Ethics and Child Prostitution

Here we consider ethical arguments for and against prostitution. The other ethical question connected with prostitution, the boundary between gifts as a natural part of a loveful relation and prostitution, will be discussed separately. Prostitution without the consent of the child we also do not discuss here. It is outside of any ethical discussion, facts about such relations we collect in the prostitution directory. Thus, we consider here relations there the consent of the child is required and the child has the control over the money.

Remark at first that prostitution is not the ideal for the pedophile. It is only a bad substitute. Many pedophiles are strongly opposite to prostitution and will never make sex with prostitutes because of ethical and other reasons and arguments:

• There is no "real consent" of the child - it does not like the sex, it makes sex only for money.
• Sex for money is harmful for the child. A child prostitute becomes involved with drugs and criminality and ends in jail.
• Veneral diseases (AIDS) are more distributed among prostitutes.
• Sex with prostitutes is much more "dirty".
• Positive outcomes for the child often connected with other forms of pedosexual relation are possible for prostitution.
• The sexual reason: The lust of the child is too essential for the lust of the pedophile to make sex with a prostitute which does not really want to make sex.
• If you have to pay for having sex, that means to have sex with you is not desirable. Not very nice for your self-esteem.

But there are also pedophiles considering sex with prostitutes as a possibility for their sexual life, and they also have arguments. Like every other argument in favour of pedophilia, these arguments may be misused for (self-)justification by people doing wrong to children. But, on the other hand, simply to ignore these arguments is also hypocrisy:

• If the children don't have the possibility to make sex for money, they have to do things they dislike much more, or which are really much worse:
  • working in factories.
  • starving.
  • living in institutions.
  • living in a home/family there they are not welcome.
  • becoming criminal.
• A relation of a pedophile with a runaway boy may start as prostitution and later turn into a relation without money for sex, but giving the boy a home and education. At least, this may be the intention of the pedophile at the start of the relation.
• Getting money can show the child that sex with him it is really desirable, and can even increase his self-esteem.
• Among peers, to love to have sex with men may be forbidden, but to make it for monay not. Children which like it may use the fact of "getting money" as a justification.