World Prostitution
Prostitution has often been called the “world’s oldest profession”. This is the practice of providing sexual services in return for payment. World prostitution varies from country to country. Legal status of world prostitution also varies.
While brothels are commonly the hubs of world prostitution, it can also take place in a hotel room or residence if it is conducted by an escort. One fallout of world prostitution is the many terms that have now sprung up to describe a prostitute-from commercial sex worker (CSW) to sex trade worker to streetwalker and even tantric engineer (created by the author Robert Wilson). World prostitution does not limit itself to women alone. Males offering their services to female customers are called gigolos while those offering their services to male customers are called hustlers.
World prostitution has occurred throughout history, through all cultures. An account of world prostitution would be incomplete without mentioning “sacred prostitution”, in which sexual intercourse was performed with religious sanction, for a religious purpose, usually by women who were highly trained in the esoteric arts. In ancient India, they were the devadasis, in ancient Egypt, the temple priestesses, and it was also practiced by the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians.
World prostitution varies greatly in the judicial laws of various countries, from complete legal sanction in some countries to even punishment by death in others. In ancient Greece, female prostitutes were influential and even had to pay taxes, so there was an element of legality involved. In ancient Rome, free women who were charged with a criminal offence were often punished legally by being enslaved into prostitution. Many countries have legalized prostitution by earmarking certain districts or areas outside a city or town for such activities, like in France, Germany, and Southern Europe, and the US.
One of the terrible chapters in world prostitution must have been the tradition of “comfort women”, in Asia, wherein women of an occupied or captured territory were forced to work as prostitutes for the soldiers of the triumphant invading army, like Japanese-occupied China and Korea in World War II.
Article by Karishma J.Anand
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