Legalising Prostitution in Britain

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Legalising Prostitution in Britain

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ABSTRACT

In this study we try to explore the concept of Prostitution in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on legalizing prostitution and its relation with the society of Britain. The research also analyzes many aspects of Prostitution and tries to gauge its advantages and disadvantages. Finally the research describes various factors whether to legalise prostitution or not.

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Popularly called "the world's oldest profession", prostitution is morally disapproved in almost all societies, given that the degradation is for people who practice it.

Prostitution can be defined as the exchange of sexual favours for combined and not sentimental or emotional interests. Although prostitution often consists in an exchange relationship between sex and money, this is not a rule. You can trade sex for professional favours for material goods (including money), for information, etc. (Leichtentritt 2004 349)

Problem Statement

It is often said that prostitution is the world's oldest profession. Do not know. But if it were, it seems incredible that in a country as old as Britain (and in many other nations) has not yet found a suitable legal reserve of that activity. The Great Britain has made a lot of progress, especially considering the decriminalisation of prostitution in the system. But the truth is that, not being an illegal activity, prostitution is clearly lawless: one can not be discharged as such in Social Security, or form an ad hoc contract work, or pay the tax under this heading. And of course, that ultimately leads to a strong uncertainty.

Research Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives of the study are to find out what are the impacts of legalising prostitution. As well as to figure out the pros and cons of legalising prostitution in Britain.

Significance of the Study

Emphasizing that legalisation would improve the lives of people who prostitute themselves; they would have regular medical examinations. First, what is termed "medical examination" is just a control mechanism, equivalent to the inspection of motor vehicles. After taking into account the experience of other countries, most of the hustlers and prostitutes would refuse them for fear of social stigma and loss of anonymity. This would thicken the street prostitution.

Research Questions

The study tries to answer the following research question

  • What is prostitution?
  • What does legalising prostitution means?
  • What are the pros and cons of legalising prostitution?

Reliability and Validity

The term bias is a historically unfriendly pejorative frequently directed at action research. As much as possible, the absence of bias constitutes conditions in which reliability and validity can increase. Most vulnerable to charges of bias are action research inquiries with a low saturation point (i.e., a small N), limited interrater reliability, and unclear data triangulation. Positivist studies make attempts to control external variables that may bias data; interpretivist studies contend that it is erroneous to assume that it is possible to do any research—particularly human science research— that is uncontaminated by personal and political sympathies and that bias can occur in the laboratory as well as in the classroom. While value-free inquiry may not exist in any research, the critical issue may not be one of credibility but, rather, one of recognizing divergent ways of answering questions associated with purpose and intent. Action research can meet determinants of reliability and validity if primary contextual variables remain consistent and if researchers are as disciplined as possible in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting the evidence of their study; in using triangulation strategies; and in the purposeful use of participation validation. Ultimately, action researchers must reflect rigorously and consistently on the places and ways that values insert themselves into studies and on how researcher tensions and contradictions can be consistently and systematically examined.

Generalizability

Is any claim of replication possible in studies involving human researchers and participants? Perhaps even more relevant to the premises and intentions that underlie action research is the question, is this desirable in contributing to our understanding of the social world? Most action researchers are less concerned with the traditional goal of generalizability than with capturing the richness of unique human experience and meaning. Capturing this richness is often accomplished by reframing determinants of generalisation and avoiding randomly selected examples of human experience as the basis for conclusions or extrapolations. Each instance of social interaction, if thickly described, represents a slice of the social world in the classroom, the corporate office, the medical clinic, or the community centre. A certain level of generalizability of action research results may be possible in the following circumstances:

  • Participants in the research recognize and confirm the accuracy of their contributions.
  • Triangulation of data collection has been thoroughly attended to.
  • Interrater techniques are employed prior to drawing research conclusions.
  • Observation is as persistent, consistent, and longitudinal as possible.
  • Dependability, as measured by an auditor, substitutes for the notion of reliability.
  • Conformability replaces the criterion of objectivity.

Ethical Considerations

One profound moral issue that action researchers, like other scientists, cannot evade is the use they make of knowledge that has been generated during inquiry. For this fundamental ethical reason, the premises of any study—but particularly those of action research—must be transparent. Moreover, they must attend to a wider range of questions regarding intent and purpose than simply those of validity and reliability. These questions might include considerations such as the following:

  • Why was this topic chosen?
  • How and by whom was the research funded?
  • To what extent does the topic dictate or align with methodology?
  • Are issues of access and ethics clear?
  • From what foundations are the definitions of science and truth derived?
  • How are issues of representation, validity, bias, and reliability discussed?
  • What is the role of the research? In what ways does this align with the purpose of the study?
  • In what ways will this study contribute to knowledge and understanding?

A defensible understanding of what constitutes knowledge and of the accuracy with which it is portrayed must be able to withstand reasonable scrutiny from different perspectives. Given the complexities of human nature, complete understanding is unlikely to result from the use of a single research methodology. Ethical action researchers will make public the stance and lenses they choose for studying a particular event. With transparent intent, it is possible to honour the unique, but not inseparable, domains inhabited by social and natural, thereby accommodating appreciation for the value of multiple perspectives of the human experience.

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

Prostitution

Prostitution is having sex with strangers in exchange for money or other valuables. It is implied that the payment is made for a specific reward. Prostitution is a service that can be done by men or women to request either men or women takes place in cities around the world and has certain common characteristics, although the number of prostitutes vary widely from city to city that is next to it. (Leheny 2005 367)

Prostitution in History

In the third millennium BC, in Babylon all women were required at least once in their life, to go to the shrine of Militta (Greek Aphrodite) to practice sex with a foreigner as a sign of hospitality, in return token payment. This rite comes from the Sumerian culture goddess Inanna, goddess of beauty and sensuality. Its priestesses, who were consecrated virgins at the temple service, fornicating with those who had left the temple a financial gift to the goddess. The Bible contains numerous references to acts "abominable" of these priests, the Canaanites. (Lasaridis 2001 67)

The divine love Inanna / Ishtar is the patroness of prostitutes and extramarital affairs, which certainly had no special connotation in Babylon, and that marriage was a solemn contract to perpetuate the family as the mainstay of the state and as a generator of wealth, but in which there was no talk of love or loving fidelity. Thus, men were allowed to offer their wives as collateral for a loan payment. (Kidd 2002 411)

In ancient Greece, prostitution was practiced by both women and young men. The Greek term for porn and prostitution, from the verb pernemi (sell), this resulted in the modern sense. The prostitutes had to wear distinctive clothing and were forced to pay taxes. In the church, there had a place reserved and even separate from where the rest were buried. (Kurtz 2004 357)

It is believed that it was in ancient Athens where he established the first brothel in the sixth century BC, and local business (a service equivalent to the average wage of a day) which was not permitted to customer uptake. (Luckenbill 2006 283)

In the Roman Empire, prostitution was common and had different names for women in prostitution as their status and expertise. The cuadrantarias were named for charging a quadrant (a pittance). The experts were practitioners of fellatio (suck), the most degrading act. (Kuntay 2002 345)

In ancient Rome, some male prostitutes waiting in the corners of the baths to women who request their services. According to the Roman hierarchy of sexual degradation, a man suspected of practicing cunnilingus on a woman was reduced more than one that was penetrated by another man. He imposed the infamous legal status, the same level as prostitutes, gladiators and actors, which prevented him from voting and to represent him in court. (Jenness 2000 403)

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 The Egyptians were the first to prohibit intercourse with native women or domiciled pilgrims in the temples and other sacred places of the time. In ancient Egypt, some women, prostitutes are not always known as felatrices, painted lips of one colour to make known their preference for this practice.

In the Phoenician culture emerged holding a series of parties and celebrations in honour of two deities of love. At these parties, women are severely in the body, later to offer their hair to the goddess. Women who wanted to keep their hair, with obvious contempt for her modesty, left the ...

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