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INTRODUCTION

A prostitute is defined by the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary as "a person who offers herself / himself for sexual intercourse for money." Legally, Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. The services may consist of any sexual acts, including those which do not involve copulation. While payment may be any nonsexual consideration, most commonly it is in the form of money.

In what seems to be a world historical pattern, an upsurge in prostitution followed the effects of urbanization and wage labor. In Africa and Latin America this trend was heightened by industrial development, which greatly accelerated extensive displacement of people from traditional kinship ties. Women often supplemented their low wages with occasional prostitution, or, in the absence of employment, turned to prostitution as full-time work.

Although a persistent phenomenon throughout human history, it remains difficult to view prostitution in an objective light as various......

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