Prostitution Decriminalization

Some say prostitution is the world 's oldest profession. Yet, only a small percentage of the world’s government allows it. The legalization of prostitution is a very controversial topic due to many people’s moral beliefs. Prostitutes all over the world are treated as outcasts. A reason for people to be against prostitution could be due to their religious beliefs, moral standpoints, or lack of knowledge over the subject. Many religions state that sex outside of marriage is a sin and those who do it should be looked down upon. Due to these beliefs people tend to be against the legalization of prostitution. Though there are many facts that show that prostitution should be legalized. Prostitution should be legalized in the United States because then it can be regulated, would help the economy, and would lower the prison population and crimes against prostitutes.

Patty Kelly’s article, “Enough already, it’s time we decriminalize prostitution”, takes the reader into a fascinating behind the scene look into one of Mexico’s legalized brothels. Although it is apparent that her research and investigation into this social experiment are well defined, it is too narrow a focus to gather all the required information to support her argument. Kelly begins with a half hazard analysis of Elliot Spitzer infidelity, then continues down the path that is far too laser like to see the overall effect on these women; failing to see these prostitutes as real people with hearts and souls. Instead, she produces an impression that the prostitutes are just commodity, bought and sold on the open market, lacking feeling

Policies and laws fail to stop prostitution, and it will not stop. It is more costly to keep prostitution illegal. Prostitutes will be more vulnerable to getting criminal records, which then makes it harder for them in society, to obtain legal jobs. Also, with prostitution being illegal the workers may not be able to protect themselves from crimes against them. As prostitution is not legal, then they have to find discreet places to work, which usually is not in a safe environment. If some kind of crime against them did happen, they may feel that, they aren’t able to go to the police for help, as their work is illegal. It actually makes it harder on the worker, in turn making it harder for the client. There are all sorts of people who turn to prostitutes. From blue collar workers to high executives of companies, business owners and more. With prostitution being illegal, the clients are facing criminal charges as well. This does not only hurt the client, but communities as well. The author believes that people around the world have changed their older views and sexual norms to adapt to a more modern society. Brents, B.A., Jackson, C.A., & Hausbeck, K. (2010) concludes that prostitution is better being legalized than being criminalized (p.233). And with this change, people should reevaluate and learn from Nevada’s policies on prostitution being legal. While the author has shown many reasons why

Whether or not the United States should legalize prostitution is a highly debated social, political, ethical, and cultural issue. Prostitution by definition is to engage in sexual activity with someone for payment. Although many countries and even some rural counties in the U.S. have legalized prostitution, it still has dire effects on the women involved and is an immoral and exploitative act. Prostitution is an unethical and immoral act of exploitative, degrading, and abusive work that the United States should not tolerate. The abolition of prostitution is a legal approach with proven positive results that could dramatically reduce the amount of illegal prostitution and human trafficking taking place in the United States.

“Prostitution is one of the worlds oldest professions” (Kipling 1) and still has quiet a relevance in today’s society. However, unlike this primitive profession, a not-so-old debate is whether or not the United States should legalize prostitution. Prostitution is seen from many different viewpoints and although there is clear evidence of the damage that it puts on society, along with tarnishing the morals of Americans. Concerning America and its people, prostitution should not be legalized in any way.

Nevada is the only state in America that has legalized prostitution, however, in the 19th century there were no laws against selling your body for sex. (Grant). Laws against prostitution are new, only about a hundred years old. Many of the first women that settled into the New World sold their bodies as a source of income. In order to regulate and control prostitution there were places called Red-Light Districts. There were many red-light districts across America, in which commercialized “sex is isolated, encouraged, or both” (Grant). This led to landlords and the police enforcing and gaining profit from the segregation of prostitution in certain neighborhoods. The houses of prostitution in these districts

Although there are concerns about the possibility of sexual exploitation of women in this line of work, legalizing or even decriminalizing prostitution would allow us to properly regulate this system and provide better protection for these workers. Despite the overwhelming majority of legislator’s belief that legalization would encourage violence and crime, turning the business of prostitution legal allows for regulation, disease testing, and proper medical care that will provide health care to prostitutes and ensure their protection as they will be recognized as workers. With this new found security, workers will be able to have protection under the law rather than exposition and regulated encounters that could be tracked and taxed. With this regulation, we will be able to allocate healthcare properly to these women to ensure their safety and maintain the sexual health of workers and their partners as well as provide standard regulations as to who is able to work depending on their mental, physical, and emotional health. In states like Rhode Island, where a discrepancy in the wording of a state law accidentally led to the decriminalization of indoor prostitution, public health and safety of state patrons substantially improved. In deleting parts of the law, legislators accidentally removed the section of the law that referred to prostitution as a crime allowing indoor prostitution to become technically legal. According to the Washington Post and the National Bureau of Economic Research, this essential legalization led to ‘the statewide incidence of gonorrhea among women [to decline] by 39 percent, and the number of rapes reported to police in the state [to decline] by 31 percent’ between 2004 to 2009. With this new data, it is clearly shown that removing

Prostitution in many forms has been apart of a multitude of countries including our own. Some of the most recent and widely known forms of legal prostitution are currently established all throughout Nevada. The most commonly known, Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House, Nevada, had a series aired on HBO. In recent history, there have been urban areas where a collection of sex shops, a red light district, located New Orleans from 1897- 1917. In the times when prostitution was prominent in New Orleans, Louisiana local economy was thriving. As briefly explained, there have been and are multiple instances where legalized and regulated prostitution have been beneficial to our country. This would also save the government a

What is prostitution? Prostitution is the exchange of sexual activities for money. Prostitution is very unsafe for any one involve in this kind of life. For instance, prostitutes are more likely to get an STI and/or HIV, or severely hurt by stranger.

Should Prostitution be legal? Prostitution is a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment. Some people consider it rape or sexual abuse but I think otherwise. In Missouri, it is a crime have sex for money. Around 1915 is when prostitution was illegalized.

Why prostitution should be illegal. This should not be allowed due to what the results could be after sleeping with a prostitute. This is how disease gets spreaded to family, friend’s or loved ones. This could be really harmful and cost lots of money. This is a sin to sell your body for money.

It’s a dispute since the beginning of humankind, weather making prostitution legal will reduce violence and give sex workers some safety or it will be just another gift to pimps. Recent interview with Brenda Myers-Powell, who was a prostitute for 25 years, published in BBC News, where she describes all hardships of her profession, reminded people that the issue never went away and something needs to be done (Myers-Powell). According to International Organization of Migration, decriminalizing prostitution will promote sex trafficking and won’t help to end exploration of desperate immigrants. Human Rights Network also states that actual sex workers do not want the industry be legalized (Raymond). Although those organizations have a point and

Some implications that prostitution has on a person’s physical, emotional, and sexual health varies. For example, a prostitute’s health can be compromised if/when they are assaulted, raped, use drugs, be arrested, or contract a life-threatening disease.

Money and sex, two things that seem to be of highest importance to many people in today’s society. People seem to want to have them both, but when someone combines the two, people suddenly change their minds. Why? That becomes prostitution, and that is illegal. Due to the fact that prostitution has been deemed wrong and made illegal for many years, people think that it should remain that way. Many people fail to see a world that could truly be helped significantly through the legalization of prostitution. Prostitution should be made legal due to the facts that it would reduce the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases and infections, help to improve the economy, and would significantly reduce crime rates.

Prostitution has frequently been touted as the world's oldest profession, for the simple fact that it has been prevalent in society for quite some time. In order to properly discuss the many social ramifications of this particular crime and possible ways for dealing with them, it is first necessary to define prostitution and to explore the reason why it is a crime. Prostitution is the exchange of money or monetary assets for sexual favors and pleasure. It is the paying for sex in all of its myriad facets, from conventional coitus to a number of lewd and arcane acts from which people derive pleasure. Prostitution is part of the sex industry, which includes legal business such as strip clubs (Weitzer 7). There are a couple of different reasons as to why exchanging money for sex is deemed illegal. One principle reason is that if it were legalized, it would be exceedingly difficult for the government to tax and to capitalize off it, which is one of the reasons in which marijuana is widely considered illegal. More importantly, however, prostitution is illegal because it promotes the objectification of women and their bodies, and inherently reduces the degree of parity between men and women in which the latter are viewed as things simply for the fulfillment of men's sexual desires. Additionally, there are a variety of noxious activities that accompany prostitution such as trafficking in which the will of another is subjected to someone else's.