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Prostitution and economic conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Hassan El-Saaty
Hassan El-Saaty*
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Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo
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In studying the problem of prostitution, the research worker is always aware of the fact that he is dealing, not with a single problem, but with a cluster of problems centered around the phenomenon of venal sexual gratification, and touching social life from different aspects-economic, medical, cultural, moral and penal. What makes the problem of prostitution all the more complicated is the fact that it owes its existence to one of the most fundamental urges in man. The sex urge is correctly described as a natural desire or an appetite. In general, “appetite” is associated in the public mind with the physical need for food or drink, and it follows therefore that the gratification of the sex appetite is comparable with the fundamentally necessary satisfaction of hunger and thirst. This conception furnishes the immediate background for the justification of the existence of prostitution in all societies through the ages. Therefore it has been rightly described as the oldest profession in the world.

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Première Partie: Doctrine: Lectures — Conférences
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1964 , pp. 117 - 127
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Copyright © 1964 International Society for Criminology

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References

(1) Mulk Raj Amand, quoted from Fernando HENRIQUES, Stews and Strumpets: A Survey of Prostitution, London, Macgibbon and Kee, 1961, vol. I, p. 140.

(2 et 3) Quoted from Gladys Mary HALL, Prostitution: A Survey and a Challenge, London, Williams and Norgate, 1933, p. 18.

(4) Hermann H. PLOSS. Max BARTELS et Paul BARTELS, Woman: An Historical Gynaecological and Anthropological Compendium, London, Heinemann, 1935, vol. II, p. 78.

(5) Quoted from Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 16.

(6) Gladys M. HALL, op. cit., p. 21.

(7) Ibid., p. 10.

(8) Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., pp. 21, 66, 173, 178.

(9) Ibid., p. 29-31.

(10) Ibid., p. 85.

(11) J. F. Embree, quoted from Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 314.

(12) Wayland YOUNG, «Sitting on a Fortune: The Prostitute in London,» Encounter, N° 68 (May, 1959), p. 19-31.

(13) Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., pp. 175, 345.

(14) Quoted by Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 118.

(15) Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., pp. 129-130.

(16) Ibid., p. 215.

(17) Ibid., p. 412.

(18) Ibid., pp. 230-231

(19) Ibid., pp. 67, 68.

(20) S.-N. SEN, The City of Calcutta: A Socio-Economic Survey, Calcutta, 1960, table 3, p. 88.

(21) The National Centre for Social and Criminological Research, (edr.), Prostitution in Cairo: A Social Survey and A Clinical Study, Cairo, Dar Al-Maarif, 1961, tables 19, 20, pp. 38, 39 (in Arabic).

(22) Wayland YOUNG, op. cit., p. 19.

(23) Gladys-M. HALL, op. cit., p. 86.

(24) Ione ACQAL, quoted from Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 384.

(25) Gladys-M. HALL, op. cit., p. 85.

(26) Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 237.

(27) Quoted from Gladys-M. HALL, op. cit., p. 84 ft. M.

(28) Herbert-A. BLOCH, Disorganization: Personal and Social, New York, Alfred Knopf, 1952, p. 400.

(29) Fernando HENRIQUES, op. cit., p. 398.

(30) Ibid., p. 401.

(31) Kingsley DAVIS. The Sociology of Prostitution, Am. Soc. Rev., 11 (Oct., 1937): 745-56, p. 754.