Prostitution And Sex Trafficking Essay

In a report prepared for The National Institute of Justice, it is stated that the markets for prostitution and sex trafficking, like any other market, is driven by demand (Shively, Kliorys, Wheeler, & Hunt, 2012). The report, in backing Davis’ claims, clarifies that while it may be a generalization to say that demand is the sole influential force on any market, it is indisputable that removing or reducing a demand would be effective in diminishing or eliminating that market (2012). Without a demand, the pimp’s or madam’s need to supply or a trafficker’s need to distribute would not exist. It was noted in this report that over a course of many studies aimed at collecting reasons for procuring sex from prostitutes was found (Shively et al., 2012). The report finds that men hiring prostituted persons for the following:

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753). As Davis (1937) indicates, commercial prostitution utilizes the action of sex as an end that is not socially functional; one party aims for pleasure, and the other for monetary gain. Davis (1937) explains that in combining the act of intercourse with purely physical pleasure and by action, voiding reproduction, the sentimental attributions society ascribed to intercourse is removed. Likewise, as Davis writes, to combine the mentioned action of sex with money – “the most impersonal and atomistic type of reward possible” (1937, p. 749) – replicates the same result of removed sentiments. Hence, prostitution, as explained by Davis, “represents the elements of hire, promiscuity, and emotional indifference” (1937, p. 749). Thus, in respect to the findings provided by Shively et al. and Davis’ explanation, it may be concluded that these elements are the reason for a typical john’s motivation to purchase