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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Rapid Population Growth
1,260 wordsContraceptives have been used for over a thousand years to allow people to have safe sex. The purpose for these products is to either prevent pregnancy, protect against sexually transmitted diseases, or both. The biggest problem surrounding this issue is the number of people who have no access to proper contraceptives. For a long time this hasnt been that much of an issue because the world population was not as large or increasing as quickly as it is now. However, overpopulation is becoming a pr...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex Industry
1,204 wordsHistorically, although prostitution has been viewed as a threat to the moral order and a danger to public health, the state has tended to legislate for the regulation of prostitution, rather than introducing measures focussed on its elimination. Even early Christian societies did not seek to eliminate prostitution, with the Church fathers justifying this stance by asserting that 'Sewers are necessary to guarantee the wholesomeness of palaces. ' (quoted by de Beauvoir, 1974, 618). St Augustine wa...
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South Wales Sex Workers
1,236 words... multiple studies cited by the New South Wales Parliament's Brothels Task Force documenting reduced rates of infection, including a 90 % decline in gonorrhoea rates among sex workers for the period 1981 - 1989 (cited in Brothels Task Force, 2001, 23). During the debate, unsubstantiated statistics were also sometimes produced literally out of thin air, as when an Australian industry spokesperson remarked during an interview that the number of brothels in Sydney had increased by 400 % since dec...
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Health And Safety Organised Crime
1,207 words... s resulted in a split, two-tiered sex industry evolving, with a tightly controlled legal sector operating alongside a large and often vulnerable illegal sector (Dobinson, 1992, cited in Sullivan, 1999). Thus one group of workers hold positions in the state-approved brothels, often claiming that they work in virtual slave-like conditions for the privilege of being 'state approved'. Those who cannot obtain employment in the licensed brothels work instead in the illicit underground sex industry...
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Health And Safety Task Force
1,239 words... 'very young, female, casually employed and thoroughly stigmatized by their work' (ibid. , 12). Five years after the Act was introduced, the New South Wales Attorney General and the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning established the Brothels Task Force. Its brief was to monitor the regulation of brothels by local councils and to assess the success of occupational health and safety programmes for sex workers, their clients and the public (Brothels Task Force, 2001). The Task Force was ask...
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Living With Hiv Infected With Hiv
1,292 words1. 1 Global situation of HIV/AIDS Since the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported in 1981, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has grown to pandemic proportions, resulting in an estimated 65 million infections and 25 million deaths (UNAIDS, CDC, 2006). During 2005 alone, an estimated 2. 8 million persons died from AIDS, 4. 1 million were newly infected with HIV, and 38. 6 million were living with HIV (UNAIDS, 2006). HIV continues to disproportionate...
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Christian Science Monitor Legalizing Prostitution
2,968 wordsOne of the oldest legal debates comes from one of the worlds oldest profession, prostitution, there is no denying that the sex industry has taken international dimensions and is recognized as an economic motor for many countries. As countries around the world debate the merits of legalizing or at least decriminalizing prostitution. The following questions should be addressed. Would legalization reduce some of the inequalities and abuse suffered by the women involved? On the other hand, by legiti...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases South East Asia
1,835 wordsProstitution- the world s oldest profession. Although this statement contains an element of truth, the effect of globalisation has seen the sale of women move from the sale of the individual woman s body to an organised and systematized global industry. Consequently, sex work, which has always been an issue of unequal gender relations, has arrived as one of the most profited international markets; may they be called go-go dancers, mail order brides, massage girls or prostitutes, they are in effe...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Illegal Prostitution
1,034 wordsGovernment Regulation of Prostitution is Key The question of whether prostitution should be legalized has been an extremely controversial issue over the past few years. Many people who oppose government regulation of prostitution claim that America? s morality is at stake. However, I disagree. Government regulation will only help solve this on going social problem that exists in society today. If prostitution is legalized, these sex workers will be less likely to spread sexually transmitted dise...
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