Pretty woman was one of the most romantically disturbing movies of all time; a man falls in love with a prostitute. Cute? Yes. Realistic? No. Despite what most people think, in America the prostitution rate is growing, especially male prostitution. Our generation is a very eye-opening, changing, generation. We have to go against the norm, sort of like industrialized hippies. Instead of peace and love, we are searching for change and money. Due to desperate times, some of our society has had to rely on their bodies for keeping up with the era, which has led to illegal prostitution. Most of these people die from disease, or in a dispute with a customer, or ‘pimp’. But I propose to you, what if we legalized prostitution?
Now, of course, we would have to haves strict regulations enforced, but with these regulations we would protect both the customer and the prostitute. First off, there would be numerous sexually transmitted diseases tests conducted each month and also random drug tests. This would be able to discredit the argument of having sex for drugs; instead it would be a business. I know what you are thinking, how cold and inhumane is it to turn such a beautiful natural thing into a business? I reply with this, what isn’t a business anymore? This is no worse than the church requiring tithing, membership fees, and a member log. Everything these days a business, I’m just proposing that the country benefits off of something that will go on no matter what.
IF prostitution was legalized, then this would reduce the murder, battery, assault rates. While also reducing the numbers in our prisons and jails. 78% of prostitutes have been threatened with a weapon, and 82% have been physically assaulted. By having an enforcement their t o protect the women or men, then their would be a great decrease in crime throughout the states.
Prostitution can be traced back to Roman, Greek, and even Egyptian empires, if it has survived this long, their is no way it is going away in the near future just because of the recent laws put in place, illegalizing it. People are driven by sex, it is human to want physical contact, why ban something that will happen anyway? If you ban this, why not ban abortion? Is it not the womans choice in this situation also? We are faced with the issues we had with abortion being illegal, unsafe practices are occuring. The reasoning behind legalizing abortion was because of the following: it prevented unsafe practice, it is the womans choice, and this ended up protecting mother and child. If prostitution was legalized then their wouProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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be a downfall of drug use, and physical abuse.
Morality is no longer something to hold us back in this society. We allow others to kill us, selling us tobacco products, alcohol consumption, and even worse junk food. Basically, homocide is legal in America, but paying for sex is not? It's ridiculous we are basing our moral values off of religion, if you think about it thats what it all boils down to. The defense used is 'God is the founder of America', well no actually he isn't, but still we are focused on what the bible says. So much for seperation between church and state, it is unfair to base the whole countries values off of something that could be entirely untrue. This is sad, but we should believe in money, money is something tangible, something we all benefit from. Whether we admit it or not, its always in the back of our minds. So prostitution shouldnt be challenged morally at all, seeing as how immoral this worlds become, this would just fit right in. Mark Liberator says the following «If critics of prostitution wanted to truly help prostitutes and the neighborhoods where prostitution occurs, they would reconsider their position. Prohibitionists retain their view as a result of moral codes, not because of unbiased scientific study. Research shows the many benefits of legalization. Allowing prohibitionist propaganda to drive laws and the way civil liberties are viewed will guarantee: drug dependency will not be abated, physical abuse will continue, and STDs will spread. Most important, the women who need help will continue their lives on the same harmful paths.»
Another debate amongst the masses is how would we regulate such a business, well, how do you regulate anything? You hire people, which would bring the employment rate up in the long run, more job openings would come into play. Such as we would need a sort of police force, to protect the clients and the prostitute. Furthermore, we would need special clinics set up, where we could train and hire nurses, offer internships, for testing the prostitutes. If legalized, prostitution would be ran just like any other business, view it as a taxi service. You need the drivers, the prostitutes, and then you need a repair shop, the clinics, and finally you need a head behind it all, which instead of a pimp would be a form of police force.
I leave you with this, imagine waking up tomorrow when abortion, ciggarettes, junkfood were illegal, these changes have affected every generation. Its now time to turn an underground business, into a profit for this country.