How on earth do I apply functionalism to prostitution?!?
Prostitution, like other crimes, is the easy way out. You don’t really want all women doing this for then there is no use for the family and you end up with children without a father influence which is sorta happening. Not good for the child to only see life in a one-sided aspect. Since marriage and long term relationships are the best for raising children, it has becomes needed for it to be considered a crime. Now, there are more women than men and men who seem to need more than one woman??? Anyway, it functions to provide for women with no other means of support and for men who….well that part is not really in my understanding.