Modus Operandi by Mauro Corvasce (universal ebook reader txt) 📕

be readily missed. Prostitutes and the homeless are ideal victims. Most prostitutes are loners and have no real contact with family members or loved ones on a regular basis. Quick notification of the absence of these victims is uncommon.

Most serial killers follow a pattern because they are comfortable with it. They figure if it worked once, it will surely work again. The abductor will select a certain type of victim and will stay within that range. This range includes age, hair color, body type and area of abduction along with area of disposal, which will be a remote, desolate area. The abductor lures the victim into his vehicle and once inside, he will overpower and secure the victim. He may use duct tape, rope or hand cuffs and will also have some type of weapon on him. He may first sexually abuse the victim, then slowly torture, and finally kill. Some will kill their victims just for the pleasure of killing.

Apprehending Kidnappers

The chances of apprehension of a kidnapper seeking a reward, especially in the United States, is great. The apprehension will he made through the many contacts the kidnappers have to make to secure the delivery of their reward or when they attempt to retrieve the ransom. The arrest comes either at the location of the drop off to the kidnappers or the ransom carrier will be followed through surveillance, back to where the victim is located.

Kidnappers as ransom seekers, other than the Asian gangs, do not generally think through the consequences of their actions. In past kidnappings, almost all kidnappers were apprehended.

Prostitution has been defined by the law as the practice of offering your body indiscriminately for money or its equivalent. The President's Commission on Law Enforcement reports that there were over 50,000 arrests for prostitution and commercialized vice in 1985. In 1992, the figures were 76,400 arrests nationwide, which assumes that approximately 65,000 persons were engaged in such activity with a total yearly income of $322 million. Other studies have claimed that prostitution involves 100,000 to 500,000 men and women in the United States and that the profession itself grosses more than a billion dollars a year.

It is a simple fact of life that some people either prefer to or have to pay for sex, and as long as there are people willing to pay for it, there will be others willing to sell it. It is a classic case of supply and demand, just like any business.

Citizens complain that prostitution makes it impossible to carry on legitimate businesses in some parts of the cities. New Yorkers lament that prostitutes have caused a deterioration of Times Square; Hollywood merchants claim their area has become known as a hookers' paradise; officials everywhere point an accusing finger at court decisions that they say have made it almost impossible to control prostitution effectively. Boston has attempted to segregate vice areas of the city into red zones, while in Salt Lake City, police have taken to arresting the clients of prostitutes known as johns. In other cities cooperating news media publish the names of men picked up for soliciting prostitutes. Periodic vice raids are used to round up prostitutes in many cities, but in spite of these and other efforts, prostitution continues to flourish. Some officials have urged that prostitution be legalized as it is in Germany and other parts of Europe, which means not so much legalization as regulation. In the United States, Nevada has more or less adopted such a plan. But what works in Nevada might not work in other areas of the country, since those areas of the state where prostitution is legalized are very small towns, the inhabitants of which are fewer than those in a block of urban apartment buildings.

Today's brothel is likely to be right around the corner in the form of a massage parlor, a nude photo club, an escort service, dial-a-massage, a sauna house or some other thinly disguised market for sexual services. The motive for the prostitute's client appears to remain much the same: the craving for sexual variety, perverse gratification and intercourse free of entangling commitments. As for the prostitute herself, the evidence suggests that now, as in the past, her activity is voluntary, representing for some a considerable range of advantages including flexible work hours, contact with diverse people of power and influence, a heightened sense of activity, and the opportunity to make substantial sums of money.

A Brief History of Prostitution

In ancient Greece the lowest prostitutes were street walkers and brothel inmates. Far above both were the hetaerae, who were distinguished by being educated in the arts and by serving only the wealthy and powerful. They provided entertainment and intellectual companionship, as well as sexual gratification. The hetaerae, drawn from the population, compensated for the fact that wives and daughters were not permitted to entertain, go outside the home, or acquire an education. In fact, Demosthenes summed it up when he said, "Man has the hetaerae for erotic enjoyments, girlfriends for daily use, and wives to bring up children and to be faithful housewives."

Similarly, Japan until very recently had three classes of women outside of respectable family life: the joro in brothels, the jogoku or unlicensed prostitutes on the streets or in bath houses, and the geisha or dancing girls. Trained in dancing, singing and other methods of entertaining guests in tea houses, geisha girls were an indispensable adjunct to Japanese entertainment. However, not all of them were open to prostitution, and if they were, they were selective in their customers.

In modern society about all that is left of prostitution is the commercial form, in which one party uses sex for pleasure, the other for money. To tie intercourse to sheer pleasure is to divorce it from both reproduction and from any sentimental social relationship. This does not mean that people feel as strongly about prostitution as they do about thieves or arsonists. A recent survey conducted by McCall's magazine found that only 7 percent of the respondents