Can I see any evidence of this at all? Who says so? Where?
Try here for starters:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/belle-de-jour-on-science-and-prostitution.php
Can I see any evidence of this at all? Who says so? Where?
LONDON: An increasing number of female students in the uk are resorting to prostitution or other jobs in the sex industry to pay rising
university tuition fees, a study claimed on Sunday.
Research by Kingston University in southwest london suggested that there has been a 50% rise in numbers over the past six years in such cases.
In a survey that asked 130 students whether they knew any friends involved in the sex industry, one in 10 said they knew of students who had stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves. Over 6% said they knew students who worked as prostitutes, the Sunday Times said, quoting the survey.
The academics found that alcohol and mental problems led some women into stripping and lap-dancing. But those resorting to prostitution were simply working to earn money, it said. University tuition fees, first introduced in 1998 at £1,000 a year, have risen to £3,000 pounds this year.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2121714.cms
Research by Kingston University in southwest London found that one in 10 students had friends who had stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves.
President of the Union of Students (USI), Richie Morrisroe, said it was "not surprising" that people felt they had to turn to prostitution given the shortfall in financial support available to students.
"It really is shocking. It's really sad that people are turning to prostitution," said Mr Morrisroe.
"It's definitely a concern. But I can understand why people feel they have to turn to something like this. It is extremely expensive to manage all of the expenses that come with going to college," he said.
The prostitution aid and lobby group, Ruhama, said it was seriously "seriously concerned" that anyone would consider prostitution as an "easy option" to meet any financial commitments.
"When entering prostitution, you are entering an environment which is extremely harmful and dangerous to women", said Ms Geraldine Rowley, head of the group.
http://www.independent.ie/national-...-prostitution-to-pay-for-college-1082362.html
How is a single person "they"?
How about this instead?
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"It's definitely a concern. But I can understand why people feel they have to turn to something like this. It is extremely expensive to manage all of the expenses that come with going to college," he said.
The prostitution aid and lobby group, Ruhama, said it was seriously "seriously concerned" that anyone would consider prostitution as an "easy option" to meet any financial commitments.
"When entering prostitution, you are entering an environment which is extremely harmful and dangerous to women", said Ms Geraldine Rowley, head of the group.
Do you think these organisations are deluded for being concerned?
Eighty-nine male and female undergraduates completed the Attitudes toward Feminism Scale and the author-devised Attitudes Toward Prostitution Scale, which contained five factors. Profeminist attitudes were related to three out of five factors. Respondents scoring in a profeminist direction were more likely to view prostitution as reflecting exploitation and subordination of women, less likely to believe women become prostitutes out of economic necessity, and less likely to approve of decriminalization and legalization of prostitution. Gender differences also appeared that were not explained by differences in profeminist attitudes: women were more likely than men to disagree with decriminalization and legalization efforts and were more likely to view prostitution as reflecting exploitation and subordination.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120000135/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Here is an interesting study [snip]
Perhaps men are more likely to favour decriminalising prostitution. Not surprising.
What's the fundamental difference between paying a plumber and paying a sex worker?
The same one between giving a kid a lollipop and a dick to put in his mouth.
You still haven't grasped the point I explained to you before. The child you mention here cannot consent to having a dick in his mouth. An adult sex worker can. It's a simple enough point.
Child prostitution is illegal for a reason..at least in Europe. So, I wonder why do people here always drag children into this topic?
most would consider child prostitution as immoral even if it weren't illegal.
Not the ones who practise it, though. Its like Mike Tyson said to Desiree after he raped her, do you love me now?
Apparently the victims are always asking for it, consenting to it and deserving it.
But those are individual cases. If the majority would agree with such behaviour then it would have become the norm long ago, but it didn't.