Review of Bennetts' "The John Next Door"

In this article, women are viewed as the ultimate victim of prostitution and men are viewed as the source that flourishes such industry. In prostitution, women of all ages especially young ages are abused by the pimps and their customers. They face high risk of violence and social disrespect. Furthermore, they are viewed not as victims but the criminals and men mostly are able to escape from being accused of criminalizing women. The legalization of prostitution in few countries such as Sweden only adds on to the frequency of trafficking women and girls while criminalizing prostitution helps to curb such illegal action. Most of the prostitutes are forced to join the industry due to fraud, coercion and financial difficulties. Some of them grew up in bad conditions and have been abused all along. Such example would be T.O.M. Fortunately, efforts in reducing trafficking of women and girls and legal strictures on men who force women to sell their bodies have helped in increasing concern for the dignity and safety of prostitutes.
The article concludes that men have always treat women as object to satisfy their desires and such activity has been normalized in society through centuries of practices. Thus, in order to curb prostitutions and to reduce violence of men on women, not only women must participate in the movement to fight for the rights of prostitutes and theirs, men too have to put effort in breaking the long seen tradition.

This is the link for the original article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/07/17/the-growing-demand-for-prostitution.html