Make prostitution legal?

Question

Ladies and Gents, children of all ages. We must discuss about something rather controversial.

Being that Prostitution is widely regarded as "morally wrong"

Why has it been around in some form or another since recorded history?

I would like to see prostitution legalized due to its health and safety benefits. Less sex workers on the street, more health checks and control of the environment. Screening and registry of the customers a.k.a "Johns" and a more dignified way of life.

I want your views.

Answer 1

I've advocated this for many years. There are a number of benefits. The legalization removes the street aspect to a certain degree. Folks who choose this line of work must get recertified health wise on a monthly basis. Disease goes down, Violence toward prostitutes is reduced, & the earnings of the profession being legitimate are now subject to taxation, but also make the taxpayer eligible for SS benefits.

Let's face it we are all prostitutes to something or someone in a manner of speaking. We have enough violent crime to focus on without expending resources here.

How is the straightforward transaction of giving money for sex that much different from buying a nice gift & dinner or (whatever) & expecting sex as a result.

Answer 2

My beliefs tell me that prostitution is wrong...There are plenty of other things that are legal that I believe are wrong as well... IE: pornongraphy..However, I do agree that it has been around forever and it will more than likely be around forever..So why not try to control it..Make it legal..Make the women be registered and biannually take STD tests...if it is legal then the women can be in better enviroments not on some dingy street corner just waiting to get gang banged...I also think that the use of marijuana should be legal..people are gonna do it...there are so many people in jail for possession that we, tax payers, are spending a ton of money yearly to keep them there...if we make it legal, we can set an age limit, like drinking and smoking age limits...and if someone is caught under the influence in public or while driving, they should be punished accordingly...well anyways..just my opinion!! :)

Answer 3

Yeah and while we are at it why don't we make everything legal. That way nobody goes to jail, noone gets shot when they try to rob a liquer store, etc. There would be so many benefits.

No here's where the problem lies. All the women would be hookers and all men would be broke. Then when the women have all the money, they'd stop having sex and men would have to have some sort of government funding in order to have sex. The government would have to provide Social Sex Act to enable grants and interest free loans to those who are less fortunate.

Ok here's the age limit:
Women: 18-30 - legal prostitutes
Men: 18-30 - legal to purchase sex

Anyone over 30 will get a ticket and pay $50 fine for each 10 year age bracket. ie 56 yo man will pay $150 fine

Anyone under 18 will go to jail or bording school according to their age bracket. ie 37 yo woman purchases sex with 15 yo boy, woman goes to jail for 20 years (37-17) and boy goes to bording school until 18 yo. If both are under 18, both go to bording school.

Answer 4

I would like to see such sex workers recieve an education and get jobs elsewhere. It's not only morally wrong, but damaging to the women who are subjected to it. There may be some who want to be a prostitute, but that's a small number. Lets get the ladies ABLE to make their own decisions, and give them the resources to do so. Perhaps then your views will have a place.

Answer 5

I agree as well. It is never going to go away. Gambling is legal, cigarrettes are legal, why not prostitution. It is a vice which most men and even some women will partake of. The controls which could be put on it if it where to become legal woudl clean the immage of prostitution up form that of the street hooker to that of the respectable employee.

Answer 6

Although it might help a little, making it legal won't solve it. There would be those who would work outside the law providing cheaper services with anonymity. And i'm sure some of those services would be so socially unacceptable that society would never accept making them legal. There would still be illegal elements.

Vice is vice. Making alcohol legal did not eliminate the serious problems it causes although ti did help reduce the criminal activity involved.

I think making prostitution more socially acceptable would invite people to try it. As it is, it is filthy, dirty, criminal, and potentially deadly. Maybe that's what it should remain.

Answer 7

Prostitution is legal in some areas. Another interesting situation to consider is marrying for money or financial stability. Is that a legal form of prostitution?

I agree that it is something that should be legalized as well as monitored. Why are we wasting our tax dollars cracking down on prostitution when we should be cracking down on pedophiles and rapists?

Answer 8

I live in New Zealand and prostitution is legal and its a protected profession, i believe that women shouldnt neccessary be on the streets but its stereotyped to say that they are all into drugs and alcohol and crime, some people dont have a choice and mayb it is some peoples choice to do it who are we to judge them. Prostitution should be legal because everyone should have equal rights and if that pacific proffession is illegal and not protected that explains the violence towards them because they are unprotected.

Answer 9

Yes, I think it should be legal. The reason why it is illegal in some jurisdictions is that it makes people uncomfortable. There is an element of prostitution to many dating and marriage situations--the woman provides sexual favors in exchange for some financial security (and, yes, sometimes the gender roles are reversed). Acknowledging this openly, when people like to think of relationships based solely on love, makes people uncomfortable. Prostitution is an uncomfortable overt reminder of something that is covertly present in a lot of relationships.

However, when you think of the basic act of prostitution--a man putting his penis into a woman's vagina after paying her money--it is hard to see why it should be illegal. There are many different forms of prostitution. There are women who prostitute themselves on street corners. There are escorts who sell their services through independent or agency advertising. There are female university students who charge their male classmates money for sexual intercourse.

It is generally the activities that accompany prostitution--the pimping and drugs--that are cited as reasons for making it illegal. Yet those activities would largely go away if prostitution were legal.

There is one illegal--and serious--activity associated with prostitution, however, that is harder to get rid of--and is a problem whether it is legal or illegal--and that is trafficking in women. Prostitutes, even where prostitution is legal, must still be legally eligible to work in the country where they are working. By its nature--involving only two participants--prostitution tends to be a cash transaction, and this makes prostitutes who are illegal immigrants vulnerable to trafficking in women.

But making it illegal doesn't make the problems with it go away, so it still seems to me like, overall, there are a lot fewer problems if prostitution is legal.

Answer 10

Health and Safety benefits? Dignified way of life?