Review article
PROSTITUTION AS A SOCIALLY PATHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON WITH REFERENCE TO ELITE PROSTITUTION
Olgica Vulević
orcid.org/0009-0004-7542-3638
; Advisor at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
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Abstract
In this paper, the author discusses a number of important issues related to state control of the sex industry. The traditional understanding of prostitution as a crime without a victim has no justification because in each specific form, a personal or public good is injured or threatened where the individual becomes a victim . It is defined as the use of a human body (woman, man, child) as a commodity that is bought, sold, exchanged, not always for money, and includes occasional prostitution, street prostitution, brothels, developed prostitution, elite prostitution, pornography, etc. Prostitution is also understood as offering and giving one's body to another person for sexual
gratification while seeking or receiving compensation in money, other valuable things and property benefits in general. In addition to being a sociopathological phenomenon, it is also a criminogenic factor. Countries that have decided to regulate prostitution by law are Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and some Eastern European countries. The regulatory model treats prostitution as any work activity, and registering prostitutes and subjecting them to the obligation to pay taxes . More about the positive legal regulation of prostitution will be presented in this paper.
Keywords
Prostitution , legalization, exploitation, coercion, elite prostitution
Hrčak ID:
343969
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Publication date:
15.9.2022.
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