Prostitution in Samoa is illegal [1] but is commonly practised. This equates to 1 in every of the adult women on the island. Prostitution is illegal in Samoa under the Crimes Act The provisions of the Crimes Act in relation to prostitution are: [8]. In the 19 th c, the fishing village of Apia grew into a port in which ships of many nations stopped. Prostitution grew in the harbour area to such an extent that in , Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "the white people of Apia lay in the worst squalor of degradation".
During the Second World War , the number of American troops on the island caused a large spike in prostitution. The United States Department of State reported that in there were no confirmed reports that the country was a source, destination, or transit country for victims of sex trafficking.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 8 February Travel the fire! Pacific Islands Report. Samoa Observer. Likou February Radio New Zealand News. Parliament of Samoa. Samoan Observer. Journal of the Polynesian Society. University of Chicago Press. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination. US Department of State. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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