RELEVANT CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF INCRIMINATION AND EXCULPATION OF THE PROSTITUTION IN ROMANIA
RELEVANT CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF INCRIMINATION AND EXCULPATION OF THE PROSTITUTION IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Since always, prostitution has enjoyed a special attention from the people, being incriminated in the name of the Christian ethics and often by the laws of the different states of the world. Romania also took sides (either the one condemning this sin, or the one that, on the contrary, would have displayed tolerance and or would have been permissive in the matter of providing sexual favours on payment) according to certain historical periods. This study is the sequel of a previous one, being part of a project that aims to provide a full perspective of a phenomenon of such amplitude, an attempt to convey as valuable and as complete information as possible, about the prostitution, especially from a legal and institutional point of view. The legal, institutionalized practice of prostitution, within the boundaries of Romania, represents one of the distinct stages of the evolution of the Romanian society between the XIXth – XXth centuries. The previous study – Considerations regarding the practice of prostitution in Romania during the first half of the XXth century – dealt with documents and information pertaining to the norms regarding the practice of the oldest profession in the world in certain cities in Romania, in the beginning of the XXth century (Bucharest, Braila, Cluj and Constanta). This time, I will try to point out and to analyse the main factors pertaining to the incrimination and the exculpation of the practices of these vilified Venuses, as they are stipulated by the criminal law of a contemporary Romania. The farther we eloign from the period when the practice of paid sex was brought under regulations and institutionalized, one can observe an increase of the pimp’s or procurer’s role. This material shall be read according to the above mentioned information, concerning the more and more obvious connection of the prostitution to the human trafficking and, implicitly to the organized crime.

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