Culture and prostitution: a possible solution

Abstract

It goes without saying that the process of economic, political and social transformations of Cuba since 1959 have eliminated the grounds for the existence of prostitution. Cuban women benefited from political measures according to revolutionary principles which helped women study, work, health and social security. In the last few years prostitution has experiencede an increase because of the economic crisis due to American blocage (Helms-Burton law) and the declive of European socialism. It is necessary to think on this problem to soloe it. It is clear that the commercial relation prostitution means affect not only women but men who pay for such activity. There are other factors which affect the resurgence of prostitution value system and economic policies to deal with the economic situation since 1989. The construction of a paradigm of the transition towards a new social order that implicitly denied prostitution at the macrosocial level has had non-attended consequences. As far as Cuba shall confront the actual economic crisis which has greatly decreased her population life estandards, controls international tourism and recovery her key elements, prostitution sui generis well disappear. Cultural dimension is central to the Cuban case aprecially to the problem of women discrimination.