Forms Of Prostitution Research Articles

A Historical Study of Prostitution

Since the beginning of time, the history of romantic relationships between men and women has been one of the most fascinating and complex. Hugging and sexual intercourse between men and women is an example of a romantic act that can take many forms. Different countries' policies on prostitution, such as legal and illegal forms, have been widely disseminated. Various forms of prostitution, such as consensual and forced prostitution, will be discussed here. Every country and every type of society has had some form of prostitution at some point in its history. It is an age old social evil. Kautilya in Arthashastra refers to the ganikas as an indispensable factor in royal courts and in India, it became institution in the post Vedic period Prostitution was an organized profession and was a source of revenue to the State in ancient times. A prostitute is a woman who sells herself for sexual purpose to a great number of men in succession and with little or no choice among them. This article is prepared through analytical and archival method of research.

A Historical Study of Prostitution

Since the beginning of time, the history of romantic relationships between men and women has been one of the most fascinating and complex. Hugging and sexual intercourse between men and women is an example of a romantic act that can take many forms. Different countries' policies on prostitution, such as legal and illegal forms, have been widely disseminated. Various forms of prostitution, such as consensual and forced prostitution, will be discussed here. Every country and every type of society has had some form of prostitution at some point in its history. It is an age old social evil. Kautilya in Arthashastra refers to the ganikas as an indispensable factor in royal courts and in India, it became institution in the post Vedic period Prostitution was an organized profession and was a source of revenue to the State in ancient times. A prostitute is a woman who sells herself for sexual purpose to a great number of men in succession and with little or no choice among them. This article is prepared through analytical and archival method of research.

The new face of Italian prostitution in the aftermath of the Merlin Law: forms, debate and repression

ABSTRACT This article aims to investigate the ways in which Italian prostitution changed following the abolition of the regulatory regime, enacted by the 1958 Merlin Law. It focuses on the principles that inspired the law and on the anxiety that it generated among state institutions, especially those which saw the abolition of the ‘closed houses’ (case chiuse) as a threat to sexual morality and the established order. The abolition of state-regulated prostitution was met with neo-regulationist institutional fury, including renewed repressive measures attempting to prevent the rise of new forms of prostitution that were not under state surveillance. By examining the reactions of the organs of public security and the political apparatus, this article will uncover the underlying reasons for the persistence of the old regulatory model, which struggled to adapt to new forms of contemporary prostitution and to the explosion of new expressions of sexuality.

Conflict of female sex workers in films Moammar Emka’s Jakarta Undercover

<p><em><strong>Abstract</strong><br /></em></p><p><em>Moammar Emka’s Jakarta Undercover is a movie that was lifted from four series of works by Moammar Emka with the same little. Moammar Emka’s Jakarta Undercover tells the Jakarta city nightlife that is full of surprises, which includes the ambitions of its citizens, various forms of prostitution and parties that claimed to be unknow, to drugs. This film has a mission voice humanity’s value to society. The director, dawn nugros wants to visualize and raise the issue of violence against women, thuggery, poverty, the screams of minorities. The purpose of this research is to find out the conflicts that occur in women of high sex workers. This research is a qualitative research using John Fiske semiotic analysis through The Televison Codes.<strong> </strong>The results of this study indicate that The Moammar Emka’s Jakarta Undercover movie, represents upper-class commercial sex workers as well some conflicts received by women. And shows the dark side of the Jakarta City, which is carried out by supermodels, officials, and other uppers classes. In addition, this study shows that some of the conflict underlying women work in the world of high class prostitution and invite many risks. That movie also gives a voice to women about gender inequality.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>

Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses

The main objective of this article is to provide a multi-faceted and spatially-sensitive reflection on sex work. Taking as a point of departure subversive feminist politics on the one hand and the much contingent notion of citizenship on the other, I intend to present various forms of prostitution as potentially positive and empowering modes of sexual and emotional auto-creation. Informed by the leading research of the subject, as well as inspired and educated by Australia-based Dr Elizabeth Smith from La Trobe University in Melbourne, who had researched and presented female sex workers as self-caring and subversive subjects who make own choices and derive satisfaction from their occupation, I wish to seek academic justice for all those women (and men or trans people, for that matter) in the sex industry who feel stigmatized by political pressure and ultra-feminist circles across Europe. Translating Dr Smith’s significant research into European (and Polish) social realities would be a valuable contribution to the local discussions on gender and sexuality, and axes they intersect with. More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted—one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. Therefore, as a queer lesbian scholar based in Poland, I would like to diverge a bit from my usual topic in order to pay an academic and activist tribute to the much neglected strand of sociology of sex work. However, my multi-faceted and interdisciplinary academic activity allows me to combine the matter in question with the field of lesbian studies. Both a female sex worker and a lesbian have been culturally positioned through the lens of what so-called femininity is, without a possibility to establish control over their own subjectivities. Hence, on the one hand the article is going to be an academic re-interpretation of sex work as such, but on the other, methodological possibilities of acknowledging and researching lesbian sex workers will be additionally considered with special attention to feminist epistemologies and praxis. While a sensitivity to a given locality is of utmost importance when dealing with gender and sexuality issues, I would like to suggest a somewhat overall approach to investigating both female empowerment through sex work and lesbian studies inclusive of sex workers. Importantly, the more common understandings of the sex industry need to be de-constructed in order for a diversity of transgressive discourses to emerge.

البغاء في القاهرة خلال العصر العثماني (1517 ـ 1798م) دکتور / حامد عبد الحميد مشهور

وجدت عدة عوامل اقتصادية واجتماعية وأمنية ساعدت على انتشار البغاء في مدينة القاهرة خلال العصر العثماني، ومن هذه العوامل الفقر وضعف الثقافة الدينية، بجانب حالات الطلاق التي دفعت بعض المطلقات للسير في هذا الطريق. وساعد على ذلک تواطأ بعض رجال الأمن وتسترهم على البغايا ومعاونيهم. وظهر للبغاء شکلين: أحدهما مقنن خصصت له الإدارة مراکز محددة لحصاره جغرافيا، وأخر في أماکن مختلفة بأحياء القاهرة. أما عقوبة البغاء فکانت مستمدة من الشريعة الاسلامية مثل الجلد وغيره، هذا بالإضافة لعقوبات التشهير کالسحل والتمثيل بالبغايا. کما وجدت عقوبات مبالغ فيها مثل الشنق للحد من هذه الظاهرة الخطيرة. Abstract There were several economical, social and security factors which helped the spread of prostitution during the Ottoman age. Among those factors was poverty and the weakness of religious culture . In addition to the divorce cases which pushed some of the women divorcees to go along this road . Also, the complicity of some of the security men and their covering up of the prostitutes and their aides. There appeared two forms of prostitution : First : legal prostitution which the central administration allocated certain centers for it to limit it geographically. The other form was in different places in the Cairo districts . Concerning the punishment for prostitution, it was derived from the Islamic sharia such as flogging… etc. This in addition to the other punishments such as libel, dragging in the streets and deforming the prostitutes. There were also exaggerated punishments such as hanging to limit this dangerous phenomena.

Putting on the red boots: role-play as ‘coping work’ and ‘creative work’ in the theatrical representation of prostitution

This article examines the representation of various forms of prostitution in a range of contemporary theatre pieces, from the traumatised victims of sex-trafficking in Cora Bissett’s and Stef Smith’s RoadKill (Traverse, Edinburgh 2010; Theatre Royal, Stratford East 2011), to more diverse depictions of sex workers in Alecky Blythe’s verbatim piece The Girlfriend Experience (Royal Court 2008; Young Vic 2009) and the group devised Sex Workers’ Opera (Courtyard Theatre 2014; Arcola 2015; Pleasance, Islington 2016). Particular attention is paid to examining each piece’s claims towards ‘authenticity’ of representation. Alongside this, instances of metatheatricality and role-playing within the role within each of these works are considered, highlighting the adoption of performance practices by real-life and fictionalised prostitutes. Drawing on Kirsten Pullen’s study of the overlap between actresses and ‘whores’, which suggests performance as a strategy that lends agency to sex workers, on Bertolt Brecht’s model of gestic acting, and on Dorothy Heathcote’s definitions of the twin aims of role-play as ‘coping work’ and ‘creative work’, this article examines the potential for each within the performative acts of prostitutes.

Swinburne reads Keats: Prostitution, pornography and the decadence of aesthetic critique

AbstractKeats and Swinburne loom large as purveyors of the “aesthetic” in its early and late nineteenth-century forms—that is, as a discourse of subject-formation through the exercise of tasteful distinction and as a self-referential discourse of art for art’s sake, respectively. In this essay, I analyse how Swinburne constructs a “Keats” that will allow him to master a “manliness in crisis” that affected both writers. If this “crisis” is historicized by the body as a social matter that Victorian legislators were policing in the forms of prostitution and pornography, it is, I argue, this materiality that Keats and Swinburne insist of enjoying rather than sublimating. The ultimate question I pose is this: can aesthetics become the critical discourse that recent revisionary readings have postulated if both a Romantic and a Decadent aesthetic insist on enjoying the body, materiality, gender instability and other topoi communicated by prostitution, pornography and poetry.

Harms of production: theorising pornography as a form of prostitution

Synopsis Traditionally recognised forms of prostitution (such as brothel, street and escort prostitution) tend to be seen, in both popular culture and in law, as separate from pornography. The pornography industry is often represented as a less harmful and more glamorous part of the sex industry. These representations, coupled with academic debates that have typically focused on the consumption rather than the production of pornography, have resulted in some of the harms of pornography being obscured. It is argued here that commercial pornography should be understood as prostitution and, potentially, as a form of prostitution carrying specific and additional harms. This may offer useful ways forward for feminist analyses of the harms of pornography.

The Development of Norwegian Prostitution Policies: A Marriage of Convenience Between Pragmatism and Principles

The article describes and analyzes debates on prostitution policies in Norway from 1970 until the introduction of a ban against the purchase of sexual services in 2009. Throughout these decades, it has varied whether prostitution as such, that is in principle, has been considered a problem and if so, whether it has been seen as predominantly a legal or a social problem. In some periods, only particular forms of prostitution have been considered problematic, while prostitution as such has not been considered in need of legal intervention. In other periods, prostitution per se has been considered the problem, and in these periods attempts to differentiate between different forms of prostitution have been resisted. The coming together of the pragmatic and principled concerns of various political actors was an important reason for the actual passing of the legal reform criminalizing the purchase of sexual services. The effective coming together of principled and practical concerns must be simultaneously understood in the context of other developments, both locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Changing Social and Legal Context of Sexual Commerce - Why Regulation Matters

This volume seeks to respond to a particular moment in the study of commercial sex and its governance, pinpointed by an unprecedented rise in, and increased visibility of, sexual commerce and consumption and corresponding growth in associated forms of regulation. Whilst common themes of controlling sexuality and changes in regulatory frameworks knit these papers into a coherent collection, the diversity of sex markets covered (male sex work, men who buy sex, pornography, bar dancing, legalized brothels and sex shops) echoes the nuisances of the 'sex industry' and challenges traditional academic concentration on narrow forms of prostitution. We discuss these dynamics in the context of post- industrial transformations of culture and sexuality in which what has been described as an 'unbridled ethic of sexual consumption' and 'soaring demand' for a variety of forms of commercial sex are symptomatic of the way in which sexual commerce commerce is increasingly 'specialized and diversified along technological, spacial, and social lines'. This leads to more visible availability in, and demand for, pornography, lap dancing, escorts, telephone sex, and sexual tourism, especially in developing countries.

From bag brides to skeezers: a historical perspective on sex-for-drugs behavior.

There are many ways that women support their use of crack cocaine, including sex-for-crack bartering and other forms of prostitution. Empirical studies conducted in the mid-1970s and in the mid-1980s in New York City, and in Chicago in the late 1980s to early 1990s are compared, analyzing similarities and differences between the contemporary crack-prostitution scene and previous prostitution scenes. Findings suggest that the arrival of crack cocaine has directly and indirectly affected the drugs-prostitution nexus by lowering the price of sex for street prostitutes, altering the social status of cocaine, and increasing the level of social disorganization in illicit street activities, including prostitution. Barterers are shown to be the heaviest drug users, using the greatest variety of drugs, using larger amounts of drugs, and using more frequently.

Pederasty Among Primitives:

For several reasons it is difficult to find examples of pederastic practices in historical and ethnological sources. Besides the social taboo, these practices have always been mixed up with other forms of sexual contact. However, existing material shows pederastic practices in primitive societies as initiation rituals for male youth. Several examples of institutionalized pederasty, especially from the area of Papua-New Guinea and Melanesia are described. These practices, with a clear societal function, are part of a distinct outlook on life and only superficially resemble the man-boy relationships we can observe today. In other parts of the world, pederastic practices were forms of prostitution. Taking place in a religious context, it was also a different form of prostitution than the one we commonly know. Both forms of man-boy involvement attempt to attain assimilation through physical contact. In these practices sexuality serves purposes other than sexual satisfaction and procreation.

Youth prostitution: A balance of power

The term prostitute value laden as it is is often not the preferred term adopted by the youngsters in question. Business girl/boy Rent boy Hustler Trade these are just some of the terms employed as preferences. Indeed some young people involved in any on of the various forms of Prostitution would deny totally that they are prostitutes at all. Denial plays an important role in other ways too which will be shown later. Whatever the individual motivations for adopting on term over another one effect it has is to take those in question out of the moral arena of judgements. As a defence mechanism the denial serves to protect them from any internal or external social force. Furthermore if we call a vulnerable young person a prostitute or we assume in our approach thats what the young person is then we increase the likelihood of that young person more fully becoming a prostitute. Engaging in acts of prostitution does not make one a life member to the profession. Or to put it even more plainly prostitution is behaviour--not a person--and a prostitute is merely a term which describes a persons behaviour. (excerpt)

Picture a Coalition

As a twenty-three-year-old faggot, I get no affirmation from my culture. I see issues that affect my life-the issues raised by AIDS-being considered in ways that will probably end my life. For this reason I think that if there is to be a movement that will shift the discussion of AIDS away from the moralizing, punitive attitude that has characterized this country's policy, it will be built out of an emergent popular culture, one that affirms the lives of those affected. It will be a counterculture that will grow out of a broad-based mobilization to end the global epidemic. There are already moves to contain this growing activism. Threats of mass HIV antibody testing and quarantine are written in banner headlines. Certain individuals and groups have already been subject to such assaultswithin those institutions where surveillance is most easily enforced. This is not even to mention the discrimination people living with AIDS (PLWAs) have faced in all aspects of social life. The first targets of repression are, as always, the most disenfranchised. Thus, New York City's health commissioner Stephen Joseph has recently called for consideration of mandatory AIDS testing [sic] for prostitutes and sex and drug offenders, as well as a heavy crackdown on all forms of prostitution.' What purpose will enforced testing serve? Test results will establish much more than the extent to which a population has been exposed to a virus. Their

A typology of office harlots: Mistresses, party girls, and career climbers

This paper is a descriptive study of a sample of women (N=24) who have used sex as a way of moving up within an organization. All were in positions in which they did very little work, received high wages, and attributed these circumstances to either a sexual affair(s) with a boss or bosses and/or clients of the company. A typology of office sex is developed from this study: mistress, party girl, and career climber. The data gathered were all obtained in interviews with these women. The authors used two key informants for gaining access to the sample. The theoretical implication of adding the office harlot to the other forms of prostitution are discussed.