Should prostitution be legalized?

Question

Should prostitution be legalized? If not, why not?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Give the women the rights and the means to protect themselve physically, emotionally, as well as their health. Get it off the black market. Do something similar to what they do in Amsterdam..they even have a union there!

Answer 2

Definately, I think as long as they aren't forced into prostitution, aka slavery, then it should be legal.

Females....(and males).... dance nude for money. It's their bodies if they want to sell their bodies for sex, then why not.

Prostitution is going to happen regardless. If it was legalized then it wouldn't have to be an underground operation, therefore health tests could be done to make sure they have no STD's and common sense would hopefully prevail that no one under 18 can do it without parental consent(what type of parent that would consent to this doesn't really deserve to be a parent) and parents would hopefully try to encourage their daughters to pursue better careers and a better way of life, and more rewarding and so-on-and-so-forth.

So if it was legalized it would be safer because of no STD's there would be records of all the girls and who they are with so that hopefully no one goes disappearing.

hypothetical situation:

"Hhmmm I'm no good at anything and I can't keep a job what should I do that I enjoy? Well I lllllove sex, I'll become a prostitute"

Answer 3

I see 2 advantages in legalizing prostitution.
: Since it is legal, it will be taxed. This will give extra revenue for the government.
:The prostitutes will be monitored..and monthly check-ups can be done..and this could lessen the risk of spreading disease...
Making it legal doesn't eradicate the problem. Look at how it is now..illegal but very rampant...so why not just legalize it... and then be able to CONTROL it!!! ('_')

Answer 4

I say yes I don't understand why its ok to use sex to sell everything except sex. And when your honest about it isn't play boy a form of prostitution? and besides if I like having sex why can't I get paid for it? Plus when you break it down to race black women during slavery were used for the sole purpose of having babies and were rapped often, and now that they and many other women use what has been put into them as means for a better life of course some one has to knock them down. Its just the same with drugs, the government produced junkies with these wars. Giving soldiers morphine to numb the pain of having a limb blown off and being shell shocked. then they send them home with no type of help, now their just drug addicts lookin for another hit to numb a pain that won't ever go away. I can go on and on about this but I think I've said enough.

Answer 5

Yes. It should be legalized, regulated & taxed- like any other Service. The worlds "oldest profession"- will be with us for as long as we're around...-so we might as we'll deal with it as such. By legalizing it, we can clean it up, check the spread of AIDS among prostitutes- and free the cops up to do something more usefull..

Answer 6

No. See my answer to 3 questions above yours. Basically, my position is this: Most prostitutes were sexually abused as children, growing up without any self-worth & thinking of themselves as only good as sexual objects. They can't conceive of themselves succeeding at anything else. Men take advantage of this by continuing to exploit them. I think the police have it backwards; the names of all men who exploit these women should be plastered all over the papers. It isn't right and you know it. The world doesn't have too many men who go around telling people that they've visited a prostitute, does it?

Answer 7

Legalizing prostitution would be detrimental to society in many ways.

Legislators leap onto the legalization bandwagon because they think nothing else is successful. However, as Scotland Yard's Commissioner has stated: "You've got to be careful about legalizing things just because you don't think what you are doing is successful."

We hear very little about the role of the sex industry in creating a global sex market in the bodies of women and children. Instead, we hear much about making prostitution into a better job for women through regulation and/or legalization, through unions of so-called "sex workers," and through campaigns which provide condoms to women in prostitution but cannot provide them with alternatives to prostitution. We hear much about how to keep women in prostitution but very little about how to help women get out.

Governments that legalize prostitution as "sex work" will have a huge economic stake in the sex industry. Consequently, this will foster their increased dependence on the sex sector. If women in prostitution are counted as workers, pimps as businessmen, and buyers as consumers of sexual services, thus legitimating the entire sex industry as an economic sector, then governments can abdicate responsibility for making decent and sustainable employment available to women

Rather than the State sanctioning prostitution, the State could address the demand by penalizing the men who buy women for the sex of prostitution, and support the development of alternatives for women in prostitution industries. Instead of governments cashing in on the economic benefits of the sex industry by taxing it, governments could invest in the futures of prostituted women by providing economic resources, from the seizure of sex industry assets, to provide real alternatives for women in prostitution.

Answer 8

guess you've never been married or married now
woman already prat ice prostitution . example: you ask a chick out you pay for dinner you pay for the trip either your car or public transportation then you try to have some sort of sexual encounter with her now you tell me what that sounds like

Answer 9

Sure, why not. Then they could all live in the same part of town; they could have their weekly check-ups courtesy of the government; instead of giving some pimp all of their money they could pay taxes--so they'd receive social security when they got older--and unemployment/disability when for whatever reason they could not work.

Answer 10

No, most women are froced into the business because they are slaves or they have a drug addiction (prostitutes) or the few who do it for the money on the prono sites who are not forced slaves have been sexually abused and od it to egt your money because all men are addicted to it and in this way they get the money from the men and in a way get back at their abuser.
Sex slave industry sites

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26296

http://www.afajournal.org/2004/april/404culture.asp

http://www.humantrafficking.com/humantrafficking/features_ht3/MSNBC_Sex_Slaves/MSNBC_1.htm

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2002/06/20020620p2g00m0dm998000c.html