Last week something rather peculiar occured to me whilst walking from work to the train station in the Valley. I was standing at a crossing at an intersection waiting for the green man to prompt me to walk. I saw a tall man waiting on the other side, and without giving it too much thought I assumed he too was waiting for the right time to cross. The green man flashed, and as I walked across the road, the man remained motionless. It was not until I reached the other side of the road and had begun to walk in the direction of the train station, that he moved towards me, and asked the following question, "Excuse me, but I was wondering...I am not sure the name of the street," he began "but I am looking for the street in the Valley where I can find a prostitute, do you know where it is?" I was smiling at the time and it took me a while to register what this man was actually asking of me. I responded with a shake of the head and a quick "I am sorry, I really don't know," before heading in the direction of the train station. Such an encounter seemed worthwile to write about, as I have been in the Valley numerous times and have known it to be the red light district of Brisbane City, but I had never personally been affronted with the issue in such a manner.
This event got me thinking about the roots of such an ancient practice (no pun intended). Prostitution in the most plainest of terms is sex for money, and is an act that is as old as humans themselves. From my understanding, women are generally the ones who sell their bodies and men are GENERALLY the ones who pay for it. Perhaps I will display my ignorance on this topic, but my question is how can this continue to occur in a country like Australia and in a city like Brisbane? Prostitution seems to me the last option for a woman. In a country where welfare is offered to those who find themselves unemployed and employment levels are at a record high the very thought of a woman selling herself in such a way is quite enigmatic. What then is the cause for such behaviour? Quite a puzzler, I am keen to know the reasons and will post as soon as I find some sort of answers.
This event got me thinking about the roots of such an ancient practice (no pun intended). Prostitution in the most plainest of terms is sex for money, and is an act that is as old as humans themselves. From my understanding, women are generally the ones who sell their bodies and men are GENERALLY the ones who pay for it. Perhaps I will display my ignorance on this topic, but my question is how can this continue to occur in a country like Australia and in a city like Brisbane? Prostitution seems to me the last option for a woman. In a country where welfare is offered to those who find themselves unemployed and employment levels are at a record high the very thought of a woman selling herself in such a way is quite enigmatic. What then is the cause for such behaviour? Quite a puzzler, I am keen to know the reasons and will post as soon as I find some sort of answers.
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Boredom?
the street is kent st by the way ;) even though im not for it, i guess for these women its an 'easy' way to make some better money to what they get in welfare or from the government, in some cases its drugs that make them do whatever they need to to get the money for their next fix, some know no different and don't see the moral issue just a way to make they're living, and others may be in other desperate measures that we may not understand either way even though i would never do that myself its hard to judge them when not having talked to anyone who has to try to understand where they are coming from... just a thought ;)
Im still reading up on it, but drug use seems to be one of the major reasons why women fall into such a lifestyle....hey there's one reason why drugs should not become legalised in the state: One vice leads to another...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/spanish/avconsole?redirect=fs.shtml&nbram=1&nbwm=1&ws_storyid=070608_esclavas&ws_pathtostory=http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/avnews/avfile/2007/06/&bbram=1&bbwm=1&prefs=1&lang=es
a long html but check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devadasi
seems to be a religious tradition turned into esclavitud sexual...
así como tu lucia no conozco mucho de ese mundo de ser prostituta,, aunque sí, recuerdo una vez cuando pasé por el parque bustamante y vi un par de mujer/hombres vendiendose.. no sabía que pensar ni como actuar. tantas veces en nuestra sociedad ponemos eses titulos de ¨lo malo¨ y ¨lo bueno¨ sin pensar en como alguien ha llegado tener este estilo de vida.
salaam
hey loca, i agree that lots of the times drugs are linked, but not always... lots turn to drugs after they begin prostituting themselves to "make the pain go away". one mistake commonly made is the consideration for the actual upbringing that they have gone through, which usually majorly contributes. things like getting sexually asaulted at a young age can cause a deep phsycological impact on a person. prostitution may also be to somebodey the better of 2 evils when they are faced with a choice in life, others dont see sex as such a big deal, just another service a person can provide.
where am i going with this? nowhere realy, just giving some of your narrow minded readers something more to think about. no one thing can be blamed. did the drugs lead her ro prostitution or prostitution to drugs? would she do what she does if there wasnt a market? (i.e. is it the buyers fault) which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Hey Kendall, I could not access your link, sorry!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6234620.stm
check it out kid :)
Okay, I have had a chance to read up on the issue of prostitution now and am willing to make a contribution to my own post! At the bottom of it, the reasons behind prostitution in Australia, and more particularly in a city like Brisbane is not a simple issue-nothing rarely is. In response to the post I posted initially a friend sent me a link that explained the reasons behind prostitution in Australia: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch5-1.html). The reasons behind female prostitution are extensive, like some of those of you who posted noted. Broken families, the use of drugs, and rape were all reasons behind its prevalence. Boredom, as Nick Fury noted, was not amongst that list. AS noted in the article, James (1979), Davis (1971) and Silbert (1982) have come to the conclusion that for girls under the age of 18, abuse is the leading contributor to prostitution. For women over the age of 18 however, the leading contributor is their economic circumstances.
Needless to say, the complexities of female prostitution in Brisbane compile to form a dense and in depth topic. There is a great deal to cover on the issue. For example, topics such as the trafficking of women from countries in Asia for the very purpose of sexual favours, is yet another reason for the prevalence of prostitution in our society. That, in itself is a completely different topic, one that also deserves our attention.
Thanks for your contributions, feel free to continue to post.
Kendall, I checked out the site you sent me, interesting! Its weird cause it constrasts with the article that I included in my last post. Prostitutes in Australia do not want to be seen as part of the bottom rung of a male dominated society. From my reading of the article, its the opposite in Argentina. Perhaps the reasons for prostitution are different in Argentina then in Australia?
Thanks Irene, U saved moi time, I was wondering which st was the one to go........u made my day (:---
Brisbane is an expensive city to live in, particularly high rent and rip-off prices for food etc. in australia. Welfare is $255 per week, which wouldn't even pay for most housing. Furthermore, prostitutes on "that" street in Fortitude Valley are either drug addicted (expensive habit) or under-age, which means they can't operate from a brothel.
I don't see street prostitution as a morally implicating issue from my point of view, as far as the prostitute is over 18, offering sexual favor for cash is just like the exchange of other services.
In fact, I reckon they should make 'safe zones' for street walkers rather than trying to box walkers and their clients.
There's also another spot, near kangaroo point (you probably know where that is)
I don't think people should always link prostitutes to drugs and early age abuse, that kind of thinking is rather discriminative from my view. People may simply want to earn money than just welfare so they can afford a better lifestyle.
Assuming each client would take up to 15 minute, the ones I met would offer full service for $100 (sorry if there's too much details), that's $400 an hour. Or let's say there aren't many clients, and the walker gets $100 an hour, that's still about four times more than working as a typist, office junior and most jobs out there.
On top of that, street walkers do not need to share their profits as the brothel prostitutes do. So if there are people who want to get licenced and work in a brothel, why wouldn't there be people who want to work on the street and keep that share for themselves?
That's lots of money, likely more than what we earn in one day's work, but from what I am seeing people are ruling lucrative income as one reason for prostituion. Most articles on internet and newspapers go straight to drug and violent history.
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maybe some people just like the work, did you ever consider that some wemon enjoy the work, the people and the money? Considering we have some of the ebst prostitution laws in the world, i consider our contry australia to be one step above the rest.. you should of pointed him in the direction of the local brothal, in Oz its legal for a prostitute to work without a pimp, once the hore gets a pimp then its illegal.
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well easy for us to judge all this woman until you get to know them you wont be able to judge them.How goverment realy fail on welfare system,and help for them.
I get to know 1 of the girl she have a child single mum of litte baby,she been abuse by her boyfriend so she living by her self ,welfare money not enough to raise a child specialy with all the price raise. as much of
she value her self,she have to sell her body to made end meets, and she have to do drugs to try to get high so she wont feel what happening.Her child is cum first before her she need to support and provide.as past experience she don't trust guys anymore. so till you meet them don't judge them.goverment need to provide help for all this woman,not to hassle,and being arrested cause that just turn them to run away and do more illeagal stuff.
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The gentleman who approached you from your original post was probably hoping you would say "Yes I know exactly where it is.' Nudge Nudge wink wink.
Many males are preprogrammed it seems , and the provocative clothing women wear, especially the young ones, make it easy for a gentleman (so to speak)in his worldliness to assume prostitute.
You can argue the womans side of course, it wont change the outcome until evolution has its way..Perhaps you can bend evolution though... Goodluck..
Ps thanks for the tip on Kent Street.
Where in kangaroo point???
Or, and im surprised you people didnt mention this before, they might LIKE sex.
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