Well, my friends, if you want to become real experts of prostitution as a phenomernon, you should know their vocabulary at least! If you do not know their language, it will be difficult for you to understand them! But if you know some more interesting terms, you are welcome to add them here!
Actually, this vocabulary is bigger than I expected but I decided to choose the most interesting words for you! If you want to see the whole list you can find it here:
http://prostitution.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=000124
So, here we go!
Bordello
A house appropriated to the purposes of prostitution.
Cat House
A house appropriated to the purposes of prostitution.
Courtesan
A prostitute with courtly, wealthy, or upper-class clientele.
Felony
A crime sufficiently serious to be punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison, as distinguished from a misdemeanor.
Harlot
A prostitute. One who engages in sexual intercourse or performs other sex acts in exchange for payment
John
A prostitute's client.
Pimp
A person, usually a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, in return for a share of the earnings.
Street Walker
A prostitute who solicits in the streets.
Transactional Sex
The giving of gifts or services in return for sex. Those who receive the gifts generally have other sources of incomes.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Did You Know?
Little Known Facts in the Prostitution Debate
1. Prostitution dates back to at least 2400 B.C. when it appeared on an ancient Sumerian list of professions along with doctor, scribe, barber and cook. Although very old, prostitution is not literally considered to be the "world's oldest profession."
2. Prostitution is illegal in the United States except in 11 rural counties in Nevada.
3. Indoor prostitution became legal in Rhode Island in 1980 due to an unintentional legal loophole created by legislators. The state enacted new legislation nearly thirty years later to close the loophole on Nov. 3, 2009.
3. Indoor prostitution became legal in Rhode Island in 1980 due to an unintentional legal loophole created by legislators. The state enacted new legislation nearly thirty years later to close the loophole on Nov. 3, 2009.
4. On Nov. 2, 2004 two prostitution referendums went to the voters in the United States with 63.51% of voters in Berkeley, California wanting to keep prostitution a crime and 62.78% of voters in Churchill County, Nevada wanting to keep prostitution legal.
5. The same brothel in Nevada could cost an owner a $200 fee in Lander County, a $150,000 fee in Nye County, and up to 6 months in jail and/or $1,000 fine in Las Vegas.
6.In 1751, Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa banned short dresses and replaced waitresses with waiters to suppress prostitution.
7.Researchers have identified at least 25 types of prostitution by location (street, brothel, etc.), solicitation (CB radio, newspaper ad, etc.) and and/or sexual practice (bondage, lap dance, etc.).
10. Prostitution is criminalized, legalized, and decriminalized in Australia depending on the state.
11. In 2004 the number of US prostitution-related arrests ranged from California's 14,506 to Vermont's three.
12. Proponents of legal prostitution have included Ann Landers, the ACLU, and The Economist while opponents have included Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Susan B. Anthony.
13. Medieval canon lawyer Johannes Teutonicus, when defining prostitution, suggested that a woman who had sex with more than 23,000 men should be classified as a prostitute, although 40 to 60 would also do.
14. An estimated 1% of American women, or over one million people in the United States, have worked as prostitutes.
15. A sex laws chart from 1996 lists, for example, nine states and the District of Columbia as prohibiting fornication (sex outside of marriage), and fourteen states as prohibiting hetero oral sex.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution (c)
My friends!
I will be honest with you. This is not be or any other man who found so many reason for not legalizing prostitution. Certainly, it was the woman! And not only a woman but Janice G. Raymond who is the member of CATW (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International). I found this article on the Internet (frankly speaking, it was not very difficult to find, you can easily find it by yourself if you are very interested in this question). This article is not very new (it was written in 2003.... Gosh, time goes so quickly!!!). And frankly speaking, it would be very interesting for me to know whether Janice has changed her mind after 6 years. Well, enough to speak! Here they are: 10 reasons to prohibit the prostitution:
1. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution is a gift to pimps, traffickers and the sex industry.
2. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution and the sex industry promotes sex trafficking.
3. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not control the sex industry.It expands it.
4. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases clandestine, hidden, illegal and street prostitution.
5. Legalization of prostitution and decriminalization of the sex Industry increases child prostitution.
6.Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not protect the women in prostitution.
7.Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases the demand for prostitution. It boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider and more permissible range of socially acceptable settings.
8. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not promote women's health.
9. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not enhance women's choice.
10.Women in systems of Prostitution do not want the sex industry legalized or decriminalized.
Here is he link where you can real all arguments as for this problem.
http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_legalizing.html
I will be honest with you. This is not be or any other man who found so many reason for not legalizing prostitution. Certainly, it was the woman! And not only a woman but Janice G. Raymond who is the member of CATW (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International). I found this article on the Internet (frankly speaking, it was not very difficult to find, you can easily find it by yourself if you are very interested in this question). This article is not very new (it was written in 2003.... Gosh, time goes so quickly!!!). And frankly speaking, it would be very interesting for me to know whether Janice has changed her mind after 6 years. Well, enough to speak! Here they are: 10 reasons to prohibit the prostitution:
1. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution is a gift to pimps, traffickers and the sex industry.
2. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution and the sex industry promotes sex trafficking.
3. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not control the sex industry.It expands it.
4. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases clandestine, hidden, illegal and street prostitution.
5. Legalization of prostitution and decriminalization of the sex Industry increases child prostitution.
6.Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not protect the women in prostitution.
7.Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases the demand for prostitution. It boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider and more permissible range of socially acceptable settings.
8. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not promote women's health.
9. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not enhance women's choice.
10.Women in systems of Prostitution do not want the sex industry legalized or decriminalized.
Here is he link where you can real all arguments as for this problem.
http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_legalizing.html
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Prostitution Art!
Have you ever thought that prostitution can has its own art? The imagination of artists is vey rich! Just look at this pictures! All of them are devoted to prostitution and describes it in different ways!
1. "The Buyers"
2005Myrna Balk33 x56 collage on packing paper.
Myrna Balk has used her art to call attention to issues related to women and girls. The world wide sex industry is sustained by the consumer ( or Buyer )of sexual exploitation.
2. "Skirt of Sacrifice"
2000 Pastel
By Autumn Burris
This work depicts the soul tax that prostitution is.
3.Istanbul, Turkey
Copyright © 2004 Mimi Chakarova
Documentary photographer Mimi Chakarova gained entry to an illegal brothel in Istanbul. She managed to photograph a 52 year-old john grabbing a girl who had been trafficked from Eastern Europe.The entitlement in this john's gesture speaks a thousand words about male supremacy and prostitution.
4. "Husk"
by Christine Stark,1999. Pastel.
This is a man's face over a prostituted woman, from her perspective.
5. What it felt like to be a 12-year old whore
Copyright © 2005 by Christine Stark. All Rights Reserved
6. Three Women in Mexico City Prostitution
Copyright © Melissa Farley 2000. All Rights Reserved.
How do you like that?
1. "The Buyers"
2005Myrna Balk33 x56 collage on packing paper.
Myrna Balk has used her art to call attention to issues related to women and girls. The world wide sex industry is sustained by the consumer ( or Buyer )of sexual exploitation.
2. "Skirt of Sacrifice"
2000 Pastel
By Autumn Burris
This work depicts the soul tax that prostitution is.
3.Istanbul, Turkey
Copyright © 2004 Mimi Chakarova
Documentary photographer Mimi Chakarova gained entry to an illegal brothel in Istanbul. She managed to photograph a 52 year-old john grabbing a girl who had been trafficked from Eastern Europe.The entitlement in this john's gesture speaks a thousand words about male supremacy and prostitution.
4. "Husk"
by Christine Stark,1999. Pastel.
This is a man's face over a prostituted woman, from her perspective.
5. What it felt like to be a 12-year old whore
Copyright © 2005 by Christine Stark. All Rights Reserved
6. Three Women in Mexico City Prostitution
Copyright © Melissa Farley 2000. All Rights Reserved.
How do you like that?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The questions you always wanted to ask.
Please welcome: some of FAQ about such a phenomenon as prostitution. I know this topic is not a new one and you are probably great experts already but I write this blog because some facts were completely new for me! Wow! It appeared to be that i did not know much about such a "profession".
So:
Q. Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession and will always exist.
A. Prostitution is not the oldest profession, slave trading is, men selling or trading female bodies amongst each other for profit. Saying prostitution is the oldest profession makes it sound like women. the prostitutes, have always been the cunning and seductive initiators wielding their mighty sexual power over defenseless men like powerful vampiresses of the night. That's the misogynist lie men have always wanted promoted because it absolves them of responsibility for what they do to children and women and makes them look like the victims of women’s seductive wiles.
Q. But you agree porn and stripping aren’t prostitution, right?
A. Of course they are. If getting paid to perform sex acts is prostitution, using a camera to record people getting paid to perform sex acts is recording prostitution. It is comforting for people to call porn performers ‘porn actresses’ to distance themselves emotionally from the truth that they pay a third party for recording of prostitutes being prostituted, but porn actresses have a lot more in common with other prostitutes than with other actresses, such as poverty, a history of child sex abuse and drug addictions.
Q. Men prostitute too so it’s not just about women
A. Prisons develop systems of prostitution (not surprising since prostitution is big $$$ among gang members not in jail), and there is a specific loss of power, prestige, self-determination and spirit among men who are pimped and tricked. Men who get fucked are treated much differently than men who do the fucking, and no one is treated better than the pimp.
Want to read more? Go there: http://www.genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=FAQ&myfaq=yes&id_cat=2&categories=Prostitution+FAQf
So:
Q. Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession and will always exist.
A. Prostitution is not the oldest profession, slave trading is, men selling or trading female bodies amongst each other for profit. Saying prostitution is the oldest profession makes it sound like women. the prostitutes, have always been the cunning and seductive initiators wielding their mighty sexual power over defenseless men like powerful vampiresses of the night. That's the misogynist lie men have always wanted promoted because it absolves them of responsibility for what they do to children and women and makes them look like the victims of women’s seductive wiles.
Q. But you agree porn and stripping aren’t prostitution, right?
A. Of course they are. If getting paid to perform sex acts is prostitution, using a camera to record people getting paid to perform sex acts is recording prostitution. It is comforting for people to call porn performers ‘porn actresses’ to distance themselves emotionally from the truth that they pay a third party for recording of prostitutes being prostituted, but porn actresses have a lot more in common with other prostitutes than with other actresses, such as poverty, a history of child sex abuse and drug addictions.
Q. Men prostitute too so it’s not just about women
A. Prisons develop systems of prostitution (not surprising since prostitution is big $$$ among gang members not in jail), and there is a specific loss of power, prestige, self-determination and spirit among men who are pimped and tricked. Men who get fucked are treated much differently than men who do the fucking, and no one is treated better than the pimp.
Want to read more? Go there: http://www.genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=FAQ&myfaq=yes&id_cat=2&categories=Prostitution+FAQf
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Prostitutes cure impotence!
While in Europe wives make scandals because of their husbands’ unfaithfulness, in China these wives bring their husbands to prostitutes themselves.
Treatment of prostitutes is a longstanding means of restoring the lost potency. "A month of love in the bed with the daughter of the Dragon restores a fertility effect, making a man stronger and healthier" - Chinese people say from ancient times. Treatment prostitutes, or as they are called, the daughters of the Dragon, appeared in the Empire a long time ago: in the 10th century AD. One of these sexual fairies cured the Emperor from infertility.
The grateful emperor ordered the construction of a school for such girls, and "teach this necessary and useful craft every decent woman for them to care about the health and rebirth of a great nation”. Ever since the medical profession of prostitution is thriving for the joy of men and women: men get sexual pleasure and health and the prostitutes themselves - a lot of money and respect from a grateful community.
So? Let's go to China? Lol! What do you think?
Treatment of prostitutes is a longstanding means of restoring the lost potency. "A month of love in the bed with the daughter of the Dragon restores a fertility effect, making a man stronger and healthier" - Chinese people say from ancient times. Treatment prostitutes, or as they are called, the daughters of the Dragon, appeared in the Empire a long time ago: in the 10th century AD. One of these sexual fairies cured the Emperor from infertility.
The grateful emperor ordered the construction of a school for such girls, and "teach this necessary and useful craft every decent woman for them to care about the health and rebirth of a great nation”. Ever since the medical profession of prostitution is thriving for the joy of men and women: men get sexual pleasure and health and the prostitutes themselves - a lot of money and respect from a grateful community.
So? Let's go to China? Lol! What do you think?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Prostitutes become writers!
The well-paid Italian prostitute Patrizia D'Addario decided to write an autobiography in which she tells about her relationship with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.D'Addario says that she plans to publish her autobiography in London. The book will be written in English. Before flying to London, D'Addario arranged a promotional party at one Paris nightclub. There 42-year-old D'Addario stated that the 72-year-old Italian prime minister tried to use her services several times after she visited two parties at his house in Rome. According to the woman’s words, Berlusconi summoned her to his villa in Sardinia, his home in Milan and spa resort. "When you are invited to such a place for few days, certainly you will not be there to play cards and talk about politics" - D'Addario said. She added that she declined the invitation of Berlusconi because she was disappointed by his behavior.
Well, my friends, maybe this news is not the newest one but I did not have a goal to let you know about this fact itself. My statement is the following: it seems to me that sometimes it is even good to be a prostitute. You know, this prostitute, D’Addario, is 42 already. Her book will probably be a bestseller, at least in Italy. Lol! If you are lucky with ‘a client” then you can finally finish your “career”. So, dear prostitutes, don’t miss your chance. Start writing your biographies! Maybe someone will read your books – today everyone writes. You will definitely become well-known writers and get the Nobel!
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