Women Do Not Have The Right To Be Prostitution

ABSTRACT The legal right to be free from torture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment is recognized by most nations and is internationally guaranteed. Women and children working in the sex industry are repeatedly subject to rape, violence, and sexually transmitted diseases. The current system of prosecuting and jailing these women has been ineffective in reducing the illegal activities. These issues can be addressed by legalizing and regulating the prostitution industry. By using Nevada where brothels are legal as a model for the rest of the country enforcing strict regulations can better protect those victimized by the industry.

Legalization of Prostitution
Prostitution is often referred to as
An article entitled “Women Do Not Have the Right to Be Prostitutes” claims “[Prostitution] violates the right to physical and moral integrity by the alienation of women 's sexuality that is appropriated, debased and turned into a thing to be bought and sold” (n.d., p. 2). This is the most controversial argument because people are very impassioned about their views on the subject. Tony Nassif, Founder and President of the Cedars Cultural and Educational Foundation writes in a heated letter on his website “The march of the perverse will continue unless people of logic, reason and moral common sense don 't take a stand and take action to resist the movement to legalize that which destroys the souls of those who practice it and is a vehicle to infect a nation and those who practice it” ("Would legal prostitution better protect prostitutes from violence?", n.d.). There are also several arguments to prove immorality that suggests a woman’s sexuality should be above a thing to be bought and sold. Feminist philosopher Alison Assiter feels that “To treat someone as merely a body for another 's use, without recognizing that she too is a subject with desires, is to treat someone as a slave, as a subhuman creature or object, and therefore violates her dignity as a human being” ("Women Do Not Have the Right to Be Prostitutes", n.d., p.p.4). While there are many
In most of the United States no one is regulating condom use for prostitution. In the report “Violence and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada” state law mandates that condom use is mandatory for all sexual encounters (Bentz & Hausbeck, 2005, p. 7). Not only are condoms mandatory but each woman who applies for work in a brothel must have blood tests and pap smears come back clean. They are tested every week thereafter. If they do come up positive for an STD or STI they are not allowed to work until she is treated, cured, and her physician reinstates her health card. If she tests positive for HIV she can no longer work as a legal brothel prostitute (Bentz & Hausbeck, 2005, p. 7). Compare these rigorous tests and standards of brothels to the alternative. Keep it illegal and encourage these women to allow themselves to be pressured into unsafe sex. Once again, the question remains, by keeping prostitution illegal who exactly is being