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Contrary to belief, it pays to be a prostitute. Revenue from the global prostitution industry is estimated at almost US$108 billion, which dwarfs the global spending on cosmetics and toiletries, the legal gaming revenue in the US, and the GDP of the European Union.
Prostitution has existed since ancient times. The society of Mesopotamia once protected prostitutes' inheritance and property rights. In ancient Greece, male and female prostitutes were allowed to offer the pleasures of the flesh. The Roman Empire also permitted organised prostitution.
Communist regimes had tried to stamp out the vice without any success. In Sweden, Norway and Iceland, prostitution is considered a form of exploitation; it is illegal to buy sexual services for money but it is permissible to sell them in these countries.
Prostitution is a legitimate, taxable business that is regulated in the Netherlands, Germany, and most parts of Australia and Nevada. It is even legal to advertise sexual services in the Netherlands. German prostitutes who number 400,000 are entitled to social benefits such as pension, health insurance and 40-hour week.
Child prostitutes
The world's oldest profession is also regulated in 20 countries, including Greece, Switzerland, Mexico and Colombia. It is tolerated to prevent greater evils such as rape, sodomy and self-abuse.
Despite police raids and regulations, nearly 1.2 million children in India are forced into prostitution. On the other hand, child prostitution thrives in Thailand where one million women trade their bodies for cash, and prostitution is a US$6.4 billion enterprise.
Prostitution in Japan is reported to net annual earnings of US$27 billion. The vice business in the UK is only US$1.2 billion but it is more than the takings of cinemas and many forms of entertainment.
In the US, nearly four million prostitutes, or slightly more than one per cent of its population, are at work -- more than the population of Iceland, Luxembourg or Gibraltar. Children "trapped in modern-day slavery" are estimated at 300,000.
It is argued that if prostitution were legalised in the US, the rape rate would decrease by 25 per cent or 22,000. The tax revenue would surely rise, for prostitution generates US$14 billion a year.
Vice in massage parlours
No official figures of prostitution are available in Malaysia, which has become a haven for foreign fallen women. Nevertheless, at least 142,000 women are engaged in the profitable industry, which offers sexual services in nightspots, hotels and massage parlours. In 2011, 11,832 foreigners and 1,801 locals were arrested for the crime.
Legislators, law enforcers and campaigners have blamed sex trafficking, forced prostitution, easy money and poverty for the spread of the vice. There is also the unceasing demand, for one in ten men in the world have sought the sexual services.
Prostitution is considered immoral in Muslim countries. It is a "public order crime" in the US. Where prostitutes enjoy legal status, it boosts the government coffers.
The fear is that if prostitution were legalised more women would be tempted or lured to join the profession. And these women would die earlier than fishermen!
The plus side is that prostitutes would be required to under mandatory health checks. They and their patrons would thus not be exposed to the high risk of contacting sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, syphilis and genital warts.
Whatever measures are adopted, one certainty is that prostitution is here to stay -- for good.
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