Sunday, August 30, 2009

Marriage And Sex Patterns :Sociological Approach

It is known by research as a global pattern that poverty forces women into sexual slavery as prostitutes. But they may never escape poverty and may well fall victims to AIDS, which is spreading rapidly in Africa and South East Asia.
In India, poor people like most of the world, favor the boys over girls. They perceive the girls as economic liability, because in poor societies most power and wealth falls in the hands of males. Therefore, parents prefer to have boys rather than girls. In addition, customs dictate that parents of the girl offer a dowry to the prospective husband family. Culturally, we may say that in the social structure, families with only boys are better off than families with girls. As consequence, in rural India and China and other Asian countries, there are high rates of sex-selective abortion through clinics.
In Thailand: the other related issue, is the number of prostitutes is mounting, for example, in Thailand alone, there is close to two million prostitutes, which constitutes 8% of the country's population. And almost half of them are under eighteen years of age. It is reported that 40% of them are infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
Prostitution and sex-slavery presented Thailand as the sex-tourism capital of the world. In some cases parents sell their daughters for others to raise them and later work as agents when girls approach their teenage years. In cities these girls became victims of pimps system to solicit them in bars or performing in sex shows, they fell in dept bondage that keeps them prisoners of the system where no escape.
For girls who managed to survive infancy, gender bias present over-whelming barriers. Generally speaking, in some nations like India and Thailand, parents provide girls with less food, education and medical services than the give boys. In time of drought or other economic crunch families leave girls to die out. I have read once that the invention of soap had served the young and old people to relax their sexual prone practices. And helped men and women to freely practice their urges for sexual operations.

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