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Personally, I am glad that there are groups out there trying to help people with problems but the issue of prostitution has more to do with the social/individual problems that drive some women into it. Whenever a teenage girl runs away from home, she often does not have the resources/age to get gainful employment legitimately. Then there are the ones who have a drug addiction and end up using one of the few resources they have to get enough money to both supply thier addiction and other needs. Next are the ones who work a legit job, but who have a sick child/parent/partner and end up doing a few "dates" every week to make the ends meet. Then there are the aspiring actresses/models/singers who can't get enough work in the field, so they turn a few tricks. Then you have some who have a lazy mean partner who forces them into it with the threat of physical abuse (the old "Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde" pimp). Is prostitution a victimless crime; far from it, and unfortunately the biggest victim is the prostitue.

Its Women who drive the market! I mean if the kitty was easier to get without spending time, money or endangering a marriage; then there would not be men desperate enough to pay for it with cash. After all no matter what the situation is with someone who actually walks the street; if women were not selling it then no one could Buy it.
Women own half of all the stuff in the world but 100% of all the kitt kat. Market forces at work here folks!

Original Trucker-
1. When a teen runs away.. what she didnt want to follow her parents rule? She was being abused? took off with her boyfriend? All things with other answers other than selling your body, except to unruly teens.

2.Drug addicted women would rather continue to use their body instead of get clean and lead a clean life with a regular 9-5. That is a little more than they ever want to do.

3.A few dates every week to make ends meet? Gimmee a break they are the same ones that get their hair done every week, manicures, pedicures.. and where is dad.. he should be contributing to making ends meet too. If not there are government handouts that I just love whatching part of my paycheck disappear to.
4.Then you have some who have a lazy mean partner who forces them into it with the threat of physical abuse (the old "Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde" pimp

Do you have ANY idea how many organizations there are to hide and secure a new life for these kind of women?

All of these women choose to prostitute, because it is too hard to got the legal route.. Well for all those that work their arse off day in and day out without selling out.... I am sick of the excuses.

They want a quick answer, fix... well the rest of us have to work work work to afford it legally.

kids, some of them wouldn't be hitting the streets, and if others were more proactive some of them wouldn't be gone either. The biggest problem for parent's is figuring out which way to go. Too many teens today have that "you can't treat me like that" attitude, and there aren't enough parents willing to say, "go ahead, make your bed and sleep in it. I'm done writing the checks to pay for you and your mistakes." Then you couple into that all of the "street smart" kids out there, who think dropping out of school, pot, crack, meth and the thug life are going to get them somewhere in life. Then when they realize that it isn't, it's too late for them. They've got three or four kids, by just as many daddies, a hundred dollar a day pot and booze addiction, welfare apartment, EBT card, AFDC monthly check, an application pending for SSI (mental problems due to alcoholism/drug addiction/laziness) for themselves, and applications for each of the kids (ADD/ADHD due to mom's alcohol/drug use during pregnancy). So they go on the stroll, again and again and again, to get that money for the drugs and booze that numbs the pain of the failure they've become. The wasted life they now lead, and the probable disasters the lives of thier children will be. So they lower themselves to having sex with nameless, sometimes dangerous men in order to make that buck!

Oh, and as far as the "Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde" pimp/partner, in most of these cases the women have undergone a series of beatings/make ups, and other mind and relationship controls which has caused them to become brain washed. They are in the same situation as the women who are in abusive relationships and who keep on going back to thier abuser or refuse to press charges against them; they believe that thier partner "loves" them, and is a really "good" person and that they "deserve" punishment for whatever transgressions they have done or that thier partner "will never" beat them again. These are the women we read about who end up dead because thier partner beat them to death, even after the police had intervened several times in the past, and the abuser might have done some jail time, but they couldn't get themselves to leave thier abuser. Do the organizations help them? They are most certainly out there, and do help many women, but the truth is, if the victim of abuse doesn't want to take the help, or has deluded themselves about the intentions and character of thier abuser then these organizations will never see them or they might show up, and then disappear on them.

Choices. It's all about choices. We all make them. Prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world. It goes waaaaaay back to biblical times. Why do they do it? Because they want to! Do I believe in prostitution? No way. I have more self respect than that. Those women will look old beyond their years in no time. Sad.