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Hail Marygrace
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Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
August 13, 2003 - 08:48 AM
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The start of prostitution was written in the HOLY SCRIPTURES, Where Mary Magdalene, asked the forgiveness of our saviour Jesus Christ. Although, it was not stated in the Holy Book that Magdalene, is a prostitute caused by poverty then....
In our society today, common prostitution is just in the corner. We cannot pinpoint if the caused of this act, by poverty or something that urged them to do just for fun of it. Or we may call it for pleasure or better than that it thrills them to do it... Mostly, youngster of today was not left by society in guidance: If what is good or bad. We are intittled to our own choice in life. But if we talk about prositution is caused by poverty, is think this is a serious problems that we are facing then?! We cannot just let the issue past because we cannot blame the actions they are commiting/doing. Facing the reality of what happend to each in every life we have is really a difficult battle for us to fight or face it...
Maybe we should act within our own concience inorder for us to survive!!!!!!!!!
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Not always
August 25, 2003 - 06:49 AM
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Prostitution can be a desperate cry for help or attention, or an easy way to earn money. Different situation call for different answers. But I am sure there is a better way, though it may not be as quick or easy.
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Hail Marygrace
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
September 8, 2003 - 07:24 AM
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There is this local saying in our country: While your still alive, there is full/lots of chances in life.
I agree with you that the easiest way is to consent reluctantly, what is in store in the fastest and easiest way in order to survive in life.
Gracias!
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poverty is the main cause
November 24, 2003 - 02:07 AM
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so many prostitutes (well i would prefer to call them commercial workers)are there not by choice but by circumstance,in my country most of them would quit this job if they could find a job that could put food in the table.(interview shows that)poverty has lead to people taking extreme measures to survive and i must say the customers in this habit are really promoting this.prostituion ahs been one of the issues discussed time and time again well,what is being done to reduce it or stop it?
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Prostitution is means for survival
November 24, 2003 - 03:02 AM
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Some may say that prostitution is a desperate means to seek attention,but as was also suggested by another member-different situations do call for different answers.
Prostitution for me is a means to make a living due to poverty and exceedingly high unemployment rates in the world. Unfortunately this may sound like a simple cop-out but it is a reality too. When people are unemployed and living below the bread line, they need to find whatever means that are available to survive. It is a shallow fact of the world and in fact one of the universe too- that money is what makes the world go round. If this were not the case then there would be no markets for exchange, globalisation or even liberal democracy. In essence what I am saying is that we should not condone prostitution as a norm entirely if we do not wish to but should also not shun upon it as a disgrace.
Some may disagree with the above arguement for various reasons-which is fine, but it is important to understand that this is purely a subjective issue. In essence I would even go as far as saying that in those countries where it is not legalised perhaps it should because it would remove the stigma that is attached to it and regulate it in a manner that would make it less dangerous for the workers.
The thing is poverty is not the only reason, some poeple may be chased away from their homes and their communities and find that this is the only opportunity that they have. Lack of education is also be a mitigating factor because if one is uneducated then they have fewer options available to them to make informed decisions.Once they have decided to do it, it is their decision possibly not their favourite but an option nonetheless-especially because they do not hurt or kill anyone whilst doing it. However this fact alone is not enough to condone it.
As I stated in the beggining different situations do call for different answers. Life is too short to judge ithers on the types of proffessions that they choose to embark on.
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
November 25, 2003 - 01:26 AM
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Its called the worlds oldest profession - and remember there are many discreete forms - obviously you have your night walkers who parade around street corners and 'work' for cash or drugs and have pimps.
But there are also cortesans who 'work' once a day for as much as $10,000 a trick - this is of course more rare - but those women do often enjoy their lifestyle.
But prostitution takes many forms - there are many 'kept women' around the world with older wealthy men who pick up all their bills, often rent them an apartment ect.
I have met a few cute 25 year old girls with a sugar daddy who is usually already married and just keeps his misteress in style.
Anyway, as long as guys are willing to pay for it - thee will be certain girls who profit off their bodies.
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
November 25, 2003 - 07:38 AM
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Lack of economic opportunities (which could mean poverty) I think is the main reason. If the chocies and opportunities are present, I don't think those who go into prostitution would do so.
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i still wonder ...
November 25, 2003 - 10:02 AM
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what makes people - do we have figures about gender proportions? - go into prostitution. i think one has to feel terribly lost to do so.
i heard though, that there are about to exist some people who do enjoy this kind of "work" ... i can´t imagine. is this really the case? how could one enjoy to give oneself to several strangers and share the most intimate thing in life with them? maybe these people did not experience true love?
i still can´t understand ...
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November 25, 2003 - 11:04 AM
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Prostitution has been as old as man can remeber. Their are various reasons for people going into it. Some for money, some for fuun some are due to peer pressure and some go into it due to depression or early child abuse.
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Prostitution!!..
November 29, 2003 - 02:52 AM
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Some people have gone further to talk about types of prostitution. Nowadays, women and men (yea men!) who sell thier bodies to provide sexual satisfaction for a cost would rather call themselves as "Sex-Workers".
If we were to define things clearly, it would mean that a "Sex-Worker", would be an individual whose basic trade is providing sexual satifaction, he is fully aware of what he/she is doing and considers it as an occupation. He does not do it because of desperation, starvation or poverty. He considers it a mode of business.. so would you dispute this with him and say what he is doing is wrong?? He would most probably say.. 'I enjoy it, I like it, I see a prospective career in it and I'm good at it'.. ok.. case closed!
Now lets come to the other part of the story.. Some do it for lack of money or being able to provide to their familes, desperate circumstances caused by dis-satisfying jobs, or no jobs. Its a pity, that something as petty as money can put people in such dire circumstances.
Sometimes and most of the times if you find people in this business, they are there cos of poverty,..(this is something one of the sex-workers said to me while I was conducting a seminar on education for women)..
"when you haven't eaten in days and see lots of crying faces infront of you ..what do you do?? and then you get used to it", she also said that, "all this chastity and fussing about having sex is for people who have the luxury to talk about it and decide whether its good or bad. We cannot afford it, if we go around making a fuss what will we eat! ... even if we decide to leave it.. who will accept us?? who will marry our daughters?? who will give us a chance?? this whole thing is just talk.."
There are others who are dragged into this area because of ignorance. Young girls and boys, who do not know what they're getting into and then do not know how to get out off. Some perverts, just know how to manipulate young minds who are still in the learning process, and push them into the field. A field which these minds will NOT choose if they knew what it was.
This whole business seems to be more of an upcoming necessary lifestyle for people who have lots of everything. They do not know what to do with their live and money and drift apart. More like I need variety, and everyone is doing it!!.. (I still don't get it!) It is indirectly prostitution but they refuse to give it that name.
Some think its cool ...blah and blahed.. (yawns!!)
So what do we do??? Good Question..
Create awareness. In a world where people are ready to believe anything and where things are so dissillusioned that sometimes you cannot distinguish the right from the wrong, in such a world, lend a hand.. be more informative about people around you, youngsters around you. Don't say you don't care!... Take interest in people, you dont have to really join an organistaion. You just have to keep in touch with people and humanity. If you think something is not right and is against humanity or if a person is doing soemthing he/she will not otherwise normally do then it becomes necessary to help him/her out..
Most of all.. don't encourage it!! don't push people into it
(This is for all perverted individuals who're reading this post!)
.. have a HEART!! .. atleast try to have one.
And yea dont justify it by saying..we need to be happy and we're frustrated and thats why we do it, cos we need it ... there are more things to life!
.. GO GET A LIFE!!
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
March 9, 2004 - 03:25 AM
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Its nice to get back to the real issue in here, since we just celebrated the International Women's Day yesterday.
I have this observation and it was written in the Holy Sriptures that Mary Magdalene, the first woman we knew as the first sex worker then.. It also brings to the history that mostly women's is engage in this kind of profession.
But now its another story, in other countries even here in asia alone. Not only women's is in top list of prostitution thing, but all kinds of gender now. So the world is more getting complicated nowadays and it gives us the reason to help find the primary cause of prostitution we have.
Lots of findings in different research and studies for so many years now, but still the cause is much more complicated now! Because the way of life we are practicing and encountering this day!
Gracias!
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
March 9, 2004 - 05:50 AM
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Prostitution has a lot to do with men also. It is because men seem to forget about the women they marry (if they marry), since they concider them as "sure thing" which doesnt needs any attention.
And women themselves accept that status. By not looking up for themselves, keeping good looks etc. U know, how it is
I personally dont need to pay money to get a lay. I got a girlfriend and i like her a lot and i assume she does me too.
I most of all i dont want women which end up as prostitutes to be blacklisted or any way discriminated. Only thing that we want to do to one another is to give UNCONDITONED PERSISTANT ASSISTANCE. Putting ppl down is not a help.
Ave Futuria
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March 11, 2004 - 09:48 AM
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It makes the work for sex-workers safer. They can make demand on protected sex and get regular medics. They pay taxes and can demand a good price, so do not have to abuse their body's end minds to much.
Most are good actors, who know how to switch of.
Poverty is a direct cause for entering prostitution. Be it because their is no other work or family, as f.i. with woman in Sierra Leone who suffered horrible rape en mutilation but because there is not even one program or family for them, they have no other option than to stay with the men that abused them in the first place or to be traumatized again an again by selling their bodies.
Our Indian friend gave an excellent analysis.
The other group that end up in prostitution in Holland are drugaddicts(often because of poverty and childabuse <this is the perverted form in which they learned love, so they don't know or recognize the 'normal'kind> they ended up in the tricking life, and to keep it up and get over the disgust and horror and pain of it all, start taking drugs.
The other group are illegal foreign girls, as the only way to make money. For those there is also an organisation that does not ask questions but provides condoms, medi check-ups and a warm place to relax and have a cupper, in a little van they use for the purpose.
This might be a start in some countries as a way to reach out and support woman.
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Re: Is prostitution a cause of poverty?!
May 25, 2004 - 05:34 AM
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Exactly ! Of course , prositution is a cause of poverty !
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is poverty the cause of prostitution?
September 30, 2004 - 06:56 AM
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No, I believe it is not!
I am a Dominatrix/writer about sexual personnae, from UK.
Prostitution is `not just` a service industry but the very essence of `Nature`. They are initiates of pagan mysteries.. prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. prostitutes & those in pornography & their patrons are marauders in the forest of the archaic night, they are pagan outlaws, who refuse to be hemmed in by religious & morals ideals.
If prostitution was a symptom of poverty then why do we have prostitutes on all levels of class/income etc?
It can though for some be a means to an end. All relationships are founded on a need basis. Its just a matter of definition what that need is!
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