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How likely Prostitutes enter the proffession due to addictions
The aim of the research is to explore the attitudes, opinions and awareness that the public have towards Prostitution. This is because it is an ongoing concern not only in Britain but around the world. This is something that society feels strongly about and have mixed opinions towards this issue.
The literature shows that other countries had attempted to legalise and provide help and assistance to prostitutes.
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37% of our respondents first heard of the term prostitution through the media. This has supported some of our background research which gave us a number of photos, webpage articles, newspaper articles and videos.
Next was 32% who thought that the government should legalise prostitution. By doing this it will enable to industry to be monitored, kept safe and more importantly TAXED.
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The final 23% came from 22% Do nothing and 1% don’t know.
31% said that “it was most likely that women enter the profession due to addictions”. For example to pay for drugs, only 7.6% said that it was unlikely for the reason to the case; this therefore shows that it was the majority of the respondents believe addictions are the main reason to enter the profession.
Is Prostitution an Immoral Act? 40
How likely Prostitutes enter the profession due to Power
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This graph shows on a scale of 1 – 10 how comfortable people are with the term prostitution. As you can see 21 people feel very comfortable with the term.
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Only 1 person was very uncomfortable, this shows that throughout the generations Prostitution has become more acceptable.
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46% respondents said that they either strongly agreed or agreed. Respondents said the reasons why they agreed with this statement was because they believe that men that sleep with prostitutes are often married, women are often forced against their will and gives a bad image for women and make men think they are worthless. “Sex is meant to be private and between a couple not just something that is done to get money no one should have to sell themselves for money!”
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This shows respondents opinions as to whether prostitution is a female only problem, because In advertising and websites to do with prostitution its always the women that are the face of the issue. However 88% of our respondents either disagreed or strongly disagreed to the above statement. This shows that the majority of our respondents do not feel that it is a female only problem. All respondents said that that there were also male prostitutes but there are just not as many. However it was interesting that no one mentioned that actually if a man is paying for a prostitute then he is immediately implicated and effects him as well.
This shows that the respondents are aware of prostitution but underestimate the scale of it in Britain.
2. Gender * 9.1. Prostitution is an immoral act Crosstabulation Count
45.7% of Males agreed that Prostitution was an immoral act.
9.1. Prostitution is an immoral act Strongly Strongly agree Agree Disagree Disagree
Count What do you think the annual earning of a Prostitute is?
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Only 9.7% of people answered that the average annual income of a prostitute is £100,000 of which 87.5% were 18- 21. From our research we found lots of different results, but came to the conclusion that this was the right figure as there are high end prostitutes that earn up to £3,000 a day compared to street prostitutes who only earn £15 for half an hour. 42.7% answered that prostitutes only earn £20,000- £40,000 suggesting that our respondents are mainly aware of street prostitutes and not fully aware of the industry as a whole.
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4% said Power was the most influential factor The research shows that the younger generation obviously feel that Power doesn't factor in to the reasons.
From analysing the data of our research it shows that students do not comprehend the issue of how large an industry it is; it could now also be seen as a “profession”.
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Most of our respondents were students, so the research shows that they under estimate the average annual income of a Prostitute which is £100,000 a year, tax free and they also didn't know how many Prostitutes are living and working in the UK, the respondents thought that there was 21—40 thousand and there is actually 61,000.
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Our research has showed us that the younger generation aged 18—21 that are students are on average very comfortable with the term “Prostitution” this shows that they have had more exposure via education and the media than the older generations.
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The final 2% told us they had no opinion.
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“sometimes people have no other option, prostitution is the oldest profession and a way of life for some people as long as it does not harm anyone then there shouldn't be an issue.”
Count How many Prostitutes do you think there are living in Britain?
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24% said Power was the least likely decision
However 52% said that they either strongly disagree or disagree. Their reasons for this were that it is the “persons choice if they want to have sex for money it’s their body and they can do what they want”
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From these cross tabulations it is clear that only 10.6% 18- 21 year olds correctly answered that 61,000- 80,00 prostitutes are living in Britain. 40% 22- 30 year olds correctly answered. 34% answered that 41,00060,000 prostitutes are currently living in Britain which was not far off as 61,000 prostitutes are currently living in Britain.
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The research showed that there are around 61,000 prostitutes living in Britain.
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Alternative H1 there is no association between Employment and agreeing whether the countries taxes should be paying to “aid and recover Prostitutes”
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Count ployment status? % within 16.1. aid and recover "Prostitutes"
Austin, Jon. 'Why Are British Students Turning To Prostitution While At University?'. mirror. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
% of Total Employed
Culbertson, Alix. 'Tens Of Thousands Of UK Students Turn To Prostitution And Sex Work To Pay Off Loans'. Express.co.uk. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
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Garratt, Guest. 'Is Prostitution Really Worth £5.7 Billion A Year? | Statslife'. Statslife.org.uk. N.p., 2014. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
% within 16.1. aid and recover "Prostitutes" % of Total
Londoncriminalsolicitors.co.uk,. 'Prostitution: Laws & Solicitors In UK'. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015. Total
Count % within 3. What is your employment status? % within 16.1. aid and recover "Prostitutes" % of Total
“Making the country aware of the risks that come with sex related crimes”
“Make it an offence to have sex with someone for another persons gain”
“Introduce closure powers for premises linked to sexual exploitation”
Having said that we have found the public want the government to deal with the issue but they do not want to pay for it through taxes. As they believe that there are more pressing issues for the government to deal with and it will not benefit the country and the profession will always exist legalised or not.
After discussing this as a group we concluded that next time we would choose a topic that isn't as controversial as “Prostitution” and with more literature readily available. This will also increase the demographic that will respond to our questionnaire.
Next time we would also manage our time, resources and effort better to enable us to produce a better piece of research with informed and supported information
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'A Review Of The Literature On Sex Workers And Social Exclusion'. UCL institute of health equity (2014): n. pag. Web.
From the research our respondents feel that the government should “Deal” with Prostitution by “Educating the younger generations with the risks of Prostitution”.
As a group we decided that we would work more on our survey to get it out quicker with better informed questions which in turn will give us more time to analyse and process our data.
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By having more responses and from a wider age of people across all ages we would have been able to come to a much better conclusion and compare generations of people rather than just our own student generation.
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3. What is your employment
The older respondents aged 31+ were less comfortable with the research topic this could be because they have had less exposure through the media and education. We also believe that “Prostitution” has had a lot more air-time through television programmes and music and has raised awareness. It could be said that it has now been accepted by British culture; and has expanded over the past 10 years.
62.8% of Females agreed that Prostitution was an immoral act
Null Hypothesis Ho there is an association between Employment and agreeing whether the countries taxes should be paying to “aid and recover Prostitutes”
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RT International,. 'Prostitution Ban Won’T Hit England, ‘Too Many Politicians’ Visit Sex Workers'. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
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From the research carried out to help create the questionnaire it told us that around 61, 000 prostitutes are operating in the UK and only 11 out of 83 respondents thought right. But 6 people over estimated and 66 people under estimated the number of prostitutes in the UK. This could be that they completely underestimate the industry and the number of people working within the industry .
Prostitution.procon.org,. 'Prostitution Procon.Org -- Should Prostitution Be Legal?'. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
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Popcenter.org,. 'Center For Problem-Oriented Policing | Problem Guides | Street Prostitution 2Nd. Ed.'. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
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43% of the employed respondents earn under £10,000 a year and 37% earn £11,000—£20,000 which means the majority of our respondents were not high earners.
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The graph above shows that 66% of the respondents were students and 34% were employed. No one that answered the questionnaire was un-employed.
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The government has currently got schemes in place, such as ugly mugs and dodgy punters. These aim to protect and improve the safety of sex workers and reduce the crimes that are committed against them. They do this by allowing sex workers to report incidents to the central national point if they don't feel comfortable going straight to the police. Undercover police men will then be sent into brothels to rescue them, provide with sexual health screening and counselling them. The government also has other schemes that they are considering bringing into place such as running campaigns aimed at sex buyers to raise awareness about trafficking for sexual exploitation, making it an offence for people to pay for sex with someone who is controlled for another person's gain and launching a national anti-kerb-crawling campaign and support forces in reducing street prostitution.
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45% said that the government should deal with prostitution.
The problem with media is that it is regularly biased and usually against prostitution and making it seem like a “female only issue.” If people have first found out about prostitution through the media they may begin to create a biased opinion of the topic.
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Number of respondents
There are currently 61,000 prostitutes living in Britain, even though this is considered to be a profession prostitution can cause a number of concerns for the economy and society. Such as reducing property value, people wanting to avoid the area, safety issues, public health concerns and police integrity. The prostitution profession is worth £5.7 billion a year, this figure came from the office of national statistics in May 2014 based on the assumptions that the average cost for a prostitute is £67, each prostitute has 25 clients per week and work 52 weeks per year. This would mean that the average annual income of a prostitute would be £100,000. However this figure is an average as there is a large variety in the earnings of prostitutes. Street prostitutes charge only £10- £15 for ten minutes where as high class escorts will charge £3,000 for a day.
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