Gender and Sex Readings blog #10

       I read “ Prostitution a worldwide business of sexual exploitation” by Melissa Farley.

She gives a fews examples of prostitution in the world. And why those women became a prostitute based on the social aspect of each countries.Moreover, the issues of being prostitute and abusing child as a prostitution.The file of this article that our professor attached couldn't open it, so I googled it. Therefore, I didn't know how long I should read this article because this article is very long one. So I picked some points that this article mentions. This article was very interesting. This article says that majority of the world's prostituted women, prostitution is the experience of being hunted, dominated, harassed , assaulted , and battered. Moreover, prostitution are numerous violations of human rights. Sexual harassment, economic servitude, educational deprivation, job discrimination, domestic violence, racism, classism, and physical and sexual assault. My country has also prostitution business that women use their body to earn money, This is very controversial issue now in Japan so the government make more strict law to regulate these business. The reasons that women become a prostitute are not only one, but many based on their life. As this article give a example of prostituted woman, the woman think of this business as a volunteer. Some women do because they have to. Even children do to earn big money. I watched a documentary movie of prostitution in Japan, there is a girl who is only 18 year old works as a prostitute. The reason that she does is to get a money easily. She had been a prostitute for 3 years. The consequence of her behavior was infected with HIV. She regretted what she did but it was too late. Other case of prostitution was a woman who was 25. She was a business woman, but she was also a prostitute at the time. The reason was to pay off the debts which her father made due to the bankruptcy. I was thinking that women has been insisting feminism that women's right and equal from long time way back till now, but what they are doing is to put women's position lower than men. This is very ironic. But if there is a demand , these businesses are not going to disappear.That's because prostitution is a big market in the world.