Legalization Of Medical Prostitution

Medical Prostitution Consider the following scenario: If medical marijuana continues to be voted in by citizens across this country, we the people might consider putting on the next ballet “Medical Prostitution.” It is the legalization of prostitution for medical purposes. For example, one would go to his Physician and state he has been feeling depressed, sexually deprived, in need of some “uplifting”, and unable to sleep. The medical professional writes a prescription for a prostitute and on your way you go to the district prostitutes are allow to work. With your prescription in hand, everything is legal now. This scenario, while seeming like a farfetched idea, is the same methodology currently being applied to the legalization …show more content…
The area consists of sex shops, museums, and hotels that offer vacation packages for tourist curious about the oldest profession in the world. This area is crowded with a mixture of men, women and tourist interested in putting rumors to rest and experiencing the open-minded and accepted attitude towards prostitution. One might not recognize the prostitution district of Amsterdam, due to the beautiful historic structures, the authentic restaurants, and music that lines the streets. The “Rossebuurt”, which means pink or red neighborhood in Dutch, has a low crime rate, due to the abundance of police and security escorts for the working girls. The government treats the prostitutes like professionals by regulating and monitoring the working conditions. The prostitutes also pay taxes and have access to medical care. Does this sound too good to be true? Is this only occurring overseas? No, right here in the United States, Nevada, the profession of legal prostitution is …show more content…
The plaintiff’s attorneys state this is a constitutional issue, one that needs to be determined by the higher courts. The suit claims that it is legal to have sex, so why should it be illegal to pay for sex. This is a consensual act between adults. The attorneys are asking the court, what’s the difference in taking a girl out, paying for dinner, and then go have sex together, compared to just paying for sex. Is it the dinner? They also state if it is legal for Hugh Heffner to photograph women naked, sell the sex magazine throughout the world, and make movies of sexual acts and rent them for viewers, then it should be legal to pay for those consensual encounters between two adults. The attorneys suggest this is more than a morality issue, and that morals differ from individual to individual. The attorneys’ state “legislation should not be determined by morality” (Nazarian, 2015). Even though legislation is created by the legislators whose values influence their decisions to make laws. The legislators’ morality and the morality of the voters, who put the legislators in office, do influence the creation and elimination of laws. Morality in whole refers to “peoples values, their beliefs about right and wrong, good and bad, and the