Legalization would reduce the number of prostitutes in jail, making room for more dangerous criminals while simultaneously providing the police force with more time to focus on pressing issues. By legalizing and regulating prostitution, stereotypes about prostitutes could be dealt with to smite discrimination and its negative consequences. Regulation of prostitution would also lead to greater control over venereal diseases. If prostitution was to be legalized then prostitutes could gain access to the fringe benefits that come with a legal job like access to health care. Additionally, the red light districts in which, according to Dr. Shumsky, “police departments...confined prostitution to certain locations” could be cleaned up to create a safer environment (Shumsky 668). Red light districts are dangerous because they create a nexus of criminal activity, such as drug abuse, that infects anyone who resides in
Legalization would reduce the number of prostitutes in jail, making room for more dangerous criminals while simultaneously providing the police force with more time to focus on pressing issues. By legalizing and regulating prostitution, stereotypes about prostitutes could be dealt with to smite discrimination and its negative consequences. Regulation of prostitution would also lead to greater control over venereal diseases. If prostitution was to be legalized then prostitutes could gain access to the fringe benefits that come with a legal job like access to health care. Additionally, the red light districts in which, according to Dr. Shumsky, “police departments...confined prostitution to certain locations” could be cleaned up to create a safer environment (Shumsky 668). Red light districts are dangerous because they create a nexus of criminal activity, such as drug abuse, that infects anyone who resides in