Prostitution

Is it bad?

I have read an article in the Observer from someone in the know and it seems that the majority of people who are into prostitution are doing it for the money!

No tax or NI to pay and £500 a night, not something to sniff at if you are into that sort of thing. But, Morally is it right?

We are normally brought up into the world believing that sex is to be partaken in with someone who you think/know you love. Okay reality bites, and the sex is the fun bit we do and the relationship will probably follow after!!

Now imagine having sex several times a day/night for money, no emotional ties just raw sex. Now I know I could not do that, even for the sake of my son, I could not violate my spiritual self to that.

So why can these other men and women liberate themselves enough to sell themselves? Is it morally bad? Is it wrong for us to be judgmental?

Is pornography a form of prostitution? At the end of the day they are paid to strip and have sex, unemotionally (you can tell from the expression on their faces!) for a pay cheque at the end of it, porn could be worse as they are making a film for the worlds over 18's to watch!!

As a body conscious over 30 there is no way on earth I would strip in front of my mates never mind the world!

So why do they do it? There really is not one answer to that as each person is doing it for different reasons, but the general consensus is that they do not want protitution legalised.

The article from the observer makes for some good reading: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1306267,00.html

An extremely good article which brings to attention the slave trafficking of foreign women who are sold for prostitution, obviously these women are not participating of their own free will. This is an area that hopefully standards in police forces etc can try and stop one day?! http://www.prostitutionreform.co.uk/

An interesting read from Germany about job seekers have to seriously consider working in a legalised 'bar' or risk losing their unemployment benefit!!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml

Then there is the sinister dark side to prostitution, the child side, the ugly black world that no upstanding citizen should even consider: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/30/burma.international