Does adult prostitution facilitate child prostitution?
According to the Preamble of the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others “prostitution and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and endanger the welfare of the individual, the family and the community.” A false distinction is sometimes drawn between adult prostitution and child prostitution. Clients of adult prostitution are moving to the young and the virgin for the fear of being infected with HIV/AIDS, and based upon this fact some argue that decriminalization of prostitution is better as of creating safe sex, so the clients no longer resort to children out of fear of being infected with HIV/AIDS from adult women in prostitution. According to this view prostitution should be legalized and brothels licensed. Studies shown that “the presence of pre-existing adult prostitution” market is a factor contributing to sexual exploitation of chi
