Prostitution in Malaysia & Asia

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A “Whore”, “ Whores” , “Prostitute”, “Sex Workers” and “ The Oldest Profession” is a title accorded to prostitute or sex workers. Prostitution is a sexual service sale. Such as oral sex or through sexual intercourse. One who prostitute mentioned prostitute. Most prostitute were female, were still male prostitute who called as a “ Gigolo”. There is several factors happened prostitution activity, about are because political, drugs, government, early sexual history, intercourse between men and woman, role of media like television, internet and magazine. Beside that, prostitution is happened because by other reasons namely, poverty, unemployment, fail in marriage and so on.


1. Government Role

Government played important role in inside factors the prostitution is happened. As an example, Thailand had introduced sex tourism as a travelling for sexual intercourse with prostitutes or to engages in other sexual activity. The sex tourism is a legal in the Thailand, it is because an activity give large contribution in national economy. The World Tourism a specialized agency of the United Nation defines the sex tourism as a trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using it’s structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination.


2. Drugs influence

Drug was any also chemical substance, whether natural or imitation, when inserted into person by injected, sniffed, being sucked or eaten can change someone's body body function or organism physically or mental. Drugs frequently used is Heroin, Morfin, Candu, ganja (hashish or marijuanan or cannabis), amphetamin, barbitured, pill mx, cocaine and others are primarily through prostitution. Some receive money for the sex, which is then used to pay for drugs. Others, sometimes called strawberries, receive the drug directly in trade for sex. These drug-addicted prostitutes most commonly take part in street prostitution, as they typically lack the resources to work independently from a private residence or be escort prostitutes, and many brothels do not want to employ visible drug users. However, drugs and prostitution are increasingly becoming connected in urban areas in the developing world, for example in urban areas in Karachi and Thailand.


3. Early Sexual History

Furthermore, early sexual history is a factors the prostitution happened. Sex from parents and from personal experience such as rape and incest. Rape case which occurred cause victim becoming lost spirit and despair to are surviving on. As such, most of they will be looked upon poorly by society, then victim take short cut becoming prostitute in order to release stress undergone. Same with father treatment, mother or sibling namely incest also contribute to occurence of prostitution activity in Malaysia and Asia. That incident cause lost victim belief to family member, past involve self in prostitution. The analysis of these data on early sexual history concentrates on a abusive sexual experiences such as incest and rape.


4. Mass Media Role

Apart from that factor which resulted occurence of prostitution activity was,mass media. Flooded pornographic films, love scene in internet television and facility and magazine such as playboy magazine had given great contribution in prostitution case increase in Malaysia and Asia. Unfortunately, this case difficult to be blocked by body concerned because be element of bribe and so on. furthermore, parents also always missed looking with their children's activity.


5. Friends Influence

Friends' influence is their cause involved inside prostitution arena at first to seek out easy money. The Sex Workers or prostitute ensure high payment especially for young girl that does not aducated. Even though stigma and danger in that job. Other factors bring about prostitution also is poverty factor which resulted mother or single father looking for an easy way to change poverty status experienced by they. Beside that, for single mothers with posses child, it is simplest save time and payment relatively high factory job or other service sector.


Due to this, that factors had contributed to prostitution activity increase in Malaysia and in Asia. This was necessary problem overcame because that social phenomenon would result occurence of variety to government problem or one myself individual, for example infect AIDS and symptom disease abandon child.

Prostitution generally is defined as the practice of providing sexual services for money, but because it requires a buyer and seller it can more appropriately be defines as a practice of exchanging money for sexual service. Heterosexual prostitution (men as buyers and women as sellers) is most common; homosexual prostitution between men exist on a smaller scale. Lesbian prostitution between women exist but there is a little evidence in it the research literature.


According to Mellisa Farley, paper presented at the 11th International Congress on Women's Health Issues, University of California college of Nursering, San Francisco. 1-28-2000. All prostitution causes harm to women. Whether it is being sold by one’s family to a brothel, or whether it is being sexually abused in one’s family, running away from home, and then being pimped by one’s boyfriend, or whether one is in college and needs to pay for next semester’s tuition and one works at a strip club behind glass where men never actually touch you – all these forms of prostitution hurt the women .


We can conclude that prostitution is an act of violence against women which is intrinsically traumatizing. In a study of 475 people in prostitution (including women, men, and the transgendered) from five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia):




(Melissa Farley, Isin Baral, Merab Kiremire, Ufuk Sezgin, "Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" (1998) Feminism & Psychology 8 (4): 405-426