Online Prostitution Amidst Rapid Technology: Literature Legal Review

Abstract

The aim of this study is to calculate online (women) prostitution amidst rapid technology, including revolution 4.0. Method: The research method is normative legal research, which is resulted from legal materials such as regulation, the 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 worker’s own venue, the client’s home, or another venue such as a hotel.  Conclusion: The rapid development of technology has created a new model 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.