Showbiz and prostitution

In order to find a career in the world of Ivorian showbiz, and especially in the song, many 

Ivorian singers do not hesitate to prostitute themselves with their producer. 
On the Ivorian music scene, there are many singers who are therefore free produce in exchange of course, sex. These unscrupulous artists laugh madly comments that might arise later. But the difficult road to glory does not, unfortunately, on the bed of producers. It is also the same way with journalists, leaders and managers. Thus, to benefit articles, radio-TV transition or to enjoy a few shows, they are open to all players of showbiz. 

An article in People Ivorian’s magazine indicates that the current trend has increased, whereas 70% of female artists prostitute with their producers and that 10% of them pass through the bed of journalists, radio and television managers . 

To find a place in an orchestra or make an album was a privilege virtually inaccessible. However, to access this benefit, there was a price to pay. And, as the subjects did not have money, they offered sex in exchange. 
Prostitution is seen as unavoidable for the artist who wishes to pursue a great career. From another point of view, we must also remember: prostitute to any producer is not a guarantee that it will hold its promise.

Sexual tourism

Sexual tourism refers to a person who travel to have sexual relation with people, most of the time with a financial remuneration. 

This relation can be between a prostitute or habitants, who seek themselves sexual relations to have money, because they are poor.Sexual tourism concern essentially Western countries men who travel in developing country. But Western women take also “vacation” in Africa (Senegal, Madagascar, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Morocco, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania) or in the Caribbean islands (formerly Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bahamas, Puerto Rico) where young men live by offering their services. Clients are generally from Western Europa, China or Korea.

The country most frequently targeted are the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and some European countries of east and North Africa, most recently Cuba. Some countries like Brazil, 

Thailand and Morocco have recently introduced policies to fight against this phenomenon often considered immoral or degrading.

country target by sexual tourism

country where clientes are from

country designated like privilaged destination to prostitution and where clients come from

city with many sexual prostitution 

Some countries like France, Canada and Belgium have create some laws to punish themselves people how had relation for hire in another country. 

Every year 850 millions persons travel in the world, 10 % of them choice their destination for sexuel offer, according to a report of the 2 june 2007 during a the First Global day on responsible tourism. Prostitution is considerated today like the third trade in black market.

 

Clientes justify themselves with simply and falses justifications like :

“ In this country is different, they love us”

“Sexuality is natural in them culture”

“With us, they can live and eat”

Sad reality...

 ... because we knows that often clients don’t care about prostitute age, if they are major or not, consenting or not. 

We can find two types of profile, quidam and pedophile regressive. Quidam is a occasionally cliente, after a drink or a drug, who accept a sexual relation very cheap. This people are often a man, married with a good job and his family in his country  who want a new pleasure. To conclude, it’s a man feeling powerful because he have money. After, we have pedophile regressive, who have frequently access to child prostitution to have a relation, illegal in their country. Some boys believe that they are protected of AIDS.

 

ASIA

Asia is the area the most touched by sexual tourism. In Thailand, there are 2 billons of prostitute and 300 000 are minor. Every year, more than 800 000 tourists went to profite of these young prostitutes. In Cambodia, 44 % of prostitute had their first relation with an Occidental, met in bars or nightclubs. In Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia sex industry represent between 2 to 14 % of GDP of these countries.

 

"Prostitutes are everywhere, customers anywhere “

 

-     13% of male adults, have at least bought the services of a prostitute.

-    63,8% of customers attend occasional prostitute

This topic is just about customer’s male because of the lack of information about the women customers

According to Bouamama Said customers come from all age groups, the majority (47.6%) between 30 and 50 years old. These men are divorced or married, 69.8% live or have lived with a woman and more than half, 55.5% are fathers. He suggests that the financial aspect could brake the use of the prostitution, for those of certain social categories. These are men who have sex partners who are the primary clients of prostitution

Everybody could be a “customer”, but, analysis identified some pictures :

-                     The married man who does not want to take a mistress, 

-                     The single which sees women as "wasteful and expensive" 

-                     Shy clients, with emotional isolation (maybe marked by failures in love)

-                     Managers, employees and entrepreneurs

There are many potential customers. Then we wonder the impact that the trivialization and diversification of pornographic images and videos on a number of people...

 Witticisms (anecdotes):

......................            In Cambodia, a 17 year old prostitute was arrested by her own customer, a police man because of a raid.  Even though prostitution is illegal in Cambodia, many brothels operate under the protection of local police officers. And a large part of their customers are policemen.

.....................          Since January 1, Norway have punished customers but not the prostitute.

.....................         Mister Ambiel the communications adviser of the Prime Minister be arrested with a small Romanian prostitute in his BMW!

....................          The prosecutor of Nice decided to take the case to grips. The idea is to "fight against the demand for prostitution,. Also, he brought criminal charges for “soliciting” against seven customers.

 

 

Sneep case in the Netherlands

« Sneep” is the codename of the Dutch criminal brigade who investigated the case from 2005.

Two of the main brother suspects (37 and 42 years old), who are of Turkish –German origin, put many (at least 120) young women from southern and the east Europe to work as prostitutes in various towns in the Netherlands and in Germany.
In ten years, according to investigators, brothers have done 19 million euros in profit placed by their own mother in nightclubs, brothels and on bank account.
Accused of trafficking in women, Hassan and Saban Baran, were sentenced to two and seven years in prison.
Women were seduced by promises of work end gift. Then, once arrived in Germany or Netherlands, men confiscated their passports. Supervised all the time by pimps, other prostitutes and drivers, they couldn’t have contact with the outside. Moreover, most of women was beaten.

In the Netherlands, prostitution has been Tolerated for centuries and was legalized in 2000.
From 2005, large cities like Amsterdam have found that trafficking of women had reached alarming proportions, because of the lack of real control.
Today the Netherlands is a hub for international trafficking in human beings.

Long way to go; monitoring and intimidation of women and families, prevent all possible evidence (so no prosecutions) and prevent dismantling of network traffic. And for a trafficker or a pimps arrested, two are ready to take over

beach boys

In Africa (Jamaique, Kenya, Senegal Gambia, Madagascar), boys are called "beach boys" or "guides”. Beach boys find rich white tourists from seeking more than sun, sea. The majority of the beach boys are about 25 years wear dreadlocks, and tight t-shirts that put their biceps in value.

Their incomes are from time to invite tourists to eat in expensive restaurants, to make excursions, and who left him some money at the end of their stay. During the high tourist season, as summer, beach boys may have up to five or six different sexual partners. In addition, it recognizes that most women are more than 60 years.

In Senegal, economic and sexual exchanges between young Senegalese men and European tourists, the French and Italian and German, generally older, have gained visibility indisputable.

Student prostitution: your own experience

“sometimes it is easier to work in this industry, make more money quickly, pay the rent and have time to do your reading.” Sarah

“If clients are willing to pay up to £350 an hour, it’s because they don’t want a bimbo. They want a conversation as well as sex.” Sarah

More and more students are resorting to prostitution or other jobs in the sex industry to pay tuition fees.

The emergence of the Internet have widely promoted the creation of a large number of website of call girls intimate dating created. Allowing student in need of money and potential customers to anonymously contact them.

Thanks to this new means of communication, which to be in contact everyday with customers, many student prostitutes said that these experiences were not regular, but rather, when she urgently needed the money.
But, because of the taboo about the subject, nobody knows exactly how many students in France are prostituting themselves.

To understand the impact of the Internet about the student of prostitution, we have decided to register on a site for call girls: "Solene, Paris, student, offers sensual massage" ...

Result: in one night, 40 messages in men of all ages, in the area of Paris for 2 hours or overnight. Turning the simple sensual massage, to fellatio, to sodomy; French man or tourist… The majority of these men did not hesitate to offer the highest prise.

“Young man aged 50 looking for occasional massage. welcome.”

“Your ad caught my attention… My name is Peter; I lived 42 years in Paris.I want to meet you today or later? I can send you a picture of me if you wish.” Peter

“Naked massage?” Marc

“ looking pretty female nature. Fellatio possible? Yan

“interested in your ad for an appointment of 1 or 2 hours, with possible follow-up feeling so good. thank you to tell me what you do or do not do as well as your rates.” Dan

“Hello Solene, would you open for a private photo session (private collection) contacted me quickly for debating” Jerome

“it’s to request your availability and rates. I am Asian students. I need only basic and oral services” Keroro

Children and sex tourism

Asian countries, including Thailand, India, and the Phillipines, (2-14% of the gross domestic product derives from sex tourism) is the first destination for children sex tourists. However, nowadays, this trade is travelling to Mexico and Central America.

Studies point out that child prostitutes receive between two and thirty clients per week, between 100 to 1500 clients per year (many children below the age of 10).

Factors supporting Children prostitution

- The most significant reason that brings children into prostitution is poverty, often correlates with limited employment opportunities, illiteracy, and bleak financial circumstances.

Then, children in these poor families are easy targets for pimps who ensure them jobs in a city and then push the children into prostitution. Moreover some poor families themselves prostitute their children in order to get money.

- Internet has also fostered the children sex tourism: websites show potential child with pornographic accounts.

- Finally, actions by governments may further child sex tourism. Some governments have increasingly oriented tourism in their search for sources of income ( Thailand, India…). These governments in many cases turn a blind eye to the sex tourism industry to promote tourism in their country.

Student prostitution on website

How many ?
We can't give a number, because this activity can't be controlled by the autority.

Where ?
Student prostitution use Internet, many website purpose a possibility to put an ad on personal service or massage. It’s really easy and everybody can access. After clientes can choice and write to have an answer quickly to know condition, price, etc … They can meet them a first date in a coffee or bar before the sexual relations, with that "call girls or boys" feel more protected because they can refused. And after the relation is often in hostels.

How much does it cost ?
Ad on Internet often lead to a sexual relation a 200 € per hours. So it’s very attractive for "call girls" especially students, because it’s easy to access to this market and many money quickly.

5 arguments for legalisation of prostitution

1. Legalization of prostitution will create a consistency between all the laws on prostitution In fact, laws allow the prostitution but they forgive prostitute soliciting, pimps and brothels but they can’t control activity of call-girl and student who purpose their service on internet.

2. It’s time to accept that prostitute is a profession. She doesn’t sell his body but sexual service. Tell that sexuality can’t be sold, it’s a conservative mind spirit and misogynous idea of sexuality. Prostitution is sometimes the only way for sexuality and pleasure to handicapped and disabled. Prostitute have a social and human profession. Some of them said that the society judgement about them is harder than the profession.

3. Legalization of prostitution and reopening of brothels are the only means to protect really prostitute. Their conditions of work will be safer and healthier, for them and their clients. They would have sanitary control. If they wouldn’t work in street, quotidian violence and policy harassment will stop.

4. Legalization of prostitution is the best way to fight against criminality and violence on sex market, an industry how constitutes the third resource of criminal network, after drugs and guns traffics. In rich country pimps win about 150 000 $ per year with a prostitute work. But she win only a few part of all this money. Legalisation of their job let to girls to win more money and to government, because they create directly a tax on prostitute work and brothels.

5. Legalisation is the only system how can answer really to preoccupation of habitant where there is this activity. In 1985, that’s the point of view of Fraser, a special committee on prostitution and pornography create by Canadian government.

5 Argument against prostitution

1. Canadian system and another are not inconsistent, they are pragmatic. They realise that it’s impossible to stop the sex market and the trade of sexual service, so it’s useless to purchase prostitute. Canade like France and UK chose to fight indirectly against prostitution. Government with a abolitionist approach punish pimps and soliciting. If we legalise prostitution activities spread, but we need to contain them. And total repression is unrealistic.

2. Considerate prostitution like a job, it’s accepting women exploitation. It’s destroying all efforts on sex equality. It’s justified the right of clients and pimps with sale et purchase of a body. It’s forget that prostitution is at 90 % marginalized and drugs users women, more than half have been sexually abused during their childhood. It’s forget that have sexual relations impersonal and repeated lead to a desensitisation on body and feeling, how can conducted to depression or suicide.

3. Legalise prostitution don’t protect prostitute. In UK and Germany, where prostitution is legal since 2001 and 2000, experience show that many prostitutes are foreign and without papers can’t access to sanitary and juridical system. Legalisation doesn’t stop violence or contempt of population.

4. Legalisation of prostitution participates to OC mondial. Abroad, opening and success of brothels lead a search of cheap workers, how use directly women traffic. In Nederland, numbers of these women from East and Central Europa was tripled. Quebec, already considered like a area to tourism sexual in North America will see this trade grown very speedy.

5. Legalisation of prostitution is a political defeat. In Germany, cities of more than 150 000 habitants must obligatory reserve 7 to 10 % of their territory to prostitution areas. In Australia, the Daily planet the biggest brothel of Melbourne (between 100 and 150 girls) is listed since February 2003. Is this acceptable? Sweden have a better approach, considerating that if there is no clients, there is no prostitute, so they punish pimps and clients. Government has developed help services to prostitute : sanitary and education. Clients are gone, trafficants target another country : Sweden win !

AIDS : Prostitution has been a major theme in discussions about the global AIDS epidemic

Prostitution is a major theme about the discussions about the global AIDS epidemic.
In fact, the risks to have AIDS vary.
- The first cause reason of the HIV infections is the transmission of the virus during paid sex in many countries.
However, while the HIV prevalence is high in some country like Asia, where many prostitutes are living with this virus, in North America and in Europe, this transmission through paid sexe is not considered to be a major issue. It’s often due to miserable condition of prostitution in low incomes countries. Despite, a few little more money, prostitutes don’t use condoms.
In touristic countries, as the Caribbean, prostitution serves both many tourists and local clients.
- A second reason can be sex workers who injected drugs, sharing needles. ( especially in China, India, Ukraine)
For example, in Vietnam, a study found that 49% of prostitutes who use drugs were HIV positive, compared to 8% those who didn’t use any drugs.
- Man who has sexe with man

It is particularly important that sex workers gain access to HIV prevention and treatment programmes.
However, we have to think that sex workers use condoms more consistently than other populations similar in age, race, and sex…

Presentation of an association specialized in helping prostitutes.

LES AMIS DU BUS DES FEMMES
This association was created in the 90’s by (ex) prostitutes to meet each other in a bus to talk about their problems or just to tchat with others girls.
The Bus of the Women circulates through various places of prostitution of Ile-de-France since 1990. It was chosen, at the origin of the project, by the persons of the community as place of meeting, information and exchange.

During the durabilities, the association has prevention equipment (male and feminine condoms, lubricating gels…) of warm and cold drinks, cakes…
There are associative premises, a place of reception during the day where people who work in prostitution world can come to talk, to have a social or a medical assistance. Association members can help them to find another job too if they want to. Literacy, Arts, and Cooking lessons can be taught.
To sum up, the association permit prostituted people to accompany them concerning:
- financial problems, relating to health or accommodations
- administrative or juridical steps
- psychological or/and moral support
- professional reorientation, job or formation hunting, or economical activities creation.
For further information : http://lesamisdubusdesfemmes.org/

What « pimps » ?

« pimps » it’s the name of men who find and manage women and boys for prostitution and then engages them... Pimping is illegal in many countries.

More and more cities and government focus more on identifying the arrest pimps (johns in slang term) rather than the repression of prostitution and the arrest of prostitutes ... Breakthrough!!!

Interview in San fransisco
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5064700

video on child prostitution in South Africa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISFxedkhl8

Against : Legalization of prostitution is a gift to the sex industry

In the Netherlands, this amounts to approve all aspects of the sex industry: women, the "customers" and pimps are transformed into a legitimate sexual entrepreneurs. Legalization of the sex industry converts in massage parlors, sex clubs, and other can prosper.
The Decriminalization doesn’t control the sex industry, but contributes to its expansion. To remedy the inadequacies of the free market of "sexual services", the Netherlands targeting women of color living in poverty to international trade in sex. It’s an "alternative for the poor. "

Against : What does the legalization of prostitution?

Since prostitution have been decriminalized in countries, now many men see prostitution as an acceptable thing.
When the legal barriers disappear, women are treated as sexual thing. The legalization of prostitution sends a message to future generations : women are sexual and prostitution is a great distraction !