Defining Prostitution

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Defining Prostitution

Prostitution is a word which applies to far more circumstances than

its' usual legal definition which is about prohibiting massive

"whoring". I have a very simple way of defining prostitution:

Prostitution is when you do something for money that you wouldn't be

doing without being paid. You will find under this definition that

there are quite a few whores who are not prostitutes, for they

actually love what they do, and would continue to engage in

promiscuous sex even without the monetary reward. What would be

"shocking" to the average person is to realize that the average person

is in fact a prostitute. Most people do the jobs they do only for the

money, not because they actually enjoy the work enough to continue

doing it even without a monetary reward. However prostitution is also

commonly thought to harm the public health and quality of life of many

others not directly active it.

Different societies have viewed prostitution in widely divergent

ways. The three approaches to prostitution I will discuss are the

liberal, the classical Marxist, and the radical feminist approach. A

comparison of these theories of prostitution demonstrates a

significant contrast of philosophical views that prostitution has had

on society.

The liberal positions on prostitution are that prostitution should be

legalized which would eliminate laws prohibiting prostitution and

allow prostitutes to work without fear of state prosecution or

legalization although, they have always seen prostitution as degrading

to women. The liberal feminist support women choices to commodity

their sexuality and argue that the choices are us...

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in a certain sense it is important to recognize that the forms that

prostitution take and consequently, the condition of prostitutes,

would vary widely in different parts of the world, and therefore would

require attention to their specific aspects. Although we tend to have

this close-mindedness to the situation, we need to see that

prostitutes are people also. We need to understand that they deserve

the same basic human rights that we do. Just because their profession

is controversial does not mean that they should be treated with less

respect. Prostitutes, for the most part, do not choose to spend the

rest of their lives doing this, nor do they choose that this is what

they want to be when they grow up. It is a trap that many women fall

into and find it very hard to get out of, once you are in.

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