Prostitution, Child Abuse and Homosexuality
Prostitution, Child Abuse and Homosexuality
Prostitution, Child Abuse and Homosexuality
Types of Prostitution
1. street prostitution
2. Brothels
Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution, often
confined to special red-light districts in big cities. Other names for brothels
include bordello, whorehouse, cathouse, knocking shop, and general houses.
Prostitution also occurs in some massage parlors, and in Asian countries in
some barber shops where sexual services may be offered as a secondary
function of the premises.
3. Escorts
Escort services may be distinguished from prostitution or other forms of
prostitution in that sexual activities are often not explicitly advertised as
necessarily included in these services; rather, payment is often noted as being
for an escort's time and companionship only, although there is often an implicit
assumption that sexual activities are expected.
In escort prostitution, the act takes place at the customer's residence or
hotel room (referred to as out-call), or at the escort's residence or in a hotel
room rented for the occasion by the escort (called in-call). The prostitute may be
independent or working under the auspices of an escort agency. Services may be
advertised over the Internet, in regional publications, or in local telephone
listings.
4. Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel for sexual intercourse with prostitutes or to engage
in other sexual activity. The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of
the United Nations defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the
tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks,
with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the
tourist with residents at the destination"
5. Virtual sex
Virtual sex, that is, sexual acts conveyed by messages rather than
physically, is also the subject of commercial transactions. Commercial phone
sex services have been available for decades. The advent of the Internet has
made other forms of virtual sex available for money, including computer-
mediated cybersex, in which sexual services are provided in text form by way
of chat rooms or instant messaging, or audio visually through a webcam.
Causes of Prostitution
Effects of prostitution:
2. Venereal infection
3. Social ostracism
Methods of Control:
CHILD ABUSE
Child Abuse refers to the willful infliction of pain and suffering on children
through physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment. The term child abuse normally
referred to only physical mistreatment, but since then its application has expanded to
include, in addition to inordinate physical violence, unjustifiable verbal abuse; the failure
to furnish proper shelter, nourishment, medical treatment, or emotional support; incest
and other cases of sexual molestation or rape; and the use of children in prostitution or
pornography (Encyclopedia Britannica). According to the World Health Organization
(WHO) child abuse and child maltreatment as "all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-
treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other
exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival,
development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.
1. Physical abuse –refers to the intentional use of physical force against the child
that results in – or has a high likelihood of resulting in – harm for the child's
health, survival, development or dignity. This includes hitting, beating, kicking,
shaking, biting, strangling, scalding, burning, poisoning and suffocating. Much
physical violence against children in the home is inflicted with the object of
punishing.
2. Sexual abuse (Child Sexual Abuse) - is a form of child abuse in which an adult or
older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Sexual abuse refers to the
participation of a child in a sexual act aimed toward the physical gratification or
the financial profit of the person committing the act. Forms of CSA include asking
or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome),
indecent exposure of the genitals to a child, displaying pornography to a child,
actual sexual contact with a child, physical contact with the child's genitals,
viewing of the child's genitalia without physical contact, or using a child to
produce child pornography. Selling the sexual services of children may be viewed
and treated as child abuse with services offered to the child rather than simple
incarceration.
4. Neglect - the failure of a parent or other person with responsibility for the child
to provide needed food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision to the
degree that the child's health, safety or well-being may be threatened with harm.
Neglect is also a lack of attention from the people surrounding a child, and the
non-provision of the relevant and adequate necessities for the child's survival,
which would be a lacking in attention, love, and nurture.
Child abuse can result in immediate adverse physical effects but it is also strongly
associated with developmental problems and with many chronic physical and
psychological effects, including subsequent ill-health, including higher rates of chronic
conditions, high-risk health behaviors and shortened lifespan
1. Emotional
Child abuse can cause a range of emotional effects. Children who are constantly
ignored, shamed, terrorized or humiliated suffer at least as much, if not more,
than if they are physically assaulted. Abused children can grow up experiencing
insecurities, low self-esteem, and lack of development. Many abused children
experience ongoing difficulties with trust, social withdrawal, trouble in school,
and forming relationships
2. Physical
The long-term impact of child abuse and neglect on physical health and
development can be:
Shaken baby syndrome. Shaking a baby is a common form of child abuse that
often results in permanent neurological damage (80% of cases) or death (30%
of cases). Damage results from intracranial hypertension (increased pressure in
the skull) after bleeding in the brain, damage to the spinal cord and neck, and
rib or bone fractures.
Impaired brain development. Child abuse and neglect have been shown, in some
cases, to cause important regions of the brain to fail to form or grow properly,
resulting in impaired development. These alterations in brain maturation have
long-term consequences for cognitive, language, and academic abilities.
Poor physical health. In addition to possible immediate adverse physical effects,
household dysfunction and childhood maltreatment are strongly associated with
many chronic physical and psychological effects, including subsequent ill-health
in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, with higher rates of chronic conditions,
high-risk health behaviors and shortened lifespan. Adults who experienced abuse
or neglect during childhood are more likely to suffer from physical ailments such
as allergies, arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, high blood pressure, and ulcers. There
may be a higher risk of developing cancer later in life, as well as possible
immune dysfunction.
Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with shortened telomeres
and with reduced telomerase activity. The increased rate of telomere length
reduction correlates to a reduction in lifespan of 7 to 15 years
3. Psychological
HOMOSEXUALITY
Homosexuality (from Ancient Greek ὁμός, meaning "same", and Latin sexus,
meaning "sex") is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between
members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an
enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the
same sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions,
related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those
attractions (Wikipedia). According to Britannica Encyclopedia, it is the sexual interest in
and attraction to members of one's own sex. The term gay is frequently used as a
synonym for homosexual; female homosexuality is often referred to as lesbianism.
Causes of Homosexuality
1. Biblical explanation
a. Nature of man
Certain negative physical effects of sin are also seen as being progressive,
as with time more diseases and other aberrations seemed to have occurred, and
laws against incest later became necessary. In addition, as men continued to act
contrary to the basic moral laws which they knew innately and through creation,
conscience and oral tradition, a formal body of law was given through Moses,
which detailed and codified the immutable morality God enjoins upon man. (Ex.
20; Dt. 4:8,9; Lv. 18; Gal. 3:19) Addition laws include ceremonial laws which the
New Testament reveals were typological. For more information please see:
Leviticus 18.
The Bible, as well as history, also evidences that while there are three
areas in which man sins, those of lust for pleasure, possessions and power, (1Jn.
2:16) individuals may differ as regards which type of sins present the greatest
temptation for them, with genetics playing at least a part in that. That judgment
upon a people who gave into a specific sin could result in a genetic predisposition
to that same sin among their offspring may be speculated, but it is not proven.
b. Environment
In Ezekiel 16:49 the general iniquity of Sodom and its "sisters" is given as
"pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness" and general indifference to
the needy. The next verse proceeds to inform that "the Sodomites were haughty,
and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw
good." The word for abomination here is tô‛êbah, which is not the word often
used for ritual uncleanness, but is often used for sexual sin, in particular sexual
sins and including sodomy. (Lv.18:22; 26-27,29,30; 20:13; Dt. 23:18; 24:4 1Ki.
14:24; Ezek. 22:11; 33:26) Sodom is also associated more with sexual sins than
with any other physical type of sin.
In Romans 1, God, through the apostle Paul, condemns both male and
female homoeroticism, which, as a cultural practice, is shown to be a
manifestation and a result of idolatry, in which man progressively acted contrary
to that which God has revealed by creation, by design and normality. This is
morality which is confirmed by written decree (the Law), as the next chapter
declares. As a result of this continued rebellion, which was partly manifest in God
being reduced to an image like unto corruptible creatures (like as today with
homosexuals construing Christ to be homosexual, or sanctioning it, as well as
nature effectively being worshiped), "God gave them up to uncleanness through
the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves." (v. 24)
b. Sexual abuse
c. Educational indoctrination
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Feeling incongruent with what a man believes his gender requires may
create a psychologically unstable situation, resulting in the unconscious mind
compensating through fixations or attractions toward males and masculinity.
e. Sexual Conditioning
Sexual desire can be conditioned through pairing specific stimuli with
sexual arousal. Male-on-male sexual abuse and early exposure to male
pornography may create or intensify homosexual arousal for some boys.
f. Sexual Abuse
TYPES OF HOMOSEXUALS