Article - Legalized Prostitution - What do you think of Governments who legalize prostitution?

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*Perilous Times and Decaying Morality
40,000 women 'sex trafficked' for World Cup*
German government supports import of mostly poor from Central, Eastern
Europe

Posted: May 26, 2006
In response to reports that 40,000 young women will be brought to
Germany from Central and Eastern Europe to "sexually service" men
attending the World Cup soccer championship next month, a Catholic group
warns that many are desperately poor and will be "sex trafficked"
against their will.

An estimated 3 million soccer fans – mostly men – are expected to
descend on 12 German cities for the quadrennial sports event June 9 to
July 9. Prostitution is legal in Germany.

Most of the women are told "they are going to be models, waitresses or
some other harmless occupation," says C-FAM. "Many will be brutally
assaulted by intoxicated fans."

The group comments: "Whatever their circumstances, each and every one of
these young women is someone's daughter, a child of God and deserves our
protection! They do not deserve to be exploited and sentenced to a life
of misery to satisfy the sexual appetites of soccer fans."

What "makes this crime particularly appalling," adds C-FAM, "is the open
support it is receiving from the German government. The same government
that likes to lecture America on morality!"

The group is far from alone in its condemnation of the mass prostitution
campaign. Before German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the White
House earlier this Month, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J., said: "It is
an outrage that the German government is currently facilitating
prostitution and we believe women who will be exploited will be treated
as commodities."

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Brunhilde Raiser, director
of the National Council of German Womens' Organizations, said: "Forced
prostitution has yet to become a public issue of concern as a severe
violation of human and women's rights. Our goal is to bring it as far up
the political agenda as possible."

Even Sweden's "equality ombudsman," Claes Borgström, has reportedly
called for a boycott of the World Cup by the Swedish team to highlight
the problem.

Because the German red light districts are too small to accommodate the
soccer fans, the country's sex industry has built a massive prostitution
complex, including a "mega-brothel" in Berlin, next to the main World
Cup venue, that can accommodate 650 male clients.

Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in
areas the size of a football field, with condoms, showers and parking
and a special focus on protecting the customers' anonymity.

Some sources estimate that as many as 30 percent of the soccer fans will
visit prostitutes at least once.

The group is collecting names on a petition to be delivered to the
German missions to the U.N. and European Parliament, German Embassy in
the U.S., members of the German Parliament and the governing body of the
World Cup.

In December, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that
strengthens the nation's current human trafficking law and authorizes
new funds for investigation and prosecution of domestic trafficking
within the United States.

Each year, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across
international borders, and millions more are trafficked internally.
Worldwide, more than 3,000 traffickers were convicted last year.

A report issued in 2004 estimated 10,000 people in the United States are
being forced to work against their will under threat of violence.
Researchers found that almost half of forced laborers are in
prostitution or the sex industry, close to a third are domestic workers,
and one in 10 works in agriculture.

Answer 1

It is absolutely wrong for any Government to legalize prostitution. Why are the Governments helping crime groups (Mafia, Hell Angels, etc.) get rich off the pain and suffering of innocent men, women and children?

Prostitution = Billion Dollar Industry
Billion Dollar Industry = Government Income

It is obvious that the Governments who have legalized Prostitution have probably done so for Government profits.

Each year, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across
international borders, and millions more are trafficked internally.

It is outrageous that some Governments are currently facilitating prostitution activities taking place around the world. Men, women, and children are being exploited and being treated as commodities. A report issued in 2004 estimated 10,000 people alone in the United States are being forced to work against their will under threat of violence. I personally believe that hundreds of thousands of people (including men pimps) are being forced into the prostitution business. The world Governments must recognize that forced prostitution/sex trafficking is a severe violation of human rights. Their decision to legalize prostitution is appalling.

Obviously, the Governments that have legalized prostitution have greatly failed victims of violence. They don’t care about the pain and suffering of the men, women and children being trafficked. I do not believe that the Governments legalized prostitution for health care reasons alone. The Governments could have easily provided health care to prostitutes without legalizing prostitution.

Answer 2

I think that nevada was smart in legalizing it out of major cities and that they keep current health checks and it is safer for the girl and for the customer. It keeps the prostitution out of the major cities while still allowing it to happen. I think that it should be legal with some fine guidelines, like only over the age of 18, stuff like that, no matter what you are going to get the illegal problems of children, teens, forcing. It isn't the prostitution that needs to be fixed, it is the people who pay to have sex with kids and with teens, it needs to start upstream, no matter how much they try to police the act of hooking, until you get at the people buying, there will always be people selling, it is the oldest profession after all. I think that safe and legal prostitution where the women are protected and in a safe environment can be a beneficial thing. If a woman wants to sell her body then why am I to say no, it is her body, but she needs to have all the same rights that anyone else has.

Answer 3

YOU'RE KIDDING!! i can't believe that!! if they were doing it willingly that still wouldn't be that awful, but AGAINST THEIR WILL!! being LIED TO and FED STORIES ABOUT HOW THEY'LL BE WAITRESSES! THOSE DASTARDLY *****-GOVERNMENT-PEOPLE!! I'd like to take those people, put them in barrels studded with rusty nails and attach a rope from the barrel to the back of a sportscar. or perhaps give them a functional sex change operation (if they're male) and have THEM go in place of those young women. Those assholes!!
Yes, it's SO hard to feel sorry for these people who doubtles
s would have perished on the street otherwise. and tutti, ever considered the notion of rape, then an accusation of simple prostitution? Yeah. didn't think so.
Also just wanted to add: why am i the only guy here and also the only person lobbying AGAINST prostitution?

Answer 4

while i don't agree with anyone being forced into prostitution, i have to wonder about anyone who would agree to be shipped off somewhere by people they don't know to do a job they have no proof exists. kinda hard to feel sorry for them. as for the governments who sanction prostitution, i feel that they are just going along with something that happens anyway. i think it should be totally legal everywhere. if i want to sell what my momma gave me, and someone else wants to buy it, that's my business. contrary to what some say, prostitution does not ruin families or cause any social harm.

Answer 5

Wow, that's a lot of SPAM in that question. But, I personally do not have a problem with legalizing prostitution. Infact, I think it's a GOOD thing.