Qom may have become a prostitution hot spot due to the abundance of shrines. Young female runaways with no shelter come to the city knowing they can take refuge at holy sites by sleeping in rooms intended for pilgrims. They have no way of making a living, so after awhile they get involved with the sex trade. The city's young theological students and transient tourists form the main clientele.It is interesting to note how the sacred space in Qom is being used in a very unholy way. Yet, it is prime real estate if one thinks about it. People look like they have legitimate reasons to be going to the shrine. It is free to not only have a place to sleep at night but a place that many people travel through so the girls can find clientele very easily. In Tehran, they stand by traffic circles in the suburbs. Where they are advertising their services are notable, they are public spaces around the city in Qom or outside the city in Tehran. It makes sense in Tehran because of the fact that it is the capital and religious/political spheres are more concentrated there.
What makes this noteworthy is the fact that even though Iran tries to crack down on all terrible things and is proud of the pureness of the country, it is the young theological students that are taking out the women. The repression made them ironically go to holy public places to seek out immoral activity. While it doesn’t talk much of who and where the clients are, it does say something that no place can ever get rid of the oldest profession in the world.
I also find it sad that since the rules are so strict and the unemployment rate reported by Iran in 2008 is 12.5% (probably higher) that women cannot find jobs. They need a means of living and have to turn to this as an option. The British Journal of Verneal Diseases said that Chlamydia was at common in Tehran and a city called Bandar Abbas.
The results indicate that in Iran prostitutes are commonly infected with C trachomatis and are probably a major reservoir of chlamydial genital infection.If someone is picking up hookers in Tehran, it wouldn't be before long until it spread in other places.
The prostitutes there are very modest and the transaction rather efficient. In other places such as the US, women will go after the men, drawing attention to themselves rather visibly. There is very little subtleness in various Western countries compared the Iranian women. Culture still affects interactions of prostitution in both cases.
