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A woman who offers sexual services in exchange for payment is called a prostitute. This means that the prostitutes are engaged in prostitution, a name by which the activity of maintaining intimate relations with paying clients is known.

Prostitutes can perform their activity in different ways. There are women who manage independently, showing their bodies in different places to attract clients. Others work under the orders of a pimp.

Sometimes prostitutes work inside brothels. These venues have spaces where women dance or exhibit themselves to seduce men with whom, once the service has been agreed upon, they go to a private sector to have sex.

The labour and legal situation of prostitutes varies from country to country. In some European countries, prostitution is an activity recognized and regulated by the State: prostitutes must pay taxes and have social coverage.

In other countries, however, hiring the services of a prostitute is a crime, a matter that involves a virtual persecution of the prostitutes, even if they are not accused themselves. It is also common for pimping to be considered a crime.

It is important to note the difference between an adult woman who voluntarily becomes a prostitute and one who is forced into prostitution. In the first case, some find an act of freedom for the woman, even if her body appears to be turned into a commodity. In the second case, the prostitutes are victims of a trafficking network.

ProstitutionThe trafficking network is an activity that consists of profiting from the exploitation of persons, generally for sexual purposes, although it also includes forced labor, organ removal, and servitude. It is a perverse and complex part of society, which feeds on constant work and the combination of various forces to keep it going under a veil. This does not mean that it is not possible to see its presence in the street, but that those who could do something to eradicate it refuse to act, to keep their interests safe.

For an innocent person to go from leading a free life to being convicted of belonging to a trafficking network, there is a sequence of well-defined events that these organizations must accomplish with millimetric precision, to ensure that they erase as many traces as possible and carry out their twisted business without the risk of being discovered.