Trafficking of people like Efe is now considered the fastest-growing criminal business in the world. But increasingly men and women are choosing to leave their homes to go to Europe and the Middle East to earn money through prostitution.

The financial rewards can make a big difference to people's lives.

Would you sell your body to support your family back home? Is it a sacrifice worth making?

How would you feel about someone coming back home after years of making money through selling sex? Would you shun them or are attitudes to prostitution changing?

Comments from readers I attend a university here in the US with a young lady from Togo who makes money through prostitution though it is illegal here. She is a stripper, but she gets picked up by guys after her session is done.

The money to her makes a great deal of difference since she is able to pay for her college, take care of herself and send some money back to her folks in Togo. She told me that she does not like it, but that is the only option she has.

Prostitution is legal in France, the Netherlands and Germany. If it can be accepted in society like these, why can't it be honoured as such to be a source of employment?

I would do it if it meant my only way to survive. It's the survival of the fittest and this is one way to survive.

Reinford Mwangonde, USA

No, I would not sell my body for any reason, because I believe strongly that there always other options to pursue. However, I understand very well the plight of a lot of young ladies who get involved in this practice. A lot of them have been misled by people they trusted and a lot of them go into this very well aware of the danger involved.

My honest advice to young girls is that hard work never killed anybody.

Lami, Nigeria

It is a human being's animal instinct to survive and live, not to fade and die.

To achieve that, a human would do whatever it can. Social pride, dignity status or whatever prostitution can take away from a human being, comes after. As the 'oldest' profession, prostitution is not the worst of sacrifices.

Killing is worse. Besides, some people do prostitution with some pleasure.

Gandalino Yalo, Angola

No one should sell her body. The only way to stop or reduce prostitution in the world is to fight poverty in the developing world.

Abdoulie Danso, New York
City, USA

This debate comes on at a time when Ghana is also debating if prostitution should be legalised or not. If you ask me, I will be conservative on this issue. It's like giving your own child the license to go and have sex to make money to feed on.

This is an abomination in most African cultures. I know the proponents argue that prostitution is a profession. But tell me, isn't cleaning a toilet for money a more descent occupation?

Benjamin Tetteh Piorgah, Ghana

It's all about survival. I would sell my body to support my family but that would be my last choice. Attitudes to prostitution are not changed.

Prostitution is for people who are trying to make fast money, who have no other choice than to sell their body and support themselves.

These people are not murderers, or rapists, they are the people who are trying to survive. And I think we should help them by educating and explaining to them about sexually transmitted diseases and how they can protect themselves.

And we must also make them feel part of the community.

Tewodros Kebede, Ethiopia