Online Prostitution Amidst Rapid Technology: Literature Legal Review
Maskuna (a∗), A Ilmar (b), Naswar (b), Achmad (c), Jessica Sutanto(d) d

(a) Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
(b) Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
(c) Consultation and Legal Aid Division, Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
(d) Assistant researcher Legal Study Program, Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia

Abstract

Objective: The study aims to calculate online (women) prostitution amidst rapid technology, including revolution 4.0.
Method: The research used the normative legal research, which is resulted from legal materials such as regulation, principle of law, and some related cases.
Results: The study indicates that prostitution workers have more than one mobile phone and/or more than one sim card. Increasingly, prostitution workers meet and conduct negotiations with clients online and meet at a mutually agreed venue, which could be the prostitution workers own venue, the clients home, or another venue such as a hotel.
Conclusion: The rapid development of technology has created a new mode of prostitution in the world today. Prostitution workers use technology to make it easier for them to find clients and avoid disclosure of the practice of prostitution which is certainly a crime.

Keywords: Online Prostitution, Technology.

Topic: Information, technology, and women