Prostitution is the sale of sexual services, such as oral sex or sexual intercourse, for money. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute, a type of sex worker. In a more general sense of the word, anyone selling his/her services for a cause thought to be unworthy can be described as prostituting him/herself. In the UK a prostitute is any individual, "who allows his/her body to be used for lewd purposes in return for payment". Prostitution - Overview and definitions. While prostitutes and thei ...

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Prostitution - Legal issues. Roughly speaking, the possible attitudes are: abolition: "prostitution should be made to disappear" "prostitution is immoral and prostitutes and their clients should be prosecuted": the prevailing attitude in much of the United States and Muslim countries; "prostitution is a sad reality of exploitation of the prostitutes, especially women, but prostitutes should not be criminalized", the current situation in Turkey. "the clients of prosti ...

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The Optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the prostitution of children or child prostitution is the practice whereby a child is used by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration (Article 2(b)). The remuneration or other consideration ...

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While most sex tourists only engage in this activity with other adults, a small percentage actively look for adolescent or even younger prostitutes, while others are not very selective either way, regarding age. Several countries have severe laws making sex with children (see pedophilia and ephebophilia) a serious offense, for their nationals or inhabitants even if practiced abroad and even if it is not forbidden by ...

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Federal law prohibits American citizens to engage in international travel with the purpose of having sex with a person under the age of 18, even if the age of consent in the target country is below 18. Prosecutions under this law are very rare. As of 2005, there has been one effort to go after a sex tour operator: Big Apple Oriental Tours of New York was prosecuted for "promotion of prostitution" by the New York State Attorney General aft ...

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A term that sex tourists oftentimes use to describe themselves is "mongerers," and traveling for sex as "mongering." This apparently derives from the word "warmonger" or "whoremongerer." One term sometimes used for a sex tourist is "sexpat". Its derivation is from expat and did not originally refer to tourists per se, but rather those with similar motivations who have actually relocated to such a location, either as workers or as retirees. The word has ...

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Popular national destinations for sex tourists include The Netherlands, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Cuba, and several countries in Southeast Asia (including the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia.) Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have also become popular destinations for sex tourists. In many of those destinations, sex tourism is still only a small percentage of overall prostituti ...

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Child prostitution is sometimes used to describe the wider concept commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). However, child prostitution excludes other identifiable manifestations of CSEC, such as commercial sexual exploitation through child marriage, domestic child labour and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It was the limitations of the term child prostitution that led to the development in the mid-1990s of the term commercial sexual exploitation of children as a more encompassing ...

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Children are often pushed by social structures and individual agents into situations in which adults take advantage of their vulnerability and sexually exploit and abuse them. An all too common example of structure and agency combining to force a child into commercial sex is where the prostitution of a child follows on from prior sexual abuse, most likely in their own home. The prostitution of children is usually conducted in particular environments, such as from brothels, or bars and clubs, or homes, or particular streets and areas ( ...

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While the legality of adult prostitution varies between different parts of the world, the prostitution of children is generally considered to be illegal everywhere, even if only on paper. Some literature considers the prostitution of children (or 'child prostitutes') as referring to children who are prepubescent and children who are in the early stages of puberty. It refers to older children (usually 13 to 17 years of age) as 'teenage prostitutes'. However, the key standard is set by the ILO's Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, d ...

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It is very difficult to determine the extent of prostitution of children due to the illegal and hidden nature thereof. Whilst there has been some moral panic and exaggeration of the scale, there is extensive evidence that it is widespread globally. In Ukraine, a survey conducted by the non-governmental organization (NGO) “La Strada-Ukraine” in 2001-2003, based on a sample of 106 women being 'trafficked' out of Ukraine found that 3% were under 18, and the US State Department reported in 2004 that incidents of minors being trafficked was increasing. In Thailand, NGOs have estimated that up t ...

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There is a significant range in the socioeconomic status of prostitutes in Western countries. At the low end, a significant number of prostitutes are also drug addicts who use prostitution to pay for their habit, sometimes referred to as 'crack whores' because of the prevalence of this behavior among some communities of crack cocaine users. At the other end of the spectrum, 'high class' prostitutes may charge ve ...

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While prostitutes and their clients represent all sexes and all sexual orientations, the overwhelming majority of clients are male. Prostitution is rejected by most modern religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; in some cultures, their customers are typically also looked down upon but are usually tolerated to a greater degree than the prostitute. The English word whore, referring to (female) prostitutes, is taken from the Old English ...

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While prostitutes and their clients represent all sexes and all sexual orientations, the majority of clients are male. Prostitution is rejected by most modern religions as being improper or sinful, and prostitutes are considered to be shameful or individuals of low standing in most societies; in some cultures, their customers are typically also looked down upon but are usually tolerated to a greater degree than the prostitute. The English word whore, referring to (female) prostitutes, is taken from the Old English word hōra ...

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Prostitution today occurs in various different settings. In street prostitution the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street. Prostitution occurs in some massage parlors and in Asian countries in some barber shops where sexual services may be offered for an additional tip. Where prostitution is more out in the open, solicitation is done at bars, even open-air bars. Thailand is famous world-wide for these establishments. < ...

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Since prostitutes tend to have large numbers of sexual partners, prostitution has often been associated with the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as AIDS. Typical responses to the problem are: banning prostitution completely introducing a system of registration for prostitutes that mandates health checks and other public health measures educating prostitutes and their clients to encourage the use of barrier contracepti ...

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Prostitution is often described as "the world's oldest profession". Prostitution (at least in the modern sense) cannot have emerged before the emergence of money, which can only have taken place after the emergence of several trades, and it has been claimed that midwives are really the world's oldest profession. However, prostitution has been noted in Bonobo chimpanzee behavior based around access to food and gifts of food, and in penguins in regard to access for suitable stones for nest building. Until the age of industrialization the world ...

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