Prostitution is a way of selling sex. The prostitutes think that what they do is a job, or they want it to be. They want to pay taxes and be treated like normal workers. In some countries they are. If you consider prostitution is a job, the employees could for example be directed to a brothel. Sweden says that they want equality in society, but how can that be if there are prostitutes who let themselves to be underestimated by men who want to feel as if they have control and power?

It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest job. The so called “luxurious” prostitutes is a way to make prostitution less dirty. But in reality there are no “luxurious” prostitutes. The prostitutes who call themselves “luxurious” are no better than the “original” prostitutes. They work under the same conditions and they take the same risks.
To trade sex for money is a question about safety and women’s peace. It’s important to punish the culprit.

Why do women become prostitutes?

Some women try to escape from their former life. They might try to run from abuse or poverty. They also do it for quick money for drugs, booze or rent, but the life they’re trying to escape from may be the better life. They are running to a life to be utilized and abused from someone else’s husband and father.
The men often abuse them, physicaly or psychicaly and the men often want the prostitutes to do strange things with them.
The prostitutes often feel like they aren’t appreciated by society or by someone who’s not involved in what they’re doing.
In Sweden, where prostitution isn’t legal, the police are involved very much to take care of prostitutes; trying to get them off the streets and to get on to those who buy sex.

Prostitution – legal or not?

In Sweden prostitution has been illegal since 1999. The authority wants the society equal and they draw the line between prostitution and women abuse, they think they’re alike. It is legal to sell sex, but not to buy it.
For some prostitutes in Sweden this new law has been bad. The ordinary day gets harder to live through and it has been dangerous for the prostitutes. The price for a prostitute has shrunk because it has been illegal.

Cambodia

In Cambodia there is a special village that’s full of brothels and they sell children for sexual actions as if the children are some kind of export. The people who sell the children are mostly their own parents and they sell them to different pimps.
When you get there you don’t have a clue of what is going on. It looks like a normal village, but under the surface there is a horrible secret. Cambodia has become a free zone for children prostitutes and a place to buy people. The children who come to Cambodia are from Thailand and the Philippines. Some say that children prostitution is a poverty problem because they come from poor families. When they come to Cambodia they promise them a job so they can earn money for their poor families, but instead they become prostitutes and get sold to older men. They can have up to ten costumers in one day and most of them without condoms. The price for a little girl can be up to 150 dollars, and that’s much money for a poor family. Cambodia has many people with HIV so they search for younger girls that don’t have the decease. The girls don’t know where they are or how to get home.
The prostitution is controlled by high policemen and military officers. There was a police razzia in one of the brothel villages, 37 girls were rescued and the youngest was only five years old. They also arrested 13 person smuggling people and they can get sued because they have brought the children to the brothels.

I think that prostitution is wrong and it should be illegal to sell your body for different needs for example addiction. I don’t want my becoming husband to buy a prostitute. I think that they cause unfaithfulness and I also think that someone should help the women who are caught in it. To get them roof over their heads and detoxification for those who are addicted to drugs and booze. The world would be a better place without unfaithfulness, drugs and criminality.