A solution to the mistreatment may be, trying to definitively ban prostitution. Another more feasible solution includes establishing a register of prostitutes aimed to conduct regular medical checks and to informally encourage prostitutes and their customers, to use means of protection and to undergo medical examinations. The first two alternatives are often considered inadequate, or non sufficient. Prohibiting prostitution means that it would become an activity in secret, which would further increase the health problems, as well as the criminal rate. Another alternative would be to keep track of all of the prostitutes, which implies that the state is somewhat supporting prostitution, deeming the profession somewhat acceptable. Overall it would not solve the sanitary control of all those working in this profession because some will remain hidden. Consequently, many experts say this to be an issue that is subjective to time, place, community, and racial perspectives of all those …show more content…
Torture is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as punishing him… or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind"(Defining Torture). According to recent definitions, torture can be either a private event or one that is state-sponsored. Specific acts commonly executed against prostitutes are the same as those that define the meaning of torture: "verbal sexual harassment, forced nudity, rape, sexual mocking, physical sexual harassment such as groping, and not permitting basic hygiene"(Defining Turture). Pimps are found to psychologically disturb women in order to establish control over their lives. Those in control use "starvation, sleep deprivation, unexpected sexual violence, and learned helplessness" to ensure that the prostitutes will comply to their oftentime obscene demands(I Am). Looking back on Pollock's work of somewhat unconscious meaning we see that the prostitutes dive head first into the unknown pool of dangerous