Should prostitution be legalized.....?

Question

everywhere, and regulated to protect the men and women who choose to engage in it? I beleive it should be, do you agree? If so why or why not?

Answer 1

If crimes without victims were removed from the law books, then prostitution, pot and no seat belts would all be legal. It would be anarchy!!!!!! People would be driving around everywhere stoned, with prostitutes on their laps and not secured to their vehicles. Would you really want to live in a world like that?

Answer 2

Yes, yes, yes....not five minutes ago I was debating this with some women co-workers....crazy!

Drugs, prostitution, and abortion I group into a category of things people will do no matter what. Since we know this, why not make it as safe as possible by placing standards and regulations when legalizing or keeping legal all of them.

I have no children, but I imagine my child walking into a store to buy pot legally or driving into a less than perfect neighborhood that is full of crime to get it. I choose the store. If my child were to seek a prostitute for whatever reason, which I believe is there choice, I would much rather that woman/man be held to a standard, be regularly tested, mandatory protection, etc....
If my daughter were to have an abortion I would want her to have it done by a professional in a sterilized environment rather than in the backroom of an abandoned warehouse.

Legalization of prostitution would be safer prostitution.
It's not like keeping it illegal is preventing it....

Answer 3

No, I don't. The majority of people being prostituted do not CHOOSE to be in it. Most of the time, they are victims of the black market and that also includes children and teenagers who fall prey to predators. The only person who CHOOSES to "engage" in it is the customer. Why should it not be legalized? Because it IS a serious crime and points to a darker source besides the prostitute. You may be visualizing the prostitute on the street who gets picked up by men. What you do not see are those who are held as slaves inside a room and never leave it. This is the kind of prostitution that perpetuates victimizing humans. Be assured that the scum behind these operations need to be caught. If prostitution is legalized, this will never happen.

Answer 4

Yes it should as it has been around since the beginning of time. Legalizing it makes it safer as it can be better regulated and taxed. European countries that have legal prostitution don't have the problems we do when it comes to the spread of stds, sex slavery, etc. We should take notes and learn something from them on this issue as well as other issues when it comes to sexuality. America has a very skewed version of sex and this is the reason that we have so many problems in this area as well as the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world!

Answer 5

It's legalised in singapore...and I think it should be made legal everywhere because it will allow the act to be managed instead of ignored. This would ensure that pimps and organized crime figures, who regularly treat their workers on subhuman levels, would no longer control women. In some countries, prostitute rings buy and sell women on the black market, force their women to comply through violence and create unhealthy working conditions. When prostitutes operate independently and in secret, many times they become abused by their own customers.

Legalizing prostitution would prevent underground prostitution that occurs today. When men want to pay for sex, they find prostitutes.

Answer 6

I do agree, as it is right now the lack of regulation creates a profession that is full of disease and exploitation. If you make it legal and remove the crime from it, you can regulate and tax it. Keep it to a certain area of town and routinely test all the people who engage in the act. But, then what would we do with all those empty jail cells?

Answer 7

There is no reason it shouldn't be. If we legalize prostitution, make it mandatory to hold licenses and get tested, even provide ways for women (or men) to organize their 'trade' besides finding a pimp, I think it would significantly diminish the whole crime aspect. During prohibition, gangs were all over selling alcohol, weren't they? It was dangerous, and you knew that bottle of bourbon in your hand was the result of illegal activity. Now people can go to the nearest store and there's nothing dangerous about it. Legalize prostitution. Make it safe.

Answer 8

It should be, and so should a lot of other things. If a grown woman wants to make her living having sex and a grown man wants to pay her money to have sex, then it should be so. All drugs should be legal too. Look at all of the lives wasted in jail because they wanted to catch a buzz. Billions and billions of dollars spent on a drug war that doesn't do anything except make people want to take more drugs, make them more dangerous because anyone can put anything they want in them because there's no one responsible for them, etc, etc, etc. The government just wants you to buy drugs from them. One plants is legal to have in your yard, but another one can make you feel good, so if you have it in your yard you go to jail. In Florida it is LEGAL to ride your motorcycle WITHOUT a helmet, but ILLEGAL to be INSIDE a car and not be wearing a seatbelt. How stupid is that? People who want to pass laws that restrict your freedom are FASCISTS (See 1984, The Bush Administration, V for Vendetta, Hitler, etc.).

BTW, Penn and Teller had an episode on their show on Showtime about prostitution and made a good case for legalization as well, Check it out.

Answer 9

It's a moral standard in this country. Prostitution, of men or women alike, calls for the selling of ones body for money. Wrong. Immoral. The United States was built on standards, and they must be kept.

Answer 10

Prostitution IS criminal in aspects of Nevada. i'm incredibly certain it would not want to be presented as a level contained in the college gadget, despite the indisputable fact that. maximum folk in contact with this market incredibly a lot have the occupation found out from the get-go. playstation : Everett? maximum rules, even the following contained in the uber-Christian united statesof A., aren't any further depending on the Bible. you comprehend, it really is that complete 'separation of church and state' difficulty. you won't be able to make something criminal only because it really is approved contained in the Bible (like slavery and murdering your own little ones in the adventure that they sass you), or unlawful because it really is condemned contained in the Bible (like homosexuality). .