Vote totals:
Yes:
44%
No:
56%
Neutral:
0%
DEBATE: PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Safety of the parties involved
By regulating prostitution, the safety of all parties can be monitored. Sex workers would be screened for STIs and protected from potentially harmful clients. The clients would also get the same benefits, as can be proven by the system of legalized prostitution in parts of Nevada.
The opposition say that it would lead to the more vulnerable of society getting involved but the presupposes that all prostitution is harmful to women and that prostitutes’ voices are never credible when they defend prostitution as an alternative
Furthermore the fact that prostitutes are not on the whole well educated does not mean anything. Prostitutes often are undereducated and this means that their choices are far more limited, many would prefer to work in an industry where they make relatively decent money, can work child friendly hours and don’t come home physically destroyed. The alternatives often are labour heavy, hour intensive menial work which would not necessarily leave them happy or content.
Approximately 25% of prostitutess fare better than the average woman, 50% have similar experiences and 25% have experiences that can be described as nightmareish. However, if you look at this group they are already especially vulnerable and often illegal immigrants or drug dependent i.e. the ready-made victims of exploitation.
Promoting prostitution as a career choice would lead to people from more vulnerable sectors of society getting into it more readily than they otherwise would have.
Most prostitutes take hard drugs as the result of trying to escape what they have started. They then find that they must continue selling sex in order to pay for their next fix.
The fact that prostitutes are not, on the whole, happy, content, well-educated people should be proof enough that this is not the kind of work we should look fondly on.
Anyone entering this business would, undoubtedly, require a lot of counselling to undo the emotional damage caused by selling sex to strangers.
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Taxation
By legalizing prostitution, the service can be taxed, and the money recycled into federal programs.
Other services can be taxed that don’t lead to the workers concerned spiralling into emotional turmoil.
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
The war on prostitution
Just as the war on drugs has been an abysmal failure, the war on prostitution has merely led to a giant loss of tax dollars and police time. Where there are willing buyers and sellers, a market will exist, and no amount of vice police or moral lecturing will change that.
That the war on drugs has been a failure has not led to the legalization of drugs around the world. Failure to prevent something is not an argument for legalizing it, more an incentive to examine the methods being employed to combat the problem.
Most Western countries anti-prostitution laws focus on the prostitutes themselves, as they are the most visible target for police to take actions against and secure easy convictions. Any laws against kerb crawling are poorly enforced at best as it is much more difficult to obtain convictions for kerb crawling. This style of policing only creates a revolving door system of justice where prostitutes are soon back on the streets, continuing to employ their trade as they do not have the wherewithal to obtain lawful employment.
Law reforms should decriminalize the sale of prostitution in favour of harsher sanctions on the purchase. This has a number of benefits in that there is now a disincentive in place for the clients where there was no real disincentive before, prostitutes no longer have a reason not to go to the police for fear of being arrested and it allows support services to work with prostitutes with a view to finding them a way out of the profession. This has had marked success in Sweden with no reason why it could not be employed in other countries.
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Centres Resources
Allows resources to be used to combat the most dangerous forms of prostiution, for example since New Zealand decriminalised brothels there has been an increase in successful prosecutions against brothel owners who employ under 18s
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Legalize it
I think prostitution should be legal considering it was in the US and in most countries in the 1800’s it should be legalized there will always be <a href="http://www.bunniesoflondon.co.uk/gallery.htm">female escorts</a> that want to get paid for sex.
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Legalisation or Decrimilisation
It is important to define whether you mean legalisation or decriminalization; these are very different concepts and worldwide have led to different results. Furthermore how exactly would you legalise, do you propose a system such as Holland where there are parks which you go to for Sex or a system more like Queensland in Australia?
Decriminalisation has recently (2004) occured in New Zealand and also occured in New South Wales; however there are still substantial regulatory differences and these regulations give substantial differences in outcome
PROSTITUTION SHOULD BE LEGALIZED
Morality of Prostitution
Within society today the words ‘whore’ and ‘slut’ are still the most powerful insults that can be leveled against a woman. The power behind these words derive from the belief that to consent to selling your body in such a fashion as prostitution, is to degrade yourself as a person and your essential humanity as it is tantamount to a form of sexual slavery.
