A recent CNN article brought to light a growing trend of “compensated dating” in Hong Kong’s teenage girl population. In “compensated dating,” a young woman agrees to go out on a date with a man for a price, but more often the “date” ends up being sex. Though the girls themselves deny it, this type of short-term relationship is really only a variation of teenage prostitution, with the distinction that the girls are handing out sexual favors to earn extra shopping money rather than out of desperation. In an interview with CNN, a 19-year-old former “compensated dater” talks about how she began going on “compensated dates” after seeing the designer clothing and accessories her classmates had bought with money earned on “dates.” Before her so-called …show more content…
Some girls come from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, and others, as the article mentions, just want to replace a new cell phone. However, nearly all of the girls believe that “compensated dating” gives them the power to say no if they do not like the customer, and because they feel that they can stop anytime they want to, they do not think of themselves as prostitutes. The situation in Hong Kong parallels a growing trend in the US. The year 2003 saw a 70 percent rise in the number of teen prostitutes who come from middle to upper-middle class families and have never suffered abuse or mistreatment. As in Hong Kong, many of these American girls are selling themselves for thrills and easy money, and the FBI confirmed that year that the average age of a new teen prostitute is 13 years old. Many of these girls are being picked up at the mall, and the phenomenon is more common in major US cities such as Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Las Vegas and New York. Men purposely pick out girls who are awkward or lonely. Selling sex, no matter what euphemism it’s categorized under, is still a form of prostitution, and girls are putting up their dignity as well as their bodies up for auction. It’s a sad day when girls are willing to throw themselves away for a Coach bag, Gucci glasses, or as we’ve just read about, a new cell
When asked why she is selling her body to complete strangers, the prostitute explains how “Money
Girls develop a dependency on their pimps. Kristina Davis wrote in her article "How Girls Get Lured into Brothels" for The San Diego Union Tribune "They are plied with alcohol and drugs."(Davis) The pimps get the girls hooked on drugs and alcohol to get the girls to need them. The girls become addicted to the substances and need their pimps to supply them with more. In return, the pimps make then work as prostitutes for them. Although the girls develop a physical dependency due to drugs and alcohol, girls can also become emotionally dependent on their pimps. The pimps use friendship and kindness to trick the girls into having an emotional dependency to them. Kristina Davis wrote in her article "How Girls Get Lured into Brothels" for The San Diego Union Tribune '"They are made to believe in the beginning that they are cared for, and by then it’s too late,"' (Davis) The pimps make the
provide. So, they find “boyfriends” who are actually pimps. The younger that girl is, more
However a majority of the girls are abducted or forced while many are attracted in other ways. Fake agencies sometimes posing as massage agencies lure in women into the trafficking industry. These women are offered money, free transportation to these agencies to work, with an agreement that the costs will be paid back through the woman’s earnings for her work (Hodge, D. 2008). Other girls are lured in through brothels, escort services, hostess clubs, and strip clubs (Kotrla, K. 2010) where they are abused, manipulated, and have been forced to participate in sexual acts against their will.
There is a widespread discrepancy in the definition of prostitution, most would agree that it is: sexual in nature, and the compensation for performing the sexual act is either money or other material goods; however, these transactions vary, ranging from specified sexual acts and goods, which can be exchanged to broader context. These transactions occur in the street, bawdyhouse, massage parlour, and inside private residences or hotels.
In both Sleeping Dogs and Grand Theft Auto Series, buying from prostitutes for sex provides the player with power ups or health regeneration which means that these women operates basically the same as the beverages which the player can buy from vending machines in games. This is a textbook example of how women are represented as objects since these women serve as “resources” rather than human like characters.
How often do you think teenage girls or boys are sex trafficked? Sure we hear about it all of the time in other countries like Paris or Japan, but how often does it happen right here in America? Too often. Globally 2.4 million people are trafficked for labor, 80% of them are used as sex slaves. Another common question would be what is human trafficking? “trafficking has been defined most often as the trade in women and children for prostitution or other immoral purposes.” “ It has been further clarified that victims do not need to be transported across international or other boundaries in order for trafficking to exist.” (Clawson J Heather, Dutch Nicole, Solomon Amy, and Grace Goldblatt Lisa. Aspe. Human Trafficking Into and Within the United States: A Review of the Literature Aspe 30, Aug 2009.)
One of the “finer things in life”(par. 4) in which sugar daddies are now increasingly providing for their sugar babies is a college education, or, at the very least, the money needed to acquire one. In an article titled “How Sugar Daddies Are Financing College Education”, Caroline Kitchener of the Atlantic writes of a prostitution website created uniquely for sugar babies and sugar daddies. The website is called Seeking Arrangement. On Seeking Arrangement sugar babies are connected to and can view both the profiles and incomes of various sugar daddies (Kitchener, par. 4). In fact, the website is set up and is promoted basically like any other run-of-the-mill dating/partner seeking site (par. 5), even though money is often times traded for intercourse (par. 5). In designing
Prostitution and Commercialized Vice is a unique category of crime in that it is the only crime for which a greater number of women are arrested than men, and where the arrest rates for white offenders is greater than that of any other race combined (United States 2014). As used in this essay, prostitution is defined as the exchange of sexual acts and services for money (Walsh, Section XIII, p. 500). The key players in the crime of prostitution include those who exchange sexual acts and services - tricks - for money (prostitutes), those who recruit a prostitute and arrange meetings with clients in order to take a portion of their earnings (pimps), the keepers of a bawdy house or brothel (madam), and the individuals who purchase sexual acts and services (Johns). (Walsh, Section XIII p. 483). In the UCR for 2010, the total number of arrests for prostitution and commercialized vice was 62,670, with the female population of arrestees (43,190 total female arrestees) more than twice the number of male arrestees (19,480 total male arrestees) (United States 2014). In a 2000 General Social Survey, 17% of American men self-reported paying for sex (Levitt, Venkatesh; McGough) ; using this information in congruence with the UCR report that more than twice as many women than men were arrested for the crime, it is fair to assume that roughly 34% of
Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking
Traffickers manipulate adolescents and youth into the sex trafficking through targeting their emotional vulnerabilities. To begin, traffickers use threats, intimidation and violence to enforce or entice adolescents into trafficking. One adolescent, a runaway from Baltimore County, Maryland, is gang raped by a group of men associated with the trafficker, who thereafter executes a “rescue” (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011) Following the “rescue”, the trafficker imposes she recompense him by working for him as one of his prostitutes (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). Unfortunately, in many cases youth are generally beaten up until they yield to the trafficker’s orders (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011).
This type of high-scale prostitution is slavery in its own right, with the young adults essentially victims of their situation. One account reported by ABC News shares that a young sugar baby is engaging in sex with her sugar daddy in order to pay for her college (Monte & Tommy, 2014). While it is considered advantageous by both parties, it is no different than the corner prostitution prominent across the nation- the victim needs a source of income and there is an individual willing to provide just that at quite the cost. Pornography, sugaring, and their close connection to the field of prostitution are not just about sex. Rather, they are all about the exploitation of sex, which at its very core, is modern day
Prostitution is defined as the act of “providing or receiving sexual acts, between a prostitute and a client, in exchange for money or some other form of remuneration” (Hock 557). The idea of exchanging sex for valuables has been around since the beginning of human society. The first reported data about prostitution was reported around 3000 B.C.E in one of the first known civilizations, Mesopotamia (Caraboi and Fierbinteanu 362). It is often referred to as “the world’s oldest profession.” Today, even though prostitution is illegal in most parts of the world, it is still prevalent worldwide with different ways to exchange sexual services for payment and many different types of prostitutes. One of these types of prostitutes are brothel workers; brothel workers work in “a house of prostitution,” a brothel, which are normally in areas where prostitution is not criminalized or is legalized (Hock 560). Like prostitution, human trafficking has been around for thousands of years and is still present today.
In bars in Thailand, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic, guys pay bar fees to leave a club with a worker and spend several days with her, Weitzer writes. The guys often foreigners pay the woman's expenses during that time, in an arrangement that often confers status on the prostitute. The women earn low-to-moderate salaries. (Fuchs 1)
Imagine this scenario: you are walking on the street with your daughter and you see a group of girls. A few minutes later, a man arrives and offers money for one of the girls. She, then, accepts the money and gets into the car with him. How would you explain that scene to your daughter? In the U.S., some states such as Nevada have already legalized prostitution. Should Florida be the next? According to the Oxford dictionary, prostitution is the act of granting sexual favors in exchange for payment, yet it has existed throughout history in all parts of the world. It is a fact that most parents would not be proud to see their daughters becoming prostitutes and selling their bodies. Women are not merchandise. The State should take an action; however, legalizing prostitution is not the answer to reduce forced prostitution, stop trafficking of women and children, decrease the STDs, or minimize other types of crime.