The Reasons for prostitution in South Bohemia Region

The Bachelor{\crq}s thesis deals with prostitution issues in the South Bohemian region and its development through the secondary and content analysis of data gained from the Czech Republic police, from the Management of South Bohemia. The prostitution accompanies the humankind the all time of its being. It is possible to define it in this way: Everybody who has sex or carries out an activity for purpose of sexual satisfaction for a consideration or in order to gain certain advantage or interest, without emotional attitude and without regard to the choice of a partner, commits the prostitution. Before the year 1990 there was the prostitution in a latent form in the Czech Republic, as a part of shadow economy. The repression was the only form of its regulation, which went out from the Penal Law No. 140/1961 Coll. Article 203 on Sponging; on its basis the prostitutes who had no employment were inflicted. In 1990 the Offense Act No. 150/1991 Coll. was repealed due to the amendment of the Act No. 140/1961 Coll., the Act No. 175/1990 Coll., and the Article 203 of the Penal Law on Sponging. These legal acts are in addition to the opened borders, foreign tourism boom and stratification of Czech citizens in connection with the enormous extension of publicly and hidden practiced prostitution in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to inform the reader about general facts concerning the prostitution. Further it should point out the social-pathological aspect of the problem. During my writing I got from the available literature, other sources were dossiers from the Czech Republic police, the Management of South Bohemia and the invaluable experience of its executives. According to the gained and processed information the numbers of prostitutes are being reduced {--} the prostitution in the South Bohemian region is decreasing. The hypothesis was confirmed