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	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 3, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prostitution is the sale of sexual services for money or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons.
		Most prostitutes are women offering their services to men.
		Male customers of prostitutes are known as johns in the United States or punters in the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/May_3,_2004 (113 words)

	Fast Facts about Prostitution at gURL
		Sacred prostitution has taken a variety of forms, but in Babylon, ancient historians report that each woman was expected to go to the temple of Aphrodite once in her lifetime to engage in sex with a foreigner as a sign of hospitality.
		Prostitution is a global phenomenon: Both male and female sex workers live in every part of the world and on every continent.
		Prostitution is currently illegal in the entire U.S. with one exception: It is legal in 10 of Nevada's 17 counties.
	www.gurl.com /findout/fastfacts/pages/0,,669353,00.html (578 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 3 Jul 2001 (pt 3)
		The argument arises about whether prostitution is a matter of displacement—about whether the minute it is dealt with in one part of the city, it moves to another part.
		Zones of tolerance on the continent are usually made in agreement with the prostitutes and the local authority, because the system of pimps does not exist there to the extent that it does here.
		It is important that we tackle both the problems to which prostitution can give rise—exploitation by pimps and the nuisance that the activity of sex workers and their clients can cause especially in residential areas—as my hon.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo010703/halltext/10703h03.htm (3525 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Message Boards: Archive through October 03, 2003
		What I see as disgraceful is you accusing her of being a prostitute when there is no evidence to substantiate your claim, and your belief is based on whether or not she fits your idea of a prostitute based on your "social" theories and not on her real life...
		Prostitution may be a crime, in a strictly juridic meaning, but in contrast to you I lay no values into this aspect.
		Prostitutes are also often home-less and are working under different names, which make them harder to identify, something that also makes it easier for a killer.
	www.casebook.org /forum/messages/4921/7749.html (5153 words)

	John (prostitution) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Johns from the United States to call themselves "'mongers" short for whoremonger word that has expanded from its meaning a pimp or bawd who dealt in as a fishmonger deals in fish to anyone keeping the company of whores..
		I would not recommend this book for someone looking for personal histories of prostitutes, johns, pimps, etc. To be honest, opening the book at almost any page, one is confronted with the most tedious 'sociological' jargon: tongue-twisting sentences, theo...
		One time when she was prostituting, the cops caught her and...
	www.freeglossary.com /Punter_(prostitution) (396 words)

	Thai Girls And Black Magic
		First off, I agree that any dumb ass punter who falls for the ridiculous lies of a bargirl and empties his wallet, or lets the bargirl shit all over him (as does Soi Dog, who appears to be suffering from the effects of a botched lobotomy) deserves every negative consequence of his missteps.
		I will fully concede that if the punter has a wife, then maybe the punter’s wife is the (often ignorant) victim, but this has NOTHING to do with the fact that the woman he is cheating on his wife with is a bargirl.
		Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession and it will continue to thrive as long as humans inhabit the Earth.
	www.stickmanbangkok.com /Reader/reader1513.htm (1873 words)

	Sex client - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The slang terms punter (UK) and john (North America) are used among both prostitutes and law enforcement.
		The term john may have originated from the customers' practice of giving their name as "John", a common name in English speaking countries, in an effort to maintain anonymity.
		A clipped form of whoremonger, this is a word that has altered from its meaning of a pimp or bawd, who deals in prostitutes as a fishmonger deals in fish, to include anyone keeping the company of prostitutes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_(prostitution) (217 words)

	Profession Prostitute
		These themes are highly relevant to this study of prostitution when we consider the growing risks to women working on and off street, and the shift in discourses about prostitution which focus upon the professionalisation of the prostitute, her needs, rights and human liberties.
		Prostitutes who were also feminists speaking at the 1st European Prostitutes Congress October 1991 spoke about the managed and controlled relationship they fostered with clients and the thrill and status their earning power gave them in society.
		Prostitution as work must be understood alongside the feminisation of poverty within the context of the re-structuring of national economies, unemployment and the growth of a new and poorer underclass.
	www.iswface.org /professionprost.html (5056 words)

	Guide to Punter Talk
		This is a guide to the terminology of heterosexual prostitution in the UK, with emphasis on terms and abbreviations used on the net and particularly on PunterNet.
		Redefining Prostitution as Sex Work for an overview of the laws (in England and Wales) pertaining to sex work.
		Usually means that the prostitute pisses over the client, or at least for the client to watch, but sometimes also the other way around (2-way watersports).
	uk-blonde.com /guide.html (1013 words)

	Limbicnutrition Weblog: The Government is attacking prostitution... [ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I am pleased the government are tacking on the massive problem of prostitution but I hope they are focusing on what might be described as involuntary prostitution rather than what I think ought to be legal and regulated - consenting...
		Prostitutes operating outside of the zones or without a permit face severe prison sentences (or other interventive custodial rehabilitation) as do their clients.
		In my view the problem is not call girls and voluntary prostitution that is the problem but the growing problem of sexual slavery and child prostitution (organised child rape for profit).
	www.limbicnutrition.com /blog/archives/025849.html (566 words)

	Warwick Boar - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Prostitution, the oldest of trades, may soon become legal in Scotland.
		A lot of prostitutes use their trade to fund drug addiction and supporters of the proposal claim that the number of working girls addicted to heroin has doubled since 1980.
		Witnesses to such crimes are rare from the fear of being named and shamed and the women do not have time to assess their anxious punters.
	www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk /boar?article=998 (1019 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Head Shop > Prostitution - the ethics of the punter
		Punter (and the sex trade worker) may take all the appropriate precautions to avoid catching disease, but simpy because of the association of promiscuous sex and disease he's still greatly reduced his pool of prospects, should word get out.
		Clearly prostitution was unacceptable, but to a large part of society use of a female prostitute by a man was considered perfectly reasonable if not something one generally discussed in mixed company.
		Prostitution is legal in Nevada, but there are no brothels (I am not sure what the most respectful term is, everybody I spoke to referred to them as whorehouses) in the larger cities.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/8786/from/35 (5224 words)

	Tim Worstall: Prostitution.
		But in the real world, prostitution is so despised that many sex-workers are forced into the trade, if not physically, but then by mental and economic desperation (so, except in the upper echelons, prostitution remains very exploitative indeed).
		But modern attitudes are so confused between a contempt for prostitutes as ‘whores’ and a sympathy for them as exploited women, that the government always seems to end up persecuting everyone involved in the trade (and I suspect the streetwalkers get the worst of it when they do).
		Dec 28, 2005 10:09:53 AM Prostitutes are mainly women, and women and non-white people are the raw material of those employed in the 'industries' most prone to the idiocies of political correctness.
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/12/prostitution.html (1111 words)

	Maggie O'Neill, Prostitute Women Now, in Scambler and Scambler [eds] Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in Britain ...
		The prostitute is perceived as immoral, a danger, a threat to `normal' femininity and, as a consequence suffers social exclusion, marginalisation and `whore stigma'.
		First, the prostitute as the putain "whose body smells bad"(210.) Second, the prostitute as the safety valve which "enables the social body to excrete the excess of seminal fluid that causes her stench and rots her" (211.) Third, the prostitute as putrid body and sewer is symbolically associated with the corpse, with death.
		Prostitution and violence, prostitution and the state, feminism, prostitution and the political economy and social organisation of prostitution (at a national as well as a European level), the management of female sexuality, sexual trafficking and tourism are central themes and concerns.
	www.staffs.ac.uk /schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/sociology/level3/prost2.htm (9594 words)

	Politics \| From working girl to job seeker
		The only thing Sam remembers about her first punter is that he was worth four £10 bags of heroin.
		With a white paper to reform prostitution laws due next month - it is expected to focus on new ways to help women out of the sex trade and break the vicious circle of drug addiction and prostitution - Whitehall is sure to be studying the scheme carefully.
		Bevan admits that the stigma of prostitution means prospective employers are not always told about a candidate's background when Reed encourages them to apply for a job.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4880968-110247,00.html (1101 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com :: Annex
		As there is an equal chance of a punter winning on player and banker in the long term and as the five percent commission is only levied on banker bets, the average results in a house advantage of 2.5% in favour of the house.
		In this trap, the punter is often lured unwittingly into a situation whereby he is ultimately conquered by his own weaknesses and the statistical behaviour of the gaming model.
		The longer a punter is engaged non-stop in a table game, the higher the probability that he will lose in accordance with the workings of the house advantage and the laws of statistics.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /cna/annex/050416_casinodragon.htm (5480 words)

	Nobody's Child
		Now, you are a punter, and you tell me the prostitute should be held full responsible for that because the punter pays.
		The punter and the prostitute have a child.
		In fact, many prostitutes are also mothers that were deserted by their Thai boyfriends and who decided to keep the Child nevertheless, and even became prostitute to support their child.
	www.stickmanbangkok.com /Reader/reader1254.htm (1436 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Real Story \| Parents' fight against pimping
		They are also united in their frustration with the authorities, who have often been unable to take action against those who lured their children into the sex industry.
		The Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (Crop), for whom Lisa is a case worker, was founded in 1996 by a woman whose 17-year-old daughter had been murdered by a "punter".
		Her mother had not known she was working the streets in the three weeks before her death, but had been battling for help to end the abusive relationship Fiona had endured since the age of 14.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/real_story/3700959.stm (572 words)

	Should prostitution be legalised? - Review - It is already legal :)
		Many prostitutes say they have been raped many times by their punters, sometimes by many men at the same time.
		All in all prostitutes are to be treated as the victims in this whole scenario, and the pimps and the punters are the "abusers".
		If this country was to legalise street prostitution, this would open this problem up to a far greater degree, swamping many streets with more victims - many of whom would be foreign, and with whom proving their age as being over 16 would be a difficult task.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/should-prostitution-be-legalised/143902 (965 words)

	SNOG! - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus
		prostitution, like drugs or alcohol, is something that is always going to be existant in society.
		Then it is important to educate the individuals that buy sex, try to remind them that these women are not all there by choice and to support those who aren't, and to be aware of sexual health and their own mortality.
		I am inclined to feel sorry for the ones that are sold into prostitution or have no other options and I wish there was something we could do for them, but I look down on those that don't have to sell their bodies to live a semi-decent life.
	www.flaming-monk.org /snog/viewthread.php?tid=2069&page=3 (2314 words)

	"The Monster Never Dies": An Analysis of the Gothic Double in Stephen King's Oeuvre \|\| Americana: The Journal ...
		Punter notes that since the public man must appear flawless, he must "hide" his private nature, to the extent of completely denying it (3).
		Punter maintains that they pose, from different angles, the same question appropriate to an age of imperial decline: how much can one lose—individually, socially, nationally—and still remain a man? (1).
		Stevenson had read W. Stead's series of articles on child prostitution and was aware that the demand for child prostitutes was being stimulated by the sadistic tastes of the Victorian gentlemen (Clemens 123).
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/spring_2003/strengell.htm (5331 words)

	PROSTITUTION: New Internationalist magazine 252
		The first agency didn’t stock photos of prostitutes on principle, because they were concerned about the exploitation angle.
		So they only stocked photos of prostitutes who were in a state of undress or otherwise clearly demarcated as prostitutes.
		Paulo Longo on being a prostitute and gay in Brazil.
	www.newint.org /issue252/contents.htm (444 words)

	IAFN Newletters: Families at the Frontiers of Faiths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Understand, having worked amongst young and adult women involved in street prostitution for three years, I have found it to be wholly abusive, exploitative and to exact an immense cost to those women who are involved in it.
		At any one time around 200 women will be working in street prostitution in Bristol – getting picked up from the street and giving sex in exchange for money, drugs, or a place to stay.
		The truth is that all of the women I met slid into prostitution without ever meaning to, and then found it almost impossible to climb out of the pit they were in.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /networks/iafn/newsletters/2005/trinity/uk.cfm (1220 words)

	John (prostitution) - Gurupedia
		A john (U.S.) or a punter (U.K.) is a male client of a
		prostitute, particularly in the case of street prostitution.
		Johns from the United States prefer to call themselves "'mongers", short for whoremonger, a word that has expanded from its meaning of a pimp or bawd, who dealt in whores as a fishmonger deals in fish, to include anyone keeping the company of whores..
	www.gurupedia.com /j/jo/johns.htm (123 words)

	What makes you happy ? » I’m no gambler
		If a parent is seeking information about cannabis and it’s legal status because they think their kids are using it, does that make them a “punter”.
		I’ve heard the same term being used in context with prostitution.
		punter is just general east end slang for someone who is buying goods.
	www.tamba2.org.uk /T2/archives/2006/01/18/im-no-gambler/trackback (292 words)

	Should prostitution be legalised? - Review - Street Walking
		Not only could you be mistaken for a prostitute and hassled by punters but also on occasion you would get funny looks from the prostitutes themselves presumably thinking that you were after their spot.
		I also assume it is a lot safer for both the prostitutes and their punters, as it is regulated the girls will have to submit to regular health checks and they have safety in numbers from any punter who is looking to cause them harm.
		In addition I assume that the government are able to take their slice of the cake in the form of the tax paid by the prostitutes whist the girls can carry out their trade knowing that they do not face the danger of arrest and imprisonment.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/should-prostitution-be-legalised/1014757 (497 words)

	Manchester City Council - Manchester prostitution forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Manchester Prostitution Forum is an interagency organisation set up to look at the wide social issues associated with prostitution.
		It is looking at initiatives to minimise the adverse effect of prostitution on areas of the city (particularly residential ones) to try to limit the danger to residents, visitors and sex workers and ultimately to help prostitutes to find ways out of the sex industry.
		Child Prostitution - to raise awareness of child prostitution and to raise awareness of multi-agency procedures.
	www.manchester.gov.uk /bestvalue/equality/women/forum.htm (277 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| Leading Lib Dem quits over sex scandal
		The married father of two daughters, who dropped out of the leadership contest only a few days ago after admitting that he did not have enough support from MPs, said the affair had been an 'error of judgment' and apologised for the embarrassment to his family.
		Last night friends said they were stunned at the revelations, including claims of three-in-a-bed sex and asking the prostitute to dress up in soccer kit.
		Although he did not say then what he did for a living, the man recognised him from the TV last February: once he admitted that he knew who Oaten was, the politician 'went white with shock' and left, never to return.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,,1692336,00.html (781 words)

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