is a growing problem, in Asia alone, over one million young boys and girls engaged in some kind of prostitution. Indications say that almost in every part of the world, the number of children being harmed by this behavior is growing everyday. One of the things that some people who deal with prostitution have a fear of is AIDS. A bad thing that some people believe in is that kids or younger sex partners are free of disease. I think that that is really stupid, but I do realize that not all people are educated on the world. Prostitution in illegal in Thailand, nevertheless, like any other crime it still happens Thailand’s government is really trying to crack down on this problem.
Studies say that prostitution has been around for along time. Prostitution has been known to be one of the oldest professions. Prostitution’s been around since the Mesopotamian times. In Victorian era (1840-1900) they were known to look down on people who did not totally give their lives totally to religion. Nineteenth century feminist including Elizabeth Cady Stanton was inspired to start looking at prostitution not viewed in male terms but, see women as victims of male society. Other people in this time say prostitutes as horrible man-sucking vampires. But the feminist didn’t see them like that. But back in the day’s child prostitution was really not that big. But there was also male prostitution, but it was keep really quite because it was thought that two men having sexual encounter was worse then anything a women prostitute could do.
Many girls were not found in the streets back in those days. But today, you find men, woman, boys and girls selling their bodies for money or drugs or anything else!! But to me it is really sad and also very scary. One boy that I read about that really interested me was a boy from Bangkok who instead of being called a prostitute was called a rent boy. He had started selling his body at the age of 9. The men who abused him gave him a bag of five pence pieces (money). By the time he had reached the age of 13, he was being passed around between a group of men. There was also a girl who caught my eye, she was living on the streets and she was just 12 when she stated she said “A man approached me one time…I didn’t want to do him and the geezer had me up by my throat threaten to kill me, I was actually really scared, I didn’t know whether he as going to knock me out or do what. They could just stab you, they could take you down n alley, they could rape you, and then kill you, they could do anything.” Some of the kids and adults who are in this business are addicted to drugs, mostly crack cocaine.
I think that this is a world wide problem, and I still feel that our government really is not doing anything. I feel that many governments are not doing anything to stop what is going on. I know that for some men and women and even kids, this is the lifestyles that they choice. What about the kids who didn’t wan this for then self’s. What happens to the children, men and women who are being forced to do this? Then what happens these peoples bodies are found dead somewhere? What about their families, and friends and people who care about them? The definition for prostitute is an exchange of sex for money. Maybe the people who do this feel that this is the only way they can make money, but it isn’t. They should really consider how much danger they out them selves into each time, the get into a car with someone, or go anywhere. Think first, be first try and find another way out!!



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