Just a week after Tehran’s police chief announced that there were only a 100 “street women” in Tehran, the head of Iran’s Sociology Association announced that the prostitution age in Iran had dropped by 8 to 10 years.
Dr. Gharai attributed this drop in age to such social issues as growth in the divorce rate, men’s desires for diversity, absence of resources for marriage, drug addiction, unemployment, etc, adding that the age of the bulk of prostitutes in Iran today ranges between 12 and 18 years. Reports of the latest research and statistics carried out by official media such as ILNA labor news agency confirm this trend.
Absence of Statistics
Hossein Sajedinia, Tehran’s chief of police, who claimed last week that there were only a hundred prostitutes in the city, had earlier said, “The police was ready to round up the street women within a week,” a claim that never materialized.
But a woman Majlis member Fateme Olya responded to the remarks of the police chief and said, “As a principle we trust these numbers, and therefore accept the view that it is not difficult to round up these individuals and the Majlis will provide assistance in this regard, and if they have been identified then there should be no reason for procrastination.”
Statistics from Iran’s Wellbeing Agency show that about 400 women are a…
