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María Fernanda Arellano Garfias A00512787
Cynthia Rodríguez Portilla A01330195
Adriana Jacqueline Armas Barrera A01331736
Sebastián Guevara C. A01214789
Fernanda Flores Weimersheimer A01214949
Raquel Venado Bolaños A01215103
Daniela Sánchez Chowell A01215789
Global Contemporary Agenda
Octavio Daniel Benítez Franco
Group: 4
30th, March, 2012
Justification
Having information about a social problem that involves to the poor sector specific
sector in society is necessary to carry out an effective action plan to reduce the
risks in the growth of this phenomenon. In this case, the team has decided to
collect the necessary information from the impact to analyzed it in the social,
cultural, political and economic aspect, of the prostitution in Mexico and the world.
There are many reasons why we have chosen this research theme. The
first one is based on the economic aspect. While we know that prostitution is an
occupation given mainly to women we did not know how this action affects the
economic flow into the global economy. To sell "services" of a woman or even men
does not provides job to others; also we are interested about which are the social
causes that produce that the people take this job, and how, talking about the health

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aspect, they have to face with the AIDS and the unwanted pregnancies. In the
other hand, to structure a plan of action against prostitution is important to know
those causes. We believe that they have an intimate relation with social interaction.
It is our understanding that despite being in the 21st century, oppression,
discrimination and women trafficking still remain.
Now, if this social phenomenon is linked to our time, are there policies
to control it? We believe that it is of great importance to know every aspect that
involves the prostitution because it will help to find where the problem starts,
therefore is necessary to look at the political level which kind of information do they
have. The problem is big but, any kind of laws has been devised to regulate it. It is
illegal and governmental leaders have ignored it.
Finally, the above reasons can be seen reflected in a broader sector,
culture. Prostitution is an important factor and it affects directly in our culture and, it
has a lengthy impact. Prostitution, in the world is a subject that is little truly known
and civil society has many theories about this; however there is no abroad and
accurate knowledge about it.
Prostitution
Prostitution is an activity base in the exchange of sex for money or some other
material good, without involve any feeling or emotion with the client. It has growth,
with the pass of the years, in whole world, especially in countries where poverty is
his main factor to look for easy money. When we talk about easy money, we are
making reference to get money in a short period of time and instantly.
Prostitution is an illegal activity in countries like Mexico, Unites States,
China, South and North Korea, Philippines and others, in some of them with death
penalty as in Muslims countries, but there more and more sex worker that it is
seen as a regular job, because it can be find in each part of the world. By the

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other hand countries like Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Australia has became
prostitution a legal work, but they call it a “control prostitution” where the people
that are penalized are the ones who buy the services, or where the sexual workers
must pay taxes as any other job and can defend their human rights as anyone else
if someone is not respecting them.
Authors as Guisseppe de Rosa define prostitution as the denial of the
human person, reduced to an object of pleasure and the man/women can vent his/
her evil instincts and cruel and shameful desires. The consumer goes looking for
prostitutes like away to satisfied primitive human necessities.
Prostitution has other activities that are related with it; first is the human
trafficking, the other the pornography, and finally the prostitution by choice. The
last one has had a lot controversy because some critics, psychologists, and other
specialists, as Richard Poilin, have ensured that prostitution is not an election,
because back of it exist many factors that induced the decision, the first one the
necessity to survive, and the second one, and that is proved by statistics that
show us that people that suffered child abuse has more probability to developed
promiscuity being adults, because, approximately, 30% percent of the victims of
child abuse don´t reveal the experience, until they experiment strange conducts.
This activity is seeing like the new slavery; now they are slavers not only
of the buyers, but also of his social context. This slavery of the social context is
base in “the lack of affection, professional development, economic stability, health,
and cultural and social education, that help to perpetuate the conditions of social
exclusion, making it impossible in many instances the abandonment of the activity
of prostitution” Association for the prevention, rehabilitation, and care of prostitute
women (APRAMP) (Translated to English); it means that we became slavers of
our environment when we cannot control it, for example when the people born in
poverty conditions, or when some familiar abuse of him/her, and don´t have the
preparation to fin a good job that help them to, at least, have something to eat

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every day.
Most of the people, engaged in the prostitution, are young and marginalized;
as was mentioned before, the abuse and the necessities are the principal factors
about why this child are involve in this activity. Also the prostitution is increasing
because of the increasing of the consumers that prefer young people, because
of the idea that they have fewer probabilities to have sexual transmitted diseases
(Buscarons Edis, catedradh.unesco.unam.mx)
This practice has developed a high range of diseases and unwanted
pregnancy; the sexually transmitted diseases are a constant danger that threat to
the prostitutes when the clients don’t want to use any kind of contraceptive method,
so is difficult to know if the person is infected to any STD. ”Offer sex without
using condoms, a practice that often require many costumers, is becoming almost
routine among some of the young prostitutes, especially among those from the
Eastern (Asia) countries. It´s a way to increase the profits…” (sinsida.com)
Before the last decades, the women and child were in majority the part of
the society where the prostitution was concentrated, but now the men are also
practicing it, for example the transvestites and transsexuals.
Migration has been a factor in the globalization of the prostitution. People
with the idea of finding a job and better opportunities decided to migrate to the
big cities, but when they can’t reach their targets, people find prostitution like the
last alternative. “Globalization with the transfer of capital and job opportunities
from one country to another according to economic and financial conveniences
produced that the prostitution tends to increase causing the abandonment of
countryside and move to the cities” (Giuseppe). Also, based in this analysis, the
result of percentages, in the respective countries, has showed that the practice of
prostitution is realized, in more quantity, by foreigners.

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Prostitution has been tried to legalized; in some countries like Germany
and Holland is already done. This law has defended the idea that the people have
the liberty to do with their body whatever they want. On other hand it has tried
to defend the rights of the prostitutes seeking to respect their dignity and their
capacity to choose their retailers, also asking the catch trafficking.
With the growth of prostitution, this activity has concentrated in many
aspects of the societies. Before it was something clandestine and in many cases
prohibited, now it has became in something else to defend the work for many
people who see it like the denigration of humanity, and for those people that think
that the sexual workers don´t have the right to ask respect. Social, economic,
culture, and politic factors are related with this phenomenon, because each one
contributes or is affected by the consequences that it provokes.
Today, prostitution is illegal in many countries and is related to other forms
of crime. Many women and children are forced to perform these services by
individuals or organized gangs.
There are several aspects where we can observe this phenomenon: Health,
Education, and Social Legality.
Since prostitutes and prostitutes routinely maintain relationships with a
large number of customers, prostitution is associated with the spread of sexually
transmitted diseases. Among these, AIDS is now a greater risk.
The answers to this problem can be either definitely trying to ban prostitution, or
establish a register of prostitutes and prostitutes aimed to carry out regular medical
checks, or informally to encourage male and female prostitutes and their clients, to
use means protection and medical screenings.
What is really sad is not the act of prostitution, the sad thing is that men
and women have to resort to such acts because of the situation in which we live,
I mean a country where we find opportunities for decent and hundreds of young

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people are in need of using sex to bring home an income.
In our country is not easy to get into universities for much of the population, and
after completion of studies, it is even harder to get a decent job, which leads to a
huge number of young people to engage in prostitution.
Another problem is that young people do not know their own rights while they are
operated by individuals or criminal groups, are ignorant of the damage they can do
to your body and ways to prevent disease.
Prostitution in Mexico dates back to Pre-Hispanic times in Mesoamerica the
Aztecs. Currently such action is considered by the government as illegal.
The penal code of the City in terms of jurisdiction and to Mexico in Article 200
says, "shall apply imprisonment for 6 months to 5 years and a fine of 10,000 pesos
who practice such action"
In Mexico there are 500 thousand people who are exploited in prostitution,
90 percent are women and girls. 80 percent of them were not born in Mexico City
and were taken from somewhere inside the country for prostitution, according to
figures from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America
(CATWLAC, 2010).
Legalizing and regulating this behavior is a correct solution? Is it time to change
our laws to solve a problem? "75 percent of them started in prostitution when
they had just 12 years old and what they want most is to stop this activity, which
represents a form of survival" (CATWLAC, 2010)
Regular prostitution included in the control of sexually transmitted infections,
reducing sexual slavery, controlling where brothels can be located completely
dissociate prostitution and criminal organizations.
Our society is accustomed to this type of service setting out some specific
streets and neighborhoods, but this does not mean that people agree. Several
sectors of society have condemned the proposal to legalize and regulate

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prostitution, because this activity is a social scourge that undermines morality and
decency, and to pretend to justify legalizing it is like a cancer in society, further
degrading the environment in which we live. Another part of society supports the
legalization, arguing that social evil is inevitable.
Until 1994, only 13 states in the Republic regulations were specifically
prohibiting child prostitution, although it is highly immoral activity has increased in
various parts of the country, especially in large cities, beaches and centers tourist.
It is urgent to promote an awareness campaign among the various social
sectors, preferably among young people. In its contents are required to disclose
the serious consequences and health hazards and the degradation of the human
condition that leads to prostitution as a form of illegal and immoral life, and the
incidence of crime involved.
Prostitution is a social problem and serious public health, therefore it must be
approached with seriousness and depth in their causes and also in their effects
and side effects. More than the question of paying taxes, the most important thing
is to control the activity so that people do not continue spreading STDs.
In the economic perspective prostitution has been a very used profession
by the people that lives in puberty because at that age they trust all the people
and they do not think there are bad persons. The economic condition that people
experiment is not the best for their development because they need certain things
they cannot afford. Actually someone who practices this profession do not has the
primary necessities because if they had they would not practices prostitution, so
they look for some job that does not includes academic preparation for succeed in
their lives.
According to Kathleen Peratis, some people choose this “job” because of
their necessities and they are not forced to do this. They are grown-up women or
men that take their own decisions; they have not a position of slaves.

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“Some entered to the prostituion activity as a part of an economic
strategy for supporting themselves and their families, getting by in
lean economic times or realizing other economic goals. Many have
children, partners and parents whom they support through their
work”.(Peratis,200)
We have to take on mind that prostitution is an easy way for some people
because is the only alternative to survive. People use it to get out of their economic
problems, and not only that, their whole family depends on that job. In other cases
they used prostitution to achieve their goals; they use this money to pay his or her
career, car or house.
According to Joe Parker, the prostituion activity look for a kind of "victim
profile," does not want any aggressive and an uncontrollable person. They focus
in young people that are not protected by his or her family, or when the family has
economic problems and they do not have opportunities of education. One form
to "breaking" someone into prostitution is “slave taking”. A young man met a girl or
boy, and they become friends, in that time he has to be sure that he or she is not
dangerous and is not protected by her family. Then he manipulates him or her into a
danger situation, so he can kidnaps him or her. After that situation there is a process
in which the boy or girl is terrorized, tortured and they tell him or her that if they do
not cooperate someone love will be death, Joe Parker wrote in his article.
"I believe that we will never succeed in combating trafficking in women
if we do not simultaneously work to abolish prostitution and the sexual
exploitation of women and children. Particularly in light of the fact that
many women in prostitution in countries that have legalized prostitution
are originally victims of trafficking in women.”(Winberg, 2002)
According to Margareta Winberghthe the only way to end with the trafficking of

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human beings is abolishing the prostitution and sexual exploitation
In the social aspect, prostitution is a profession that is also seen as a
social phenomenon that has a great importance due to the impact that prostitution
has on ideology of society and on the functioning of the roles of persons belonging
to a society, since, as in this case the woman's role is to work with dignity or stay in
the domestic work. This activity greatly affects the social structure because it has
implications for violence, the family, divorce, and of course in human dignity, so
these issues affect the ideology that has a good social structure. Prostitution is an
issue that was part of our past is part of our present and is something that will be
part of our future. Prostitution generates more violence today since, as organized
crimes buying and goes to work people who engage in prostitution, not only in the
sphere of pleasure and sensation, but in the transportation of drugs. The
prostitution working with organized crime to transport drugs and of course to give
drugs to people who are involved in this activity. An example of this relationship
between prostitution and organized crime, is the story of “televisa” newscasts
called "persons engaged" in which recounts how a 13 year old girl was forced to
be part of a prostitution ring through the offense of these people, who through
deceit took her to the practice of this activity, and in which drug use, physical
abuse and child pornography are elements that occurred one to one resulting in a
connection between prostitution and crime after another.
This clearly affects society because it causes that people acquire and have
the ease of getting drugs, which causes the destruction of families and especially
the destruction of the lives of consumers, both morally and socially. Drug users
begin to engage in kidnapping, since, as, drugs looking for more power and
therefore make money no matter the consequences or the damage that will cause
to society which carries a series of changes in society, increase the problems of
insecurity and therefore society begins to degrade.
Although this continue happening, something to keep in mind is that people

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who is involved in prostitution are also members of our society, who also share
ideas and goals. They are humans and nobody is always perfect, the acceptance
is something that has place in our lives and must understand the contexts, that is
the environment in which people live and develop that do not concern us directly.
Society will continue to have problems about accepting this kind of situations
because it is something that goes against the status that man has within a society,
since, as, now the ideology of the human is that they have to working with dignity.
On account of this activity, the people who are involved in prostitution are
rejected by society. Prostitution is not taken into account as a job for society and
therefore people, who engage in this, are socially marginalized.
Prostitution not only goes against social morals as argue by society but is
an issue that brings a series of health problems and therefore society continues
to discriminate people who practice it. Today the society lives with uncertainty and
with terror of the diseases that can occur, since, as prostitution is not practiced
only with one person but several people. Therefore people prone to get infected
of various diseases, simply because when practicing prostitution many people do
not care if the person who practices prostitution has any diseases other people are
prone to illness.
It's a great social problem that on account of prostitution a lot of people
acquire diseases such as AIDS, so the great majority of society does not accept
these people in their group. Society describes the people that practice prostitution,
as who do not qualify as human dignity and have therefore brings more problems
in society as in the case, the disease. Today, many people have diseases because
of unsafe sex with infected people or within care.
According to estimates by the National Center for AIDS Prevention and
Control (CENSIDA), together with UNAIDS, 220,000 adults in Mexico are HIV-

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infected (2009), of which 60% are men who have sex with men (MSM), 23%
of heterosexual women and 6% clients of sex workers, mainly heterosexual
(Translation to English). It can be seen that 6% are clients of sex workers and
this data shows that people infected with AIDS is low to acquire by this means.
However it is not taking into account that these people can be a danger of infection
because they are transmit to other healthy people about their environment.
That's why the theme of prostitution, the man makes his feel affected by
people who practice this activity or concerned about the social problems that may
arise in the practice of prostitution. As already mentioned above; this generates
violence, family problems, but mostly lost the values ​of human dignity.
By the other hand, in the cultural aspect prostitution is also known as
the oldest profession of the world; in the past, there used to be two kinds of
prostitution: (mercaba.org)
*The sacred prostitution: women were singers and dancers, and it wasn´t
considered as something wrong because it had a religious cause.
* Profane prostitution: it´s practically the prostitution as we know it. The difference
with the sacred prostitution is that, that one wasn´t in change of money, while this
one is all about money and selling your body.
It depends on the country you live in, and the religion that is practiced,
how they people is going to see prostitution. For example, the Catholic Church
is against prostitution and they even think that people who are prostituted
are “slaves that need to be liberated”. They are actually against many things
like the use of preservatives for not getting pregnant, but they know that we live
in different times, so in the book of Peter Seewald, The light of the world. The
Pope, the church, and the signs of the time, the authors shows that the Pope has
accepted the use of condoms in certain cases, such as the prostitution.
There are many countries where prostitution is illegal, such as in the

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United States (but not in all their states, such as Nevada), China, North Korea,
Vietnam, in almost all the Muslim countries, where the punishment for prostitution
is death sentence.
But in contrast there are also countries where prostitution is legal and
there is not a problem for the population, like in Netherlands where actually the
government takes care about the prostitutes by having anonymous clinics where
they can go and see if they don´t have any illness. But actually they are very
healthy, and the only thing that prostitutes have to prove to the authorities is that
they have 18 years or more.
The problem is, when prostitution leads to human trafficking and they
become as what the church say they are “slaves” that can´t escape, and
are forced to do terrible things. Or when people that are under 18 prostitute
themselves because they need some money, and in many countries, the police
doesn´t do anything. But in the case of Netherlands, the state pays for college, so
if those prostitutes actually want to study a career they could afford it.
Other thing is that in many countries people think that prostitutes do not
deserve respect, because of what they do, and they treat them really bad, by
hurting them in a physical and psychological way, while they are waiting for
a customer or while they are working. . They forget that the fact that they are
prostitutes doesn´t mean that they don´t have rights or feelings.
As a conclusion our team, having made a previous investigation,
agreed in the same position for any reason is coarse sell the sexuality of a human
being in exchange for a monetary fine. Which means that we are against
prostitution is used as a last resort to get money for reasons or circumstances
beyond his/her unable to have a job or profession that enables him to maintain a
stable life as anyone else. We are in full agreement that there are other
possibilities before coming to prostitution as a last resort, or for many other people,

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as a first resort, because job opportunities are low or zero; according to the latest
report on the consensus of economist INEGI underemployment rose 8.5% against
8.1% in the same period there is no possibility of having a stable job. For this
reason prostitution is given more and more, as it is something that will never cease
to need, and there will always be someone who needs or request this service.
Prostitution may be illegal in cases where it involves minors, where they are
sold for this service or forced to do so by their own mothers or fathers to get more
money from this, children, adolescents and adults that are involved in prostitution
go through very difficult times where they do not know what the solution to their
problems and deriving from this service are more problems than they already have,
such as sexually transmitted diseases (STD), unwanted children who grow up and
would probably do the same his mother because is all that he/she has seen all her
life and apart from this they have psychological problems which greatly affect the
decision-making process. In order to account indirectly affects us all. We as a team
think that there is a solution to this phenomenon and is linked to the government
and the Mexican think we need to have more options available and work places
or offices will be open to people wanting to have a job actually this is a problem
not only in México it happened with more frequency in all the countries with crisis
problems and its affect us too and that the minimum wages need to rise a certain
percentage so the people who wants to work get a better impression? of a job and
that's not getting the job, is to have a well-paid job.
We also need education; we propose that there should be more public
schools with more space for people who want to get ahead. With this, people
can get a good job so well paid and happy to have those people who were in
prostitution as a better job, because they would gain more than a common work.
The hardest part is to change the thinking of the Mexican people, wanting to
leave all at the last minute, not wanting to do this more difficult and take the easy
way. This mentality can be changed from small children, which is where most are
making this idea; we agree that education is a key point. Regarding the sale of
children for prostitution, we think of a solution in which what support the causes

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that contribute to this as unwanted children, slavery, bribery, cheating and so on,
all of the above can be lessened if the generation that makes the change takes into
accounts the challenges from below, from basic education.
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