Regulating Prostitution
Internet Journal of Criminology © 2013
ISSN 2045-6743 (Online)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REGULATING
PROSTITUTION
By Nazmina Begum1
Abstract
This dissertation will focus on the significance of regulating prostitution. The UK Government currently regulates prostitution because the conduct attracts many problems such as drug use, violence, public nuisance, organised crimes, human trafficking, child prostitution, and exploitation.
However, these problems are still present in the UK. Thus, there have been suggestions that perhaps the UK should take a different approach to prostitution to tackle these problems more effectively. This dissertation will aim to formulate a framework for the UK Government that will best tackle these
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A patriarchal society is a society dominated by men in the sense that men possess the economic and legal power.3 In a patriarchal society, women were treated as men’s property. 4 Thus, men believed they had a right to sex from women and so demanded prostitution. 5 Nonetheless, women met this male demand as they often chose to engage in prostitution. However, this was due to a lack of alternative employment and financial resources available for women in such a society. Also, instability such as homelessness and poverty drove women to prostitution6 whilst some were forced into prostitution against their own will and used as money making sex tools.7 Overall, there is this notion of prostitution as sex-work and prostitution as sexual slavery, which will be raised throughout this discussion. However, historical evidence shows that prostitution is not just a trade between sex and money; prostitution causes disruption in society as it attracts vile acts such as drug use, organised crime exploitation, violence such as rape and murder, 8 and human trafficking. 9 Furthermore, prostitution has led to the transmission of venereal diseases amongst the nation.10 This chapter …show more content…
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Raymond Guess (ed), John Locke (1634–1704): Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge University Press)
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Internet Journal of Criminology © 2013
ISSN 2045-6743 (Online)
Law and morality
The question now is how should the State shape law and order? Philosophers such as Phil Harris stress that the State should govern society to reflect moral values. 72 Morality is “concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong”.73 The debate over the relationship of law and morality was brought to the fore in the famous Hart/Devlin debate. This debate followed the publication of the Wolfenden report in 1957, The Report of the Committee
ISSN 2045-6743 (Online)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REGULATING
PROSTITUTION
By Nazmina Begum1
Abstract
This dissertation will focus on the significance of regulating prostitution. The UK Government currently regulates prostitution because the conduct attracts many problems such as drug use, violence, public nuisance, organised crimes, human trafficking, child prostitution, and exploitation.
However, these problems are still present in the UK. Thus, there have been suggestions that perhaps the UK should take a different approach to prostitution to tackle these problems more effectively. This dissertation will aim to formulate a framework for the UK Government that will best tackle these
drastic …show more content…
A patriarchal society is a society dominated by men in the sense that men possess the economic and legal power.3 In a patriarchal society, women were treated as men’s property. 4 Thus, men believed they had a right to sex from women and so demanded prostitution. 5 Nonetheless, women met this male demand as they often chose to engage in prostitution. However, this was due to a lack of alternative employment and financial resources available for women in such a society. Also, instability such as homelessness and poverty drove women to prostitution6 whilst some were forced into prostitution against their own will and used as money making sex tools.7 Overall, there is this notion of prostitution as sex-work and prostitution as sexual slavery, which will be raised throughout this discussion. However, historical evidence shows that prostitution is not just a trade between sex and money; prostitution causes disruption in society as it attracts vile acts such as drug use, organised crime exploitation, violence such as rape and murder, 8 and human trafficking. 9 Furthermore, prostitution has led to the transmission of venereal diseases amongst the nation.10 This chapter …show more content…
27, no. 2 pp 225-245
70
Raymond Guess (ed), John Locke (1634–1704): Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge University Press)
www.internetjournalofcriminology.com
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Internet Journal of Criminology © 2013
ISSN 2045-6743 (Online)
Law and morality
The question now is how should the State shape law and order? Philosophers such as Phil Harris stress that the State should govern society to reflect moral values. 72 Morality is “concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong”.73 The debate over the relationship of law and morality was brought to the fore in the famous Hart/Devlin debate. This debate followed the publication of the Wolfenden report in 1957, The Report of the Committee