The Pros And Cons Of Prostitution

Many libertarians today believe that soliciting the service of a professional sex worker is no more essentially wrongful or harmful than any other lines of service work. I believe that prostitution is immoral, and in this essay I will address the various probable reasons as to why prostitution should be reckon as immoral, and also provide that, under certain situations, it can be just as morally acceptable as other lines of occupation. Morality is a controversial ethical issue that is designed to improve survivability in human society, and it is a subjective matter, there’s no right or wrong answer. In my paper, I hope to convince my readers, who may or may not share the same moral presuppositions, that the sex which is exchanged, in prostitution reduces a human being to merely as a sexual object, and the act of prostitution uses one’s body as a commodity or things to be exploited, bought and sold in the market place. In support of these claims, I will develop two arguments in support of my thesis. First, I will argue that prostitution is an exploitative exchange of sexual acts for financial or other means of gains. Second, I will argue that the coercion involved with prostitution, which will give a reason why we ought not to do it.

Prostitution has had a long history, and is seeing as one of the oldest profession. In modern society today, more and more of us accounts prostitution is acceptable in society, but most of us still believe that prostitution is harmful. I am going to start my argument with objectification. To ‘objectify someone’, is same as what the words say, to treat someone as a mere object. According to Nussbaum, “in all cases of objectification what is at issue is… treating one thing as another: One is treating as ...

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...ine the vulnerability involved with the decision, and the emotional harms brought by selling your own body to be violated, he/she might see that, prostitution is seldom beneficial to either side of the parties, or humanity, or the society.

This essay doesn’t have a great deal to say the intrinsic harms and hazards of prostitution. Its facts of the psychological, emotional, societal relating problems cannot be omitted. Exploiting prostitutes is against Kantian’s principle of humanity, because it reflects a coarseness attitude, which can be seen in nonchalant use of the human body as a mere means to achieve some goal. Although both the prostitutes and the client agree on some terms, but the seriousness of moral permissibility in human society cannot be disregarded. And the saying that prostitution is like any other occupation is obscured and ethnically inappropriate.