Juvenile Prostitution

In simple terms, juvenile prostitution is the performance of a sex act for money or other needs such as food, shelter, protection or drugs. Accounts of women and men selling sex appear throughout recorded history. That is why prostitution is often referred to as the oldest "profession."

Just as there is a long history of prostitution, children have long been involved through force, seduction or voluntarily – in various aspects of the sex trade. For example, at one time in the United States s...