Many women earn all or part of their living as sex workers or in other areas of the sex industry, including pornography, nude dancing, telephone sex, and computer pornography. Sex workers are women at work, supporting children as single parents, trying to save money, trying to survive in an economical job market that underpays women at every economic level. (Shaver, 1996). Although most people stereotype prostitutes as fallen women, drug addicts, or disease carriers, in reality they are not. A contract entered by a prostitute and her client is a private exchange between two individuals. So why is this crimina

The Internet industry needs the sex industry just as much as the sex industry needs the Internet industry, if not more. Computer industry advisors have given the advice to new entrepreneurs to use the sex industry sites as their guide. It is said that Web pornographers are the most creative entrepreneurs on the Internet. (Hughes, 1999). The necessary elements for the sex industry to sell over the Internet are privacy, security and past payments which the sex industry established first. One of the most successful things about the sex industry on the Internet is the privacy it gives men that want to be secretive about their exploitation of women. (Hughes, 1998).

The main reasons for criminalizing prostitutes are for the protection of the prostitutes from exploitation by third parties and the protection of the public from the effects and exposure of prostitution. (Hughes, 1998). All forms of prostitution are criminalized under the Canada Criminal Code. However, in Canada this poses a catch twenty-two situation because practicing prostitution is not illegal, but living off the proceeds, communication for the purpose of prostitution, and running or owning a brothel house is illegal. In 1990 the Standing Committee on Justice recommended more laws when dealing with prostitutes, such as fingerprinting, photographing and taking away their driver's licence for those charged with communication for the purpose of prostitution. (Davidson, 1997). This was not a good idea because more action should be put on the clients that use the prostitutes services.

Economist. Giving the Customer What He Wants... Feb., 14. 1998.

Societies have tried numerous ways to deal with prostitution whether it is criminalization, decriminalization, regulation or some form of all the above. However the best way it has been dealt with so far is to hide it, make it seem invisible. This shows another problem, that before society can figure out a way to deal with it, they need to acknowledge it that it does exist. It is this hidden factor that has brought out the negative aspects that the community and the prostitutes have of themselves. (Davidson, 1997). This hidden society means that we do not have to look at it or deal with it because it is only a small fraction of our society. Since prostitution is hidden, it makes the prostitutes themselves have no way of being heard, since being hidden also means being not heard. This hidden factor has allowed the society to create separate rights and freedoms for prostitutes that are different from the rest of society. This has resulted in dangerous working conditions!

There are plenty forms of sexual exploitations found on the Internet, such as prostitution, sex tours, bride trafficking, pornography, live sex shows, and rape videos. Domination, control and violence are characteristic that embrace slavery by practicing prostitution and trafficking on the Internet. From the beginning the sex industry saw the potential that the Internet held, with the Internet praising and encouraging the sex industry to use it. In 1994, Netscape, an Internet web browser was launched with multimedia expertises and easy web access which the sex industry loved. A Personal Touch, the first prostitution business from Seattle, Washington arrived on the Net in September 1994. The Internet Business Journal said this site was the most significant Internet marketing change of 1994. (Bosley, 1995). By 1995, there were 200 businesses on the World Web selling "erotica services" and products. In 1997, the Playboy web page generated over US$2million in advertising r!

Pornography means the representation of erotic behaviour in books, pictures, statues or motion pictures that is intended to cause sexual excitement. (Britannica, 1999). Pornography has long been the target of moral and legal approval in the belief that it may cause to influence and corrupt minors and adults and may be the cause of sexual crimes. (Britann

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