Many people say that legalizing prostitution should happen, claiming that it will reduce crime, improve public health, increase tax revenue, and even help people out of poverty. With Nevada having made prostitution legal in 11 counties, many resort to that as the prime example of showing that prostitution being legal works. Despite all this, prostitution being legalized will create more problems than the problems it will fix. Legalizing prostitution would lead to a drastic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, human trafficking, and violent crimes like rape; so many things are wrong with legalizing prostitution that it should not even be in question of being legalized. First, sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and HIV are highly
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With an approximate 2.5 million people being trafficked around the world, prostitution being legal would only make this easier for those in the trafficking business (UN News Centre). Unfortunately, prostitution is widely tolerated with people mistakenly assuming prostitution is sex rather than sexual violence in most cases. The prostitution industry is akin to slavery and so intrinsically discriminatory and abusive that it cannot be fixed. Prostitution can only be abolished for these problems to be fixed, but its root problems must be dealt with as well like poverty, racism, and even economic development that destroys traditional ways of living. It is cruel to say that legalizing prostitution will protect anyone in prostitution. Prostitution and trafficking can appear voluntarily, but that is not the reality. It will be difficult to gain appropriate support to help those who really wish to get away. Seeking help internationally to enforce agreements that challenge trafficking and prostitution can definitely help in this effort as can laws challenging people’s purchase of sex. With people’s prominent demand for prostitution being so huge, it is important to address these demands because acceptance of prostitution is a clutter of harmful and unhealthy attitudes that could encourage and possibly even justify violence against women especially. Violent behaviors against women have been greatly …show more content…
While this can be the case, it is clear that the use of prostituted women and strip clubs is an integral part to the womanhating and male bonding which could lead to sexual violence. Some people will argue that the women who are not being prostituted will be safer because the other women are being set aside to be commercially raped on their own behalf. However, women’s equality requires that all women be free from sexual exploitation. Prostitution cannot eliminate rape because prostitution itself is bought rape. The big thing that connects both prostitution and rape is that a quarter of all persons presently locked into prostitution are minors. Minors engaged in prostitution do not magically consent when they turn 18 years old. Women are being turned into objects for sexual pleasure; they could either be bought or stolen. When a man purchases a women’s body, he is not exerting his own human right to do what he wants with his body but violating hers. Women who enter into prostitution do so as a last measure to survive; various forms of coercion force women, who often have a history of sexual traumas, substance addictions, and often a lack of education, into a role of compliance. One cannot argue, in good conscience, that a woman who has been systemically abused and daily endures being raped by dozens of men is executing her human right to agency.
With an approximate 2.5 million people being trafficked around the world, prostitution being legal would only make this easier for those in the trafficking business (UN News Centre). Unfortunately, prostitution is widely tolerated with people mistakenly assuming prostitution is sex rather than sexual violence in most cases. The prostitution industry is akin to slavery and so intrinsically discriminatory and abusive that it cannot be fixed. Prostitution can only be abolished for these problems to be fixed, but its root problems must be dealt with as well like poverty, racism, and even economic development that destroys traditional ways of living. It is cruel to say that legalizing prostitution will protect anyone in prostitution. Prostitution and trafficking can appear voluntarily, but that is not the reality. It will be difficult to gain appropriate support to help those who really wish to get away. Seeking help internationally to enforce agreements that challenge trafficking and prostitution can definitely help in this effort as can laws challenging people’s purchase of sex. With people’s prominent demand for prostitution being so huge, it is important to address these demands because acceptance of prostitution is a clutter of harmful and unhealthy attitudes that could encourage and possibly even justify violence against women especially. Violent behaviors against women have been greatly …show more content…
While this can be the case, it is clear that the use of prostituted women and strip clubs is an integral part to the womanhating and male bonding which could lead to sexual violence. Some people will argue that the women who are not being prostituted will be safer because the other women are being set aside to be commercially raped on their own behalf. However, women’s equality requires that all women be free from sexual exploitation. Prostitution cannot eliminate rape because prostitution itself is bought rape. The big thing that connects both prostitution and rape is that a quarter of all persons presently locked into prostitution are minors. Minors engaged in prostitution do not magically consent when they turn 18 years old. Women are being turned into objects for sexual pleasure; they could either be bought or stolen. When a man purchases a women’s body, he is not exerting his own human right to do what he wants with his body but violating hers. Women who enter into prostitution do so as a last measure to survive; various forms of coercion force women, who often have a history of sexual traumas, substance addictions, and often a lack of education, into a role of compliance. One cannot argue, in good conscience, that a woman who has been systemically abused and daily endures being raped by dozens of men is executing her human right to agency.