Prostitution (from Latin per stituere per and statuere - forward place, to look place, abandon, in latin literature usually with negative Konnotation used) designates the Vornahme of sexual actions against payment.

The prostitution as a freiwilliger profession is called also Sexarbeit or sexual service, contrary to obligation prostitution.

The kind of the practice of the prostitution hardly changed in the course of the time. Prostitution is to be found in practically each culture. The social evaluation of the prostitution is underlaid for a strong change against it.

History of the prostitution in culture and society

Antique one

Already in the antiquity, so in Babylon, the temple prostitution in such a way specified existed more than 3000 years ago. Temple slaves carried out there sexual actions approximately "gifts ". This stood however in a ritual connection and was considered as the Gods probably-obligingly/pleasingly. For the time the Greek antique one is thus testified without sakralen background, prostitutes in the today's sense. The Greeks differentiated clearly between the usual "Hure" (Porna) and the "Gesellin" Also the campaigns Alexanders of the large one were accompanied by numerous prostitutes. Prostitution gave it both from men and from women, but both with the Greeks, as well as with the Romans, only to men the demand prostitutes of both kinds of sex was entitled.

See also the major item: Prostitution in the antique one.

Prostitution in the Middle Ages

Prostitutes were called in the Middle Ages "prostibilis", which offer "itself for sale" is called. These as well as further terms as "prostibulum" (Dirne, brothel) or "prostituta" (Dirne) arose in accordance with the encyclopedia of the Middle Ages in the early modern times.

Details in the major item: Prostitution in the Middle Ages.

Modern times industrialization beginning

Because of the population growth of the industriellen revolution the number of the prostitutes took in particular in 19. Century too. A ever more largely becoming portion of the urban population lived in poverty. Were particularly affected by it women, who had mostly just small training and for who frequently only activities stood openly, in those it slight salaries earned. Among the opportunity prostitutes housemaids, Modistinnen, flower women ranked and scrubber inside, who had to up-improve in this way their content. Some women were only by the prostitution able to make sufficiently money for their living costs. Ever more states turned into to adjust the prostitution legally. Such an adjustment, justified by intended social, health-political or also moral control, practically not possibly made it for the prostitutes to escape from its environment. Regimentation cemented also the sexual double moral, which outlawed prostitutes socially, the prostitution however at the same time as an evil or a desired test field necessary for men regarded. Many women of the central layer resisted this double moral. Josephine Butler was a decided Great Britain, which stated the fight of the Ladies' national organization against the Contagious Disease Acts. This campaign, which saw guilty ones" less in prostitutes "than the victims of male "changed [...] the political landscape [of Great Britain of the time]. With the campaign social and sexual conventions were analyzed, which were publicly discussed never before. The campaign radicalized numerous women, hardened it off opposite public attacks and slandering and created an infrastructure of the political protest". (Philipps, P. 86) 1886 the abolishment of the decrees, which prostitute made the victim of national arbitrariness finally, reached you. Comparisons also the major item Contagious Disease Acts.

In the art outgoing 19. Century was to be observed a clear evaluation change of the prostitution: "Representatives of the naturalistischen school such as Richard Dehmel, max Dauthendey, Otto Erich hard life, Otto Julius beer tree and Karl remain-faithfully dedicated themselves to the release of the woman from moral conventions, the free love and the increase of the prostitutes to "venus vulgivaga" in a way to call those rather as political were." (Gordon A. Craig). Similarly it behaved with Friedrich Nietz. The only contemporary social group, which the philosopher clarified, seems to have been those the prostitutes.

20. Century

During the IITH world war by the armed forces and the SS hundreds of armed forces brothels were furnished. Women, who were infected with this form of the hard labour with sex diseases, were murdered in extermination camps or by Exekutionen. In the concentration camps there were own camp brothels. It was to be furnished however at all war parties usually war brothels. , Mostly Chineses and Korean inside, something similar threatened euphemistisch the "comfort women" so mentioned by the Japanese Besetzern Eastern Asia.

Also in the GDR the MfS (the "state security service" so mentioned by the vernacular) availed itself - officially since 1968 under punishment standing - of the prostitution to the acquisition of information over the "class enemy". The prostitution one did not only wait, but one promoted even by training courses. Both male and female prostitutes were used. The public security of the GDR called this kind of the employment "woman-specific use". With information about sexual deviations of the "goal persons" (suitors) Dissidenten became extortable. Main places of work with west visitors were the Intershops, the Leipziger fair, as well as international congresses and meetings and associated foreign exchange hotels. Admits became in the public above all the "method Romeo" of the GDR foreign clearing-up HV A. the task so mentioned "Romeos" existed for the early 1960er years to win secretaries of West German politicians by illusion of love for itself (state security service jargon "intimately cares for"), to make emotional dependent or "purposefully intelligence-wise" the light even marry. The often single and lonely women, who were selected before by East German expert, passing on without knowledge of the actual client secret documents of their work area to its lovers. In the jargon the state security service the term became "Ficken for the native country" a winged word for these employments (see also marriage fraud). The women the origin of their partners from other states than the GDR was partly pretended "under strange flag". Departure-willing women from the GDR, who wanted to escape from the state by marriage, were likewise held back by the so-called Romeos (state security service jargon (mirrors, 4 January 2004). Well-known persons with frequently changing sexual intercourse were officially registered under the abbreviation "HWG".

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