Prostitution Outline

Speech 100 – Group Research - Prostitution

Qui B. Nguyen

April 16, 2008

Prostitution - Outline

Introduction:

• Prostitution is sexual activity in exchange for money.

• Male prostitutes that offer their services to females are known as escorts, or gigolos.

• Pornographic a actors and a actresses get paid for having sex, but are not generally referred to as prostitutes.

• If a woman has sexual intercourse with a man who supports her financially but doesn’t live with her then she is called a mistress, and is again not normally considered a prostitute.

Body:

• Commercial sex worker or sex trade worker. A hooker or street walker solicits customers in public places; a call girl makes appointments by phone.

• Male prostitute or male escort offer service to female customers

• Work place: in street, massage parlous, barber shops, customer’s place of residence, hotel

• Advertising on newspaper, internet, magazines….

• Street prostitutes are often motivated by drug addiction.

• Male prostitutes – Escort agencies

• lethal gender inequality

• incest and other childhood sexual assault

• poverty and homelessness

• the ways in which racism and colonialism are inextricably connected with sexism in prostitution

• domestic violence, including rape

• posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, mood and dissociative disorders as consequences of prostitution

• drug and alcohol addiction

• the fact that prostitution is a global business which involves interstate and inter-country trafficking as a necessary part of its profitable operation

• in nondominant states - the ways in which economic development programs erode traditional ways of living

• the need for culturally-relevant treatment

• the ways in which diverse cultures normalize and promote prostitution

• stripping, exotic dancing, nude dancing, table dancing, phone sex, trafficking, child and adult pornography, lap...