Review article

PROSTITUTION AS A PSYCHIATRIC SITUATION: ETHICAL ASPECTS

Danijela Tiosavljević ; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Clinic for psychiatry, Belgrade, Serbia
Slavica Djukić-Dejanović ; Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia; Clinic for psychiatric diseases
Karel Turza ; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar Jovanović ; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Clinic for psychiatry, Belgrade, Serbia
Vida Jeremić ; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

This paper presents the morally controversial phenomenon of prostitution. As the basis for contemplating the prostitution issue
the most important is revealing and understanding its primitive ethical root. For understanding its "soul", its essence, also important
is comprehending sexual, "elementary thoughts" of mankind, through the relationship between prostitution and religious, social,
political and spiritual life, and its nature as a reflection of the sexual-ethical concepts in different epochs and nations.
We emphasize the connection between prostitution and psychiatry. Placing a special focus on importance of personality for
deciding to become a prostitute, and by pulling it through a moral prism we define prostitution as a new medical situation. In favor
of that, we stress the importance of the presence, position and role of psychiatrists within an indispensable multidisciplinary team,
which is complementary despite its heterogeneousness, synergistically and simultaneously dealing with psychological, physical and
social health-problems of women engaged in prostitution. We propose peer education as a way of promoting healthy and safer
behaviors among the subculture of prostitutes, where we see another important role of psychiatrists in selecting/recruiting, training
and motivating peer educators among them.

Keywords

ethics; prostitution; psychiatry; psychiatrist

Hrčak ID:

177078

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/177078

Publication date:

12.12.2016.

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