As reported in World Press Review, unemployment and poverty have driven more and more people to the cities, where many of the children end up involved in crime and prostitution.
+ 22 While engaging in all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and exposed, kicking about in your own blood.
On the other hand, Bahrain is a destination country for men and women subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution.
(1 Peter 2:22) He did not behave improperly even when a woman who was widely known as a sinner, perhaps a prostitute, “wept and started to wet his feet with her tears and she would wipe them off with the hair of her head.”
Notes one reference work: “After her husband’s death, normally a widow had to rely on her sons for support; if she had none, she might have to sell herself into slavery, resort to prostitution, or die.”
Just as a boss of organized crime might oversee many illegal operations —drugs, prostitution, theft, gambling, smuggling, and so forth— without personally revealing himself to all his underlings, so Satan uses an organization to control far more people than he could by himself alone.