Introduction
Sex industry is a commercial enterprise where sales and purchases of sexual activities are done. It includes prostitution and pornography which are sold and paid for.
Legalized and illegal sex work
Illegal sex workers make a sizable proportion of the vulnerable population. They are treated as criminals in the society unless their work is licensed. Mostly of them are targeted by police. Similarly, health inspectors ignore them when they need help. They mostly encounter problems ranging from police harassment to violence, rape, discrimination from the society to occupational risks.
Illegal sex workers encounter a myriad of problems some of which we discuss below. Because of police harassment, illegal sex workers keep on moving from one place to another to evade arrests. Their social network is thus unstable. They charge little for their services. They do not engage in long-term economic activities and planning. Illegal sex workers fear policemen who after arresting them, they harass and demand sexual favors to free them. They fear having with them condoms and often end up contracting diseases. They are unfairly treated unlike the legal sex workers. Furthermore, they are likely to be drug and alcohol addicts (Katsulis 81).
On the other hand legal sex workers are those individuals who have access to better health and working conditions. They have less fear towards their nature of work since their job is secured. The police do not harass them because their work is regulated and licensed (Katsulis 143). They have access to better health facilities as they regularly attend clinics.
Costs involved for those working in and for the sex industry
There is strike of skills from hands and people are robbed of meaning and purpose. More pressure is placed on women. Additionally, cases of violence are likely to occur. It affects development and economics of an individual especially when one contracts sexually transmitted disease like HIV/Aids. One ends up spending all the income on medical services and drugs (Miracle, Miracle and Baumeister 65).
At times, there are challenges in payment. An operator is required to have good relationship with a credit company especially when one is doing sex phone business. The problem arises when payment done by a particular credit charge is not done and credit companies become more reluctant to work with small businesses.
Profits and financial losses change according to public policy in that compensation is not provided for damages caused in the sex industry. The actual damages are compensated so that one who can claim for the loss or either injury or harm sustained during sex.
Profit of sex industry
All the above can either lead to one gaining or losing money. There are obscene profits being made. For instance one can incur low cost when using home phones for running sex phone business. This occurs especially when it is difficult for one to reach the non-customers. It is so shameful when friends or family find out the phone number is being used for such businesses.
Works cited
Katsulis, Yasmina, ‘‘Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Healthy and Safety’’, Las Vegas: University of Texas Press, 2008.
Miracle, Tina, Miracle, Andrew, and Baumeister, Roy, ‘‘Human Sexuality: Meeting Your Basic Needs’’, New York: Pearson Education Limited, 2002.