what is so wrong with prostitution?

Question

infections? We may even get in unknowingly from our spouse, have safe sex with rubbers instead.
social stigma? who cares, they glorify one with money, wherever it came from!
battery and assault? it happens anywhere anyway!
Plainly, there are exchanges of warm bodies, sensual pleasures, commodities, etc.
What's the difference with one who marry for money, convenience,favors, Isn't that a form of prostitution?
Why then is prostitution looked down upon?

Answer 1

i think nothing wrong with it

Answer 2

Prostitution is illegal and there are reasons for this.

You may catch an STI from your spouse, but where did they get it from? The use of condoms is not 100% effective at preventing anything be it pregnancy or a contageous disease, so that is a poor excuse.

Prostitutes contribute little if anything to society as the earn a lot of money and pay no tax on it.

Prostitution is also linked to many other forms of crime including assault but also commonly with drug use and traficing.

You say that prostitution wouldn't affect battery and assault. Recently 7 young women who were selling their bodies were murdered in the south of england. 2 more in a town just up the road from me a few months ago. They would still be alive if they had an honest job.

These are just a few reasons why prostitution is frowned upon by most people.

Answer 3

To address your flimsey reasons I offer this. Infection from your spouse? Sure, if he/she is patronizing prostitutes. Social Stigma, the Bible states sex within marriage. Battery and assault, regardless of how and where it occurs is still breaking the law. Just because it happens everywhere does not make it right. Exchange of warm bodies, sensual pleasures, etc, that's what love and marriage supplies to the bond of a marriage. And Yes, marrying for money, convenience, favors is a form of prostitution, which is still against the law and why those marriages will not survive, even if wedding vows declare for better or worse. Pity the man or woman you end up marrying.

Answer 4

Saying you can get infections from your spouse is like saying you can die crossing the street. It is possible but, does that mean we should inflate the odds of getting disease. There are people who live up to their ethical good out there.

Money isn't everything. Sex is not a commodity. It's a ritual that should be practiced with a dedicated couple that if they have kids can provide for it.

I don't believe in marriage I believe in trust and my own judgment.

Prostitution is looked down because if we let it escalate it will no longer be a poor persons game it will become an industry. If you make sex an industry there will be corruption. Children involved, victims, lawsuits, disease spread on a mass scale, bastard children on a mass scale. Since the dawn of prostitution harlots have been looked at as people who trade dignity for capital.

Money is good for the economy but, what good is the economy if it is wreaked by sex trafficking?

Answer 5

You pose some excellent questions!

Question1: IMHO nothing is wrong with prostitution.
2.Infections happen as often in 'monogamous' relationships as anywhere else, unless both partners are committed to being COMPLETELY monogamous.
Most prostitutes require their customers to use protection, because they value their own life. This is usually not true in cases of drug-addicted prostitutes.
3 Social stigma is something dreamt up by the Religious Right and Others who want to appear "Good" regardless of what they do on their own time. Heads up, friends, they're doing the same things the Johns are, they just don't pay with Visa.
It's common knowledge that in countries where prostitution is legal, there are less sexual assaults (rape) and fewer sex crimes committed on children. Who's to argue with people seeking a willing prostitute instead of an unwilling victim?
4. I agree with your statement about the negligible difference between marrying for money, prestige or connections and prostitution. It is exactly the same thing, only marriage(whatever its form) is sanctioned by the Church and prostitution is considered evil.
5. People are easier to control in marriages (they get an outlet for all that lust that they can't contain) and the Church as well as society at large continues to benefit from making sex shameful and evil instead of the God- given wonder it is.

Answer 6

I believe that prostitution should be legalized, it is going to continue to happen and since it will continue why not offer the women and the men that work in the industry health care and other benefits. Let a man go out and hire a professional as opposed to grabbing some unknowing, innocent child for their sick sexual pleasures. The government just hasn't figured out how to tax it yet.

Answer 7

Battery and assult is wrong anywhere, be it to a prostitute or the president.

If not prostitution then the social conditions that 1) Make it nesecary for women to do it. (and not that many do it out of choice) and 2) The social conditions that make the 'client' need it.

The philosophy that says marriage is a form of prostitution has got the defintion of marrige wrong. Two 'equal' partners remember. It also suggests that women dont enjoy sex.

Ask most people what they prefer: A hug from someone that loves them or full blown sex with a stranger? You could be a regular client of a prostitute but its unlikey that you will ever get 'close' to the 'warmth' potential of someone that you love and loves you.

Keep perverts off the street? No. Absolutly not. The greater the tolerance to prostitution, the greater the incidence of sex related crime. BTW : It doent have to happen in the same country.

Im not knocking prostitution (pun not intended). Controled prostitution works in some countries and doesnt in others.

And im afraid if you place 'a warm and loving relationship' in to the category of 'commodities' then you greatly underestimate it as a nesecary thing for healthy living. Its akin to selling air for breathing.

The prostitute herself or himself has to cope with the fact that he/she is useful only as long as the body lasts. (I didnt say pretty, slim, attractive either). Beyond that, anything that would maintain the individuals self-esteem could be regarded as nigh-on useless.

The men/women that employ their services? Im generalising of course but it suggests the person lacks the social skills to form a relationship (or is too lazy) or cannot communicate his/her needs to his/her partner. Cant hunt then you dont eat....get it?

The real answer depends on who you are of course. Your values, your faith, whatever.

The acid test comes when your parter announces that he/she is going to be doing it for a living.

Answer 8

Personal convictions.

Prostitution is sexual performance for money. Sex is not the only "pay off" in marriage. Your not married so you don't understand the full ramifications. If you are then I pity you.

Go see a counselor.(No i am not kidding, this kind of attitude in a marriage can only end in tragedy)

As for reasons against prostitution.

It has been seen as a way of breaking people by those who would prey upon them for monetary purposes -- see slave trade from eastern Europe or trafficking in young adults in North America, or children in Cambodia( some of them as young as five years old). Death and suffering are always good reasons to stop anything.

As for the more "civilized forms" of prostitution you are on thicker ice. However, would it not be more in all of our best interests, as a society, to have adults finding intimacy without the economics.
Would it not be better to have a mature outlook on sexual relationships. Rather than treat sex like some 13 year old would treat trading cards.

Nutshell--Buying sex may mean that you cannot form lasting mature relationships with other adults. You might want to see a counselor.

Answer 9

Simple morality. How would you feel if you found out your husband used to be a player, or is getting his paycheck from doing it.

Most woman that want to be prostitutes have self esteem problems; and there are much healthier and productive ways to boost it.

I don't buy the idea for one second that women do it out of nessacity either. My mother has a piece of **** for a husband that gives her hardly any money to live on and she has two children to take care of and yet she finds ways to make money without being a whore. Any woman that does it for a living is either lazy, a whore with no self esteem, or lacks so little education all they can do is spread their legs.

Answer 10

Josie, it's a matter of standards or what is common ground the most number of people will accept. Yes you can catch vaginal warts from your spouse.or herpes...but you are more likely to catch it from someone that has multiple sex partners.
But from a personal point of view and by personal I mean I knew people that got into the "business"....At 1st they were afraid..then in a few months when it appeared that nothing bad was happening to them....money was rolling in...guilt hits them..hard!
So what do they do...take some drugs...drink a little...then maybe a little more...then they look back and see they have been doing things even animals wouldn't do...and not even for their own pleasure...just money...when money is your only friend....you don't have much...usually.. your family won't have anything to do with you...you lose your children... you pick up some kind of faint but dominate body odor, you start hanging with persons that only want you for your money or the only thing you have left. You hang with thieves, dopers, users and dealers..people that will kill you for nothing more than a piece of crack...but you argue that not every one who is a prostitue ends up that way...most don't....but they have lost something they can never get back...they pretend they are happy and even rationalize their actions as justifiable because...their parents beat them or society was cruel and unaccepting.
You stated above" social stigma, who cares" if we all accept the most base of instintual acts from each other then we are no different from animals.
Marrying for money...what a dream.. yep people do it but fact is...they don't talk about it in those terms..only the people outside of the marriage do that. Nobody in their right mind would say that to a prospective mate" I'm only here for the money" Thats why its acceptable to society because motivations are hard to discern.
Your arguement about assault and battery...."it happens anywhere, anyway"....so since it happens anyway...we shouldn't do anything to prevent it...right, so here comes your old grandma, minding her own business...keep in mind there are no laws against this...I just walk up to her and beat her to the ground...I decide how far I want to beat her down...no laws..no social standards...funny thing is you would have no legal right to even say anything to me for doing it.
"They glorify whoever has money, wherever it came from" Thats an example of inexperience in life. when gangsters are "glorified" on t.v....its only to provide a chance for the average man or woman to live outside of the routines of their lives..none of the people thats excited at seeing one, would want to live next door to them.
To sum up Jo, theres plenty of reasons against it and very few supporting it.

Answer 11

Don't kid yourself. People can argue the case for prostitution because there are similar things that are legal. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is right.

If prostitution was respectful, then you would think the clients of prostitutes would brag about paying for sex, but they don't. The clients do not respect the prostitute and when the prostitute realizes they are only a piece of meat and the client doesn't really care for them, (even though they have shared the most intimate relation) the prostitute loses respect for themselves.

You will always have to sleep with yourself and live with yourself. Treat yourself with the respect you deserve.