Legalizing Prostitution

For decades it’s been a topic of discussion whether prostitution should be legal or illegal, today I am here to tell you why it should be legal, and how it overall might affect our society in positive ways.

Sexual relationships outside of marriage will always happen, but if prostitution was legal everyone would be more educated about not only prostitution, but sex trafficking as well. Individuals would understand the full consequences and risks of not using protection and not getting checked for any STD’s, HIV, and more sexually transmitted diseases and even pregnancies, the signs of someone being sex trafficked, how to help someone who is being sex trafficked, it would also help individuals who aren’t sex workers but have had sexual intercorse

they might be more educated on how to take care of themselves and how to get rid of unwanted STD’s.

Another reason why prostitution should be legal is because it would protect not only women in the sex industry who are willing to be, but unwilling children who are being sold. In Nevada U.S.A prostitution is decriminalized, and a company called ‘Brothels’ runs the sex industry there, the sex workers or prostitutes that are employed by Brothel must have a monthly blood testing for things such as HIV or Syphilis, they also have to undergo a STD and HIV test before being hired, they are also required to make their clients to wear condoms, and they set their own price and can refuse whatever client they want at their wish, some girls at the Brothel only ever see men who come daily .Other major women in our society share a similar opinion on this matter. Mellissa Bitmore, the Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects believes that legalizing prostitution would not only help stop the widespread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, but also help keep the sex workers safe from unwanted violence like physical or sexual abuse.

I believe that prostitution is illegal mainly for minor’s sake, because they would not be 18 they are not consenting adults and can be sold to an illegal sex trafficking industry, or as we’ve all heard it be called, they could be ‘pimped out’. One organization who wishes to keep it criminalized like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children states “Prostitution creates a setting whereby crime against men, women, and children become a commercial enterprise.” Meaning that people will pay to see them suffer, or during illegal prostitution the prostitute or the clientele could be seriously harmed or robbed for their money, credit cards, and other personal belongings. Individuals say that we won’t put an end to sex trafficking if prostitution is legalized, that it’s an evil profession whether or not the sex worker is willing and of age.
Additionally Making prostitution legal would help the rates of sex trafficking decrease, and other formal illegal prostitutes would feel safer about coming forward and telling authorities what they are aware about illegal prostitution.

The chair of the European Commission's Expert Group on Trafficking in Human Beings believes that “trafficking in women, coercion and exploitation can only be stopped if the existence of prostitution is recognized and the legal and social rights of prostitutes are

guaranteed.”
Finally it is a human right, if a man or woman wishes to sell their body on their own terms and conditions at their own price’s, when they could always whenever they want while nobody bats an eye saying it’s ‘evil’, do the same exact thing but without getting paid, how is it wrong? How are complete strangers, going to tell someone they’re wrong for wanting to be a sex worker or even already being a sex worker? People who aren’t exactly aware of the difference between prostitution and sex trafficking get the two confused with often, and people mostly hear about the negative stories about prostitution, such as little kids being taken from parks, schools, walking somewhere, in their own neighborhood, or even in their own backyards. We don’t hear the positive side of prostitution like how certain mothers get to make their own hours and be able to support herself and her children because she became a sex worker when nowhere else would hire her. We don’t hear positive things about prostitution, we only hear negative things making us automatically perceive that prostitution is wrong, when not all the time is it ‘evil’.