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During the era of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, prostitution was connected to slavery.The Islamic Law formally prohibited prostitution. However, since the principle of concubinage in Islam in Islamic Law allowed a man to have intercourse with his female slave, prostitution was practiced by a pimp selling his female slave on the slave market to a client, who was allowed to have intercourse ...
The Government of Turkey demonstrated strong anti-trafficking law enforcement and prosecutorial efforts during the reporting period. Article 80 of the Penal Code prohibits trafficking for both sexual exploitation and forced labor, and prescribes penalties of 10 to 15 years imprisonment, which are sufficiently stringent and commensurate with prescribed penalties for other grave crimes, such as ...
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modern human trafficking, specifically sexual slavery.Presented from a Christian worldview, Nefarious covers human trafficking in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating interviews with re-enactments.
Burns: The sex trafficking law made it a felony to have a place of prostitution. So if I went to my friend's house and engaged in prostitution there, she could be charged with a serious felony.
In most countries, even those where sex work is legal, sex workers of all kinds feel that they are stigmatized and marginalized and that this prevents them from seeking legal redress for discrimination (e.g., racial discrimination by a strip club owner, dismissal from a teaching position because of involvement in the sex industry), non-payment by a client, assault, or rape.
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Scholars attribute this gap between legal theory and practice to the difficulty of proving sexual misconduct, the incentives faced by the state to permit prostitution, and the ambiguity embedded in legal theory on prostitution, given its legal equivalence to the broader category of zinā (fornication). In regard to slaves, however, their owners ...
When some buyers learn the circumstances that brought a person to prostitution, they often decide not to purchase sex in the future. For the compulsive sex buyer, no amount of education will ...