Prostitution Is Not A Victimless Crime

There are many reasons why prostitution is not a victimless crime. Authorities and society look at the women, men, and children on street corners and personal ads as wasted human beings living a life of crime. However, they are victims, trapped in life, cycle, or organization that they cannot break free from and escape. Prostitutes suffer from many cases of abuse and assaults, victimized by family, boyfriends, and Johns. Many of these prostitutes are also prisoners of a massive criminal organization of human trafficking. Another debate of why prostitutes are victims is that a disease of addiction is controlling them. Though at the time these crimes of prostitution are being committed, the judicial system looks at it as a victimless crime, with two consenting parties, there is a victim among

Especially when the two sides consenting are not both legal consenting adults. There are many reasons to consider a prostitute a victim, most prostitutes endure several acts of crime against them, and many are out on the street corners out of necessity verse want. Dr. Melissa Farley, head of the Prostitution Research & Education, says “prostitution is sexual harassment, rape, battering, verbal abuse, domestic violence, a racist practice, a violation of human rights, childhood sexual abuse, and a consequence of male domination of women" (Montaldo, 2017). These women, are forced into a life that they cannot find their way out. A life where society has failed them. They might not necessarily deal with physical abuse in every sexual encounter; there still is a non-visible force that they cannot fight.

There are other reasons to reconsider prostitution as a victimless crime. A harsh and darkened truth of human