Cause of prostitution The profession of trade of prostitution has existed in all civilized country from earliest time.

According to social research made so far females are drawn in to prostitution for a variety of reasons. A study of Kanpur prostitutes has revealed that though a majority of prostitutes have taken their profession due to extreme poverty, but there are many who have willingly adopted it after a series of love exploits. Though economic factor is important but there are several external causes, which induce/force persons, particularly women and children to turn to prostitute for livelihood over which they have no control. The most important causes which can be classified in the following categories are: (1) Economic Cause (2) Social Cause (3) Psychological Cause (4) Biological Cause (5) Religious and Cultural Cause (6) Family and community oriented prostitution, i.e., Mathamma community in Tiruvallur District, Baduva Community in Jumbuliputhur in Dindigual District of Tamil Nadu, etc. (7) Lack of sex education (8) Inability to arrange marriage (9) Prior incest and rape (10) Early marriage and desertion (11) Lack of recreational facilities, ignorance, and acceptance of prostitution

(12) Kidnapping and abduction (13) Sale by parents and husbands, especially in certain areas of Chittor, Bellampalli, Warangal etc in Andhra Pradesh and in Northern states of U.P and M.P etc. (14) Deceit and cheating by parents. (15) Pornography including Soft and Strong literature and entertainment. (16) Problematic drug use and alcohol abuse. (17) Debt and Cast system in society Economic Cause As we know economic compulsion constitutes the major factor in the causation of prostitution. In India there are prostitutes who are compelled to adopt prostitution to feed themselves and their family. However, poverty is not the only economic factors, there are many other factors which are economic. (a)Poverty including Illiteracy and difficulty in finding job (b)Under-age employment (c)Immoral traffic of woman and children (a)Poverty According to me poverty leads crime in our society. Poverty factor is the most responsible factor for prostitution. It follows a chain. Poverty leads to illiteracy, illiteracy leads to unemployment and unemployment leads to crime in society and prostitution is one of crime. A poor woman who is unable to get any employment due to illiteracy and who does not has superior must either starve to death or earn her livelihood through prostitution. In India, due to poverty many parents prostitute their own child.

(b)Under age employment In India, due to poverty many females have to work in hotels, offices, industry and shop at immature age. At this impressionable age they are easily misled by lust seeker. (c)Immoral traffic of woman and children Many girls are kidnapped from their homes by pimps. They properly train them in the art of prostitution and when these girl attain the age of maturity they sold them. (2) Social Cause The social causes are extremely important factor in encouraging and promoting prostitution. The social factors are (a)Family Cause (ill treatment by parents) (b)Bad neighbour

(a)Family Cause (Ill and harsh treatment by parents at home) A social research on prostitution reveals that most of the prostitutes were connected with family troubles like Experience of violence, ill treatment and abuse at home. Their parents were either living separated or their family or relatives were so strained that as children they were left to their own machinations and received no love and affection from their parents. These children can be easily misguided by lust seeker. (b)Bad neighbour It includes two causes.

# Truancy or exclusion from the rest of the peer group and poor educational attainment # The children living near brothels or in the company of immoral persons become so used to seeing sex trade that they come to accept it as normal. The children who get exposed to sex business want to have the exhilarating experience at the first available opportunity. (3) Psychological Cause There are some psychological facts which tend the person towards prostitution. A woman who is frigid becomes desperate and she tried one after another because of frigidity. She has greater sex urge and desire for variety in sexual life. Thats why she is unable to experience pleasure and becomes a prostitute by profession. (4) Biological Cause The person born with defective sex organ or overactive glands may feel compelled to sex gratification in bizarre manner. (5) Religious and Cultural Cause (Social Custom) In India there has been a religious sanction to prostitution. In South India, (especially in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) every family was suppose to offer one daughter to the temple where apparently she suppose to serve gods with total dedication. They were known as Devadasis. (6) Family prostitutes In prostitution business age is directly proportional to cost. So after the age of 35 they are unable to earn their livelihood and feed their family. In this case prostitutes daughter has to adopt this family prostitution business. In Khakranagla village of Rajsthan Bedia caste is known for family prostitution business. (A Rajasthan village where prostitution is tradition July 9, 2006 | Saira Kurup , TNN)

(7) Lack of sex education Due to lack of sexual knowledge they have a lot of misconception about sex and ultimately this misconception result in to prostitution.

Impact of Prostitution The impact of prostitution at large seems to destroy its very ethos. Besides bringing down the moral standards in our society it casts a stigma on all the connected conniving persons to do this bad act. The helpless victims usually are various persons of either sexes of any age groups and even innocent children, spreading diseases such as STD, HIV, AIDS. Besides inflicting serious harm and damages to the concerned victims through spread of infectious diseases, they also make the persons involved potential agents for their spread. Prostitution makes victims of many of those involved in it and of those communities in which it takes place. Key concerns include. Impact of Prostitution is following (a)The nuisance caused to the neighbourhoods through noise, litter, and harassment. (b)Impact on Youth:The advertising of prostitution particularly through soliciting on street and through internet has an adverse effect on young generation. (c) The spread of sexual and drug transmitted infection and diseases (d) Business of prostitution links with drug abuse /market. (e) Prostitution link with criminality. (f) Related violence including serious assault on those involved in prostitution leading to disorder of Law and Order in our society.

(g) The negative impact of prostitutes on their family and it leads to family prostitution in our society. (h) The effect on the attitude of men to women and on gender equality, more generally. (i) Making some persons as professional of trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. (j) The increase stigmatization and social exclusion of those involved in prostitution.

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