YEREVAN. – Prostitution and pimping are flourishing in Armenia, because this is convenient for those agencies whose job it is to prevent this phenomenon, capital city Yerevan’s Puppet Theater Artistic Director Ruben Babayan said during a press conference on Tuesday.  

“The prostitutes’ profits are shared on the 50/50 principle. And if they claim that the body is a person’s property and the person can do whatever he/she pleases with his/her body and provides services [with it], this service must be taxed and the service-providing product must be examined,” stated Babayan.

In addition, Ruben Babayan maintained that if the prostitutes’ services are taxed, they can be transferred outside Yerevan, just like it was in the case of the casinos.    

“English scientists have proven that having sex without love damages the health. So, going to the prostitutes solves no problem and makes it worst,” he said.  

In his turn, Yerevan Council of Elders member, architect Levon Igityan noted:

“Latter half of the 20th century and the 21st century are most disgusting centuries in the history of humanity, because human values are distorted completely.”  

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