A small vocabulary for you!

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.

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.

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.).

8. In Sweden, Norway, and Iceland selling sex is legal, but buying sex is illegal.

9. In Japan prostitution is illegal, but selling non-coital sex acts is legal.

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.

Taken from: http://prostitution.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=000116

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