Legalizing Prostitution

Prostitution has always been an issue of mankind, even starting from the very beginning of civilization whether society likes it or not. It is an issue that is inescapable by any country; therefor it should be made legal in the United States because sex trade is never going to go away no matter how hard the law enforcement works to make the problem disappear. Having prostitution illegal only does harm to the sex worker because they are not protected by any legal system and are working in an underground market for very dangerous criminals in an unsafe environment. The facts are that with prostitution being illegal in the United States, the criminal acts behind the closed doors of the transactions lead to nothing good and does more harm than ever before in history. Law enforcement goes forward arresting more the
In Atlanta, Georgia alone, figures state that the illegal sex trade industry brings in two hundred and ninety million dollars yearly. The men or women, who control the prostitutes by giving them jobs, are called pimps, on the streets. Some of these, so called, pimps bring in thirty three thousand dollars in one week. Out of all the prostitutes in America today, two hundred and four were killed out of one hundred thousand in 2014. As being said, most of the prostitutes today have just graduated from high school and are minors. Eighty two percent of prostitutes have been assaulted and sixty eight percent have been raped before while making the illegal transaction. Another fact of illegal sex trade is that these prostitutes are eighteen times more likely to be murdered with prostitution being illegal