Prostitution is in the same word family as prostrate, which essentially means, “to lay down.” Essentially, prostitution has a similar meaning. For a price, a prostitute will lay down his or her wishes, desires, and sometimes mind and soul, in order to serve another. But the prostitute is more than this – she is the housewife who performs her marital duties in order to keep her family together,, the pool boy, the widow, the other woman or man. Here,, the prostitute will most often be referred to as “she,” but it should be noted that men employ women and men, as women employ men and women.
In the past, prostitution was acceptable in pagan societies. But the Christians, who inherited the Hebrew ideals about the perpetuation of the family, deemed all sex outside of marriage, for the purpose of procreation, deviant. As a result, the pagan philosophy of free sexuality was crushed and replaced with the fear of a vengeful God. It is considered as a deviant behavior because the intercourse is not within the confines of marriage, nor does it spring from love, and, in the prostitute’s case, it is not done for pleasure. Prostitution brings the man-made convention of economics into natural animal behavior. Setting economics aside, prostitution is sacrilege
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This development in the criminal law reflected and promoted new views of prostitutes as irredeemably deviant women. Having "fallen from virtue," the prostitute was considered permanently degenerate, and now capable of any crime.' Hence, female criminals were considered more vile than male offenders, since one violation was sufficient to lead to a life of crime. Thus, prostitution became ideologically linked to every form of corruption, crime, and vice. By this time prostitution was not simply another vice to be considered along with drunkenness, blasphemy, and others; but it is considered as the social