Cela, en raison du handi β¦. The privately employee-owned firm, Huawei en β¦. Best things in life are free. Zero frais mensuels, pas d β¦. Plus tard Ne plus afficher. Prostitution: the social and legal implications Avec le soutien de. Before adopting such severe laws to eliminate prostitution, we need to go deeper into the root causes which make of a woman a prostitute. Purely economic The main cause for a woman to become a prostitute is economic.
Would a woman, who basically needs love, affection and attention from a man, give her body to be abused for the pleasure of a strange man, unless she is forced to? In most cases, a woman sells her body to cater for her small children or even an ailing husband. Some women fall prey to vice-ridden men or women who exercise pressure on women, young girls or boys to take to prostitution and earn money. Desire to acquire more When talking of prostitutes, we should not target only those from the low classes of society who are very vulnerable.
We have women coming from the middle or even the upper classes. How could one identify these women who, during office lunch time, practise prostitution in the privacy of hotels in the capital and thus earn extra cash. These high-class prostitutes sell themselves for extra cash to afford luxuries. How can one prove that the man has paid the woman? Moreover, the law allows an adult to have physical relations with another consenting adult.
Therefore, laws to penalise prostitutes and their customers would probably identify only the poor and easily exposed. Arresting and heavily penalisingthe latter and their customers would not actually remedy the situation. It is important and human to go deep into the problem.
The first thing to attempt would be to reform the prostitutes, rehabilitate them in social centres where they could be trained in different skills to enable them to earn their living, get back their dignity as human beings and be integrated in the work force. However, the present situation in Mauritius is very alarming as many women have lost their jobs due to the regular closing of factories.
