FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROSTITUTIONS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA. CASE STUDY OF OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY, AGOIWOYE, AND TAI SOLARIN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, IJAGUN, IJEBU-ODE, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA. (GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Prostitution is said to have been in existence from time immemorial. It is one of the oldest professions in the world and it is referred to in the bible and ancient times like the Romans, Greek and Egyptian biblical times. Prostitution is the act of involving oneself in illicit sexual intercourse or relationship with an opposite sex, either for money making or for pleasure. It is the business or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment.
According to Misi (2008), prostitution is the use of one’s body for the purpose of remuneration or consideration of any form. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called “a prostitute” or “sex worker” (Wikipedia 2013). This definition agreed that there is indiscriminate sexual relationship involve in prostitution especially for monetary gains. Furthermore, observations made by researchers’ shows that prostitution has now become more lucrative in campuses or basically higher learning institutions. This is because; men no longer patronize brothels and street prostitutes. Rather, they prefer students.
It is mind blogging that the Nigerian society is fast dripping towards social backwardness. The idea of morality in Nigeria is fast losing its essence. It is often said that the ivory tower is the last stage of molding leaders of tomorrow, and if is such towers are now saturated with threats of prostitution and its consortium, and then the nation is in deep crisis. Prostitution has continuously been seen as a social problem for the society, especially in large patriarchal settings. In such societies, the women that practice prostitution are seen as immoral and blamed for the spread of HIV, based on the assumptions of the definition of women as carriers of sexually transmitted diseases, and the moralistic believe that sex is bad. AIDS is seen as a woman’s disease and as a prostitute’s disease and prostitutes however are seen as representatives of what is bad (McFadden 1992:189)
Olugbile (2008) wrote that, peer influence is everywhere on campus, where everyone wants to be like the others and end up prostituting. The bad girls that embrace prostitution gradually corrupt the more conservative ones. There is no tertiary institution that is immune of this crisis. Moreover, some universities are not helping matters. Their fees are so high that it is hard to understand where they expect the students to get the money from. Being in a precarious condition, they resort to prostitution based on the fact that they are looking for money to settle their school bills.
