Crime, Bodies, Culture: Annotated Portfolio on Prostitution Causes

This annotated portfolio delves into the multifaceted causes and societal effects of prostitution. It identifies poverty, child labor, trafficking, and lack of parental care as key drivers that push individuals, particularly vulnerable youth, into prostitution. Peer pressure, the desire for wealth, and substance abuse, especially alcoholism, are also highlighted as contributing factors. The portfolio further discusses the societal implications, including the concentration of prostitution in designated areas, increased violence against sex workers, and the ongoing debate surrounding legalization and human rights. It emphasizes the need to address the root causes of prostitution rather than simply segregating or ignoring the issue, advocating for equal rights and support for those involved. This comprehensive analysis provides valuable insights into the complex dynamics of prostitution and its impact on individuals and society as a whole.

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The Causes and Societal effect of Prostitution
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Victims of Rape, Child Labor, and Trafficking
The Causes of Prostitution
Poverty compels numerous youths to go into prostitution so as to bring home food. The
primary motivation why ladies or men go into this habit is to make profit. The rate of destitution
get expanding faster and this make people who have education to resort and look for ways to

make ends meet. Women and men presently in school and have no support resort to prostitution
as a way of getting finances so that they pay for their education in college (Raphael, 2015).
Moreover, the vices such as child labor, trafficking, and brutality are the reasons why a number
of children find themselves in prostitution. When a child is assaulted at a younger age will grow
up with no self-esteem in life and therefore see nothing good about sex because this has been
spoiled completely. Some youth get coerced and constrained into sexual servitude, pornography,
and prostitution. This perception will later as an adult resort to getting into prostitution (Bagchi
and Sinha, 2016).

In the society, lack of parental care forces children to seek prostitution. In the family, parents’
guide and control their child all through their young age. When there is not care for parents,
children tend to end up wayward and have a tendency to be attracted into different social vices.
The women are free going to parties where they get exposed to prostitution by those already in
prostitution (Hirschi, 2017).

Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is another cause of prostitution. The vast majority of people in prostitution
get lured by friends, kin or relatives. The pressure from the friends has a high impact on a child.
Adolescent kids are significantly impacted by individuals around them since they have not
mapped in their imagination out their life’s pathway (Esiri, 2016).
In the present day society, young people are apathetic, they need to profit and live in
extravagance life without diligent work because of laziness and greed. Those that get little wages

are being intimated by their partners profiting without work. This depletes the confidence,
therefore, making them linked and be associated with prostitution. Some youth from well-off
families are additionally engaged with this vice. They are insatiable and want more riches and
cash besides those from their families (Thompson, 2017).
When there is not care for parents, children tend to end up wayward and have a tendency
tattracted into different social vices

Alcoholism is another cause of prostitution. The liquor is a promoter of sexual desire. Sex
specialists who have attended numerous men upon this subject have discovered that a huge
extent of them committed their first sexual mistakes while affected by liquor. Young people are
particularly inclined to enticement when intoxicated. Liquor inhibits the activity of the will,
numbs the ethical sense, and fortifies the sexual interests. No other toxic substance assumes so
solid a role in the advancement of sex urge and act beside alcohol (Hirschi, 2017).

Liquor inhibits the activity of the will, numbs the ethical sense, and fortifies the sexual interests.
No other toxic substance assumes so solid a role in the advancement of sex urge and act beside
alcohol

The society has lost control on the elimination of prostitution leading to the concentration of
prostitution in some areas of the town. For instance, in Amsterdam, there is the ‘Red Light
District’ a place which is known for prostitution.
This has spread world over and the ‘Red Light District’ has become a term to a neighborhood
known for the concentration of prostitution and is found in major cities such as Paris, New York,
London among many others that have their own ‘Red Light District’

A harbor where criminals hide and terrorize citizens who are innocent. In the 19th century, Jack-
the-Ripper preyed on the souls of innocent prostitutes in London.
The case of murder against the culprit did not end anywhere owing to the fact society refuted the
claims that it never occurred. This is expected because of the differences that are seen in the
society by the fact that prostitutes are taken as low human beings which are augmented by the
absence of laws to protect them

High rate of brutality and murder executed against young children forced to sex and who later
turn into prostitution

The human rights and activists presently are advocating for equal human rights for all
irrespective of class, work, wealth, age or whatever inclination. This brings in some decency in
the society and relieves to the prostitutes since they can have a place to seek solace.
legalize prostitution and there is as well the creation of trade unions that can now protect and
advocate for prostitution, gay and transgender people