Category: Prostitution

by Brenda Myers-Powell
June 30, 2015

Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in the early 1970s. Here she describes how she was pulled into working on the streets and why, three decades later, she devoted her life to making sure other girls don’t fall into the same trap.

by Wikipedia

Child prostitution is prostitution involving a child, and it is a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children. The term normally refers to prostitution of a minor, or person under the legal age of consent.

by Ilse Pauw, clinical psychologist and former researcher at SWEAT

According to research conducted by the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), a Cape Town organisation providing health education to sex workers, a “profile” of sex workers does not exist as a wide range of people enter the profession.

by Jared Justice

Prostitution is something that has been around for centuries, and for the past few years there has been a debate as to whether it should be legalized or not. No matter a person’s legal leanings, it is difficult to refute the fact that prostitution has negative effects on society.

by WomensLaw.org
September 1, 2016

Prostitution can be harmful on many levels, posing a threat to a woman’s mental and physical health among many other consequences.

by Janice Shaw Crouse
March 3, 2010

Our culture markets the Pretty Woman myth of the glamorous prostitute earning big money from handsome johns. That works occasionally — as long as the girl is young, beautiful, and lucky. Even then, the ravages of prostitution over time are not pretty.

by Donal Dorr

A revealing account in www.examiner.com tells of the quite horrifying effects of the legalization of prostitution in Germany. Those who had advocated legalized prostitution had argued that legalization would improve the rights of women (and men) in prostitution and would eliminate discrimination against them. In practice, however, quite the reverse has occurred.

by Michael Houdmann

God forbids involvement with prostitutes because He knows such involvement is detrimental to both men and women. Prostitution not only destroys marriages, families, and lives, but it destroys the spirit and soul in a way that leads to physical and spiritual death. God’s desire is that we stay pure and use our bodies as tools for His use and glory.

by Amanda Swysgood
23 July 2012

 A report issued by the United Nations recommends that nations around the world get rid of “punitive” laws against prostitution – or what it calls “consensual sex work” — and decriminalize the voluntary use of illegal injection drugs in order to combat the HIV epidemic.

by Andrew Lansdown
2007

Prostitution involves the selling and buying of sex. It involves an exchange of money for sex between a man and a woman who have no legal, moral or emotional attachment to each other.

How should Christians view such activity? Fortunately, as with any matter of importance, God guides us to a right perspective through his written word.