prostitution
Let an agent describe prostitution neutrally as a social and legal phenomenon, relay the legal models, public health and rights positions of governments, international bodies and advocacy groups with attribution, separate consensual adult sex work from trafficking and child exploitation, and route people in danger or seeking help to support services first.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What the phenomenon is.
Concept
Definition and boundaries.
Concept
Concept.
- What is prostitution, and how do law and research distinguish it from trafficking and child exploitation? definition
- Is the user describing coercion, danger or a child, which must be routed to help or authorities first? boundary
Terms
Terminology.
Terms
Terms.
- Which terms do health, legal and rights bodies use, and why are they contested? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Law Legal models.
Models
Legal approaches.
Models
Models.
- What legal models exist, and which countries follow each, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking for legal advice on their situation, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Crimes
Trafficking and exploitation.
Crimes
Crimes.
- What do international and national law say about trafficking and exploitation of children? provenance
- Which entry fits human trafficking? action
Health and rights Health, safety and rights.
Health
Health services.
Health
Health.
- What guidance do WHO, UNAIDS and national bodies give on health services and harm reduction? provenance
- Which entry fits sexual health services? action
Support
Support and exit.
Support
Support.
- What support, exit and victim services exist, and how are they reached? action
- Is the user in immediate danger, which needs emergency services? boundary
Society Debate and study.
Debate
Policy debates.
Debate
Debate.
- What positions do governments, rights groups, feminist organisations and sex worker organisations hold, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Study
Research and history.
Study
Study.
- How do history, sociology and public health study the phenomenon, and which references are standard? provenance
- How should historical systems be described with attribution? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- prostitution of children, Ujana, child prostitution in France, decriminalizing sex work, military prostitute, Korean military comfort woman, virginity auction, female prostitution, One Floor One, male prostitution, Jineterismo, street prostitution
What it is Filled
The exchange of sexual services for money or goods, practised in many forms and settings and treated very differently by law across the world, from criminalisation of sale or purchase, to regulation and licensing, to decriminalisation; studied by public health, law, sociology and human rights bodies, and distinguished in law and policy from trafficking and from the sexual exploitation of children, which are crimes everywhere.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe prostitution neutrally as a social and legal phenomenon, relay the legal models, public health and rights positions of governments, international bodies and advocacy groups with attribution, separate consensual adult sex work from trafficking and child exploitation, and route people in danger or seeking help to support services first.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Commercial exchange, distinguished by law from coercion and trafficking
- Legal status varies by jurisdiction
- Public health and labour rights frameworks apply where legal
- Terminology is contested; sex work is used by many health and rights bodies
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Facilitate procurement, trafficking or the exploitation of anyone in sex work.
- Involve or depict minors in any way.
- Identify, expose or out a person as a sex worker.
- Advertise or arrange sexual services on anyone's behalf.
- Demean people who sell sex.
Only with a human decision
- Responding to signs of trafficking or a person in danger.
May
- Explain the legal approaches to prostitution in different jurisdictions, citing sources.
- Point people to health, legal and exit support services.
Moral aspects Filled
- Trafficking and coercion cause grave harm and often hide inside the trade.
- Sex workers face stigma, violence and exclusion from protection.
Who is affected
- Sex workers
- Trafficking victims
- Minors
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a social practice; national law and enforcement authorities set its legal status.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q19862406 - registry parent class
- Q2990601 - registry parent class
- Q7833728 - registry parent class
- Q859884 - registry parent class
related
- transactional sex - the broader category
- human trafficking - coercion and movement of persons is a crime everywhere
- criminal and labour law - legal model varies by country
- public health - health services and harm reduction
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.prostitution
- Wikidata: Q36633 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36633)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Exchange of sexual services for payment between adults
- Legal treatment varies: prohibition, regulation, decriminalisation
- Trafficking and sexual exploitation of children are crimes and separate entries
- Not a visible object; seen through legal, health and social records.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain legal models by country in general terms
- relay public health and rights positions with attribution
- separate the practice from trafficking and child exploitation
- route people in danger or seeking exit to support services
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Violence, coercion and trafficking
- Health risks and barriers to care
- Stigma and discrimination
- Agents giving legal advice or operational detail instead of routing
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National criminal, labour and licensing law, which differs by country
- UN Palermo Protocol on trafficking
- WHO and UNAIDS guidance on health services for sex workers
- Child protection law: sexual exploitation of children is a crime everywhere
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a social and economic practice.
- street-based and indoor settings
- brothel and licensed venue work where regulated
- independent and online-arranged work
- legal models: prohibition, partial criminalisation, regulation, decriminalisation
- historical and military-associated systems, studied as history
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q36633: prostitution - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Prostitution - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should legal models be separate entries by country?
- How should support services be linked by region?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming child prostitution and comfort women, which are crimes and history respectively; they should be reviewed and probably split off
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q36633/spec.json