Legalizing Prostitution
Argument in Favor of Legalizing Prostitution
Prostitution is defined as the engaging in, or agreeing to engage in, sexual conduct for a fee. Women are pushed into entering prostitution for many reasons including lack of education, poverty, and personal choice. Prostitution is currently illegal, but there is much controversy surrounding this issue. There are approximately 1.3 million prostitutes in the United States today. However, there is only an arrest figure of about 100,000 prostitutes in 1995, and the number of arrests has been fairly consistent since then. The General consensus has shown that law enforcement has been generally ineffective in the removal of prostitution from our society. There are many people involved in prostitution, …show more content…
If a woman or a man chooses to sell their own bodies to strangers, who are we to say they cannot do with their body as they wish? Women will continue to be prostitutes, whether it is legal or not. Legalizing it would provide prostitutes with a license. This license would require regular testing and minimize the possibility of transmitting diseases. Licensing also screens out criminals, addicts, the diseased, and the under aged. It would require and provide drug testing, medical checks and health education. Legitimate solicitation would replace pimps and organized crime. In Amsterdam, Holland, this procedure was tested and worked phenomenally. Spreading diseases was reduced and they set up ‘zones' where it was legal, and family oriented people who did not want this occurring in their neighborhood, chose not to live in those designated areas. This tight zoning eliminates insecure and unsafe areas due to the immense …show more content…
First of all, there are male prostitutes as well, they just don't make up the majority. There are so many things that give bad names to a variety of people, of course, some will say that it exploits women. Unfortunately, these people are narrow minded. If a person chooses to prostitute, they are not exploiting anyone but themselves.
For those who think that prostituting is immoral, this proves to be the least supported argument. There are so many things considered to be immoral by large numbers of people. Divorce is perceived to be an awful sin to the majority of Christians. Tattoos, pornography and legalizations of guns are just a few things considered immoral by much of society. Why then, if these are legal, should prostitution be any different?
Furthermore, consider the fact that pornography is legal, as is the adult film industry. How can it be that it is perfectly legal to be an ‘adult film actor/actress' and get paid for performing sexual acts and having it videotaped and selling it, but it is illegal to so the same, only excluding the videotape? There is no logic behind that
Prostitution is defined as the engaging in, or agreeing to engage in, sexual conduct for a fee. Women are pushed into entering prostitution for many reasons including lack of education, poverty, and personal choice. Prostitution is currently illegal, but there is much controversy surrounding this issue. There are approximately 1.3 million prostitutes in the United States today. However, there is only an arrest figure of about 100,000 prostitutes in 1995, and the number of arrests has been fairly consistent since then. The General consensus has shown that law enforcement has been generally ineffective in the removal of prostitution from our society. There are many people involved in prostitution, …show more content…
If a woman or a man chooses to sell their own bodies to strangers, who are we to say they cannot do with their body as they wish? Women will continue to be prostitutes, whether it is legal or not. Legalizing it would provide prostitutes with a license. This license would require regular testing and minimize the possibility of transmitting diseases. Licensing also screens out criminals, addicts, the diseased, and the under aged. It would require and provide drug testing, medical checks and health education. Legitimate solicitation would replace pimps and organized crime. In Amsterdam, Holland, this procedure was tested and worked phenomenally. Spreading diseases was reduced and they set up ‘zones' where it was legal, and family oriented people who did not want this occurring in their neighborhood, chose not to live in those designated areas. This tight zoning eliminates insecure and unsafe areas due to the immense …show more content…
First of all, there are male prostitutes as well, they just don't make up the majority. There are so many things that give bad names to a variety of people, of course, some will say that it exploits women. Unfortunately, these people are narrow minded. If a person chooses to prostitute, they are not exploiting anyone but themselves.
For those who think that prostituting is immoral, this proves to be the least supported argument. There are so many things considered to be immoral by large numbers of people. Divorce is perceived to be an awful sin to the majority of Christians. Tattoos, pornography and legalizations of guns are just a few things considered immoral by much of society. Why then, if these are legal, should prostitution be any different?
Furthermore, consider the fact that pornography is legal, as is the adult film industry. How can it be that it is perfectly legal to be an ‘adult film actor/actress' and get paid for performing sexual acts and having it videotaped and selling it, but it is illegal to so the same, only excluding the videotape? There is no logic behind that