Prostitution in Countries?
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ShannonCT
Deity
Prostitution is pretty common in Turkey and UAE.
De Lorimier
North American Scum
I don't have any proof to offer you, but yes, there's people selling their body for money all over the globe.
colontos
King
There is and always has been prostitution everywhere. There was a good amount of it in the USSR.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
I would imagine fear of being executed for it makes it more exciting.
skadistic
Caomhanach
Whoring know no boundries.
By definition, prostitution is paid.
Prostitution was not illegal in the Soviet Union, but it was not legal either; the CPSU simply denied (up until the late 1980s) that there was prostitution in the country, and even then they said it was a byproduct of inviting Westerners to the country.
However, Moscow's police department had compiled a list of 3,500 prostitutes working in Moscow alone. Prostitutes were sometimes solicited by the KGB in order to collect information on foreign visitors, and successful prostitutes (those that could speak Western languages, etc.) could earn as much as 40,000 rubles (at that time, equal to $73,000 in 1987 dollars) annually.
Prostitutes that served Soviet citizens and foreign students often were paid far less, sometimes as little as $.40 for sexual services. All else I know is that Soviet prostitutes in the fifties were sometimes sent to hard labor camps, despite having committed no "crime" as designated by Soviet law.
Additional information is almost impossible to find on Soviet prostitution.
However, Moscow's police department had compiled a list of 3,500 prostitutes working in Moscow alone. Prostitutes were sometimes solicited by the KGB in order to collect information on foreign visitors, and successful prostitutes (those that could speak Western languages, etc.) could earn as much as 40,000 rubles (at that time, equal to $73,000 in 1987 dollars) annually.
Prostitutes that served Soviet citizens and foreign students often were paid far less, sometimes as little as $.40 for sexual services. All else I know is that Soviet prostitutes in the fifties were sometimes sent to hard labor camps, despite having committed no "crime" as designated by Soviet law.
Additional information is almost impossible to find on Soviet prostitution.
knigh+
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A lot of women used to come from USSR to Turkey to prostitute. Some still do. Because of this, any tall beautiful female tourist visiting NorthEastern Turkey may be mistaken for a prostitute by the locals. But this is decreasing, as Russians are coming as tourists a lot more than prostitutes lately.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Sweden banned the purchase of sexual services some years ago. Needless to say, prostitution still exists.
Eukaryote
Deity
I used to be agansit prostitution because I belived that sex should be mutual and uncommercialized. Then I relized it wasn't my place to tell people they can't do that, so now I don't care.
Panda
Metal head
IIRC, in Turkey prostitution is actually controlled by the state.
In Finland, prostitution is currently legal, even though ********s tried last year to pass a bill that would have criminalized the purchase (but not teh selling) of sexual services.
In Finland, prostitution is currently legal, even though ********s tried last year to pass a bill that would have criminalized the purchase (but not teh selling) of sexual services.
knigh+
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Only by some municipalities, but not the state, as far as I know. And the number of such municipalities is decreasing, probably because it doesn't completely solve anything: people still prostitute illegally even in these municipalities.
I can see the logic of it, since prostitution is bound to happen, it is better to give license to some and keep them under regular STD monitoring makes sense. Because people will do it even when it is completely banned. Lesser of two evils kind of stuff.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
The problem with that logic is that the state will inevitably set the standards for safety and working conditions so high that there still will be an illegal market.
Gr3yL3gion
Voice of Madness
Yes, illegally.
Drewcifer
Agent of Karma
Although prostitution is illegal in most of the US the enforcement of the law varies a lot from place to place.
When I lived in upstate NY I never saw any overt signs of prostitution. On the other hand until the mid 90s there were dozens of obvious storefront brothels in Minneapolis/St Paul and the backs of the weekly newspapers are still full of advertisements for prostitutes.
When I lived in upstate NY I never saw any overt signs of prostitution. On the other hand until the mid 90s there were dozens of obvious storefront brothels in Minneapolis/St Paul and the backs of the weekly newspapers are still full of advertisements for prostitutes.
You can't enforce laws against prostitution, it'd just takes up a vast amount of police time, and the idea that a woman may invite a man into her home to have sex and he might voluntarily give her some cash makes it beyond the reach of the law.
In this country it's only illegal to kerb crawl, or walk the streets, and even then prostitutes are rarely charged, it's a waste of police time and something that would just clog up the system, most times they'll get a slap on the rist and a night in the cells, maybe some arbitrary fine. Police though do persecute pimps, oraganised crime gangs that pray on vulnerable women, keep them hooked on drugs etc, etc.
In this country it's only illegal to kerb crawl, or walk the streets, and even then prostitutes are rarely charged, it's a waste of police time and something that would just clog up the system, most times they'll get a slap on the rist and a night in the cells, maybe some arbitrary fine. Police though do persecute pimps, oraganised crime gangs that pray on vulnerable women, keep them hooked on drugs etc, etc.
