To browse Academia. The International Observatory on Sexual Exploitation of the Scelles Foundation publishes the " International Press Overview on Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution", a compilation of over articles which have been collected during the year. It is a unique look back at the prostitution evolution worldwide.
The International Observatory on Sexual Exploitation publishes its annual press overview on prostitution and sex trafficking, a compilation of articles collected in A unique look back at the prostitution evolution worldwide. A precious tool for analyzing the current affairs day after day and for detecting new evolutions.
Around the world today, there is a human rights crisis of sexual abuse of millions of women, children, and thousands of men in prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. There are regions of the world where prostitution has gone from being almost non-existent to a hundred million dollar moneymaking industry.
This essay provides a global overview of prostitution from the early modern period to the present. The focus on female prostitution in urban settings is justified by the fact that commercial sex has nearly always been a city phenomenon involving women servicing men. Although the distinction between "pre-modern" and "modern" prostitution is not necessarily sharp, the profound political, military and socioeconomic changes from ca. Child prostitution involves offering the sexual services of a child or inducing a child to perform sexual acts for any form of compensation, financial or otherwise.
For the purposes of this article, a child is anyone younger than 18 years, as defined by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child prostitution differs from child sexual abuse, such as incest or molestation, because it involves commercial exploitation. However, it is similar to child sexual abuse in that children cannot consent to being prostituted because, in addition to child prostitution being illegal and a violation of human rights conventions, children do not have the requisite capacity to make such decisions.
