Legalizing Prostitution Persuasive Essay
English 1A
Prostitution has been called the world’s oldest profession, so it’s safe to say it’s not going away anytime soon. As of right now, Nevada is the only state which has legalized prostitution. In the rest of the United States, however, the social problems experienced under the current laws prohibiting prostitution include transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), excessive amounts spent on prosecuting offenders, and the risks involved for women working alone on the streets. It is my view that legalizing prostitution would not only protect sex workers and their clients, but if properly regulated would provide revenue for both cities and government agencies while empowering women who choose prostitution as their profession as to avoid white slavery. Historically, prostitution has been a gateway from which has sprouted drug abuse, violence, and sexually-transmitted diseases from unprotected sex. Women and underage girls are often drawn into becoming prostitutes by individuals known as pimps, who then control them with drug addiction and physical abuse. The legalization of prostitution with Government regulated brothel’s and regular (STD) testing, would eliminate the street sex trade and the pimps who control it. The State of Nevada currently has eleven counties with regulated legalized …show more content…
Feminists seek to be supportive of sex workers while deploring the work itself as inherently wrong.” Radical feminists do not depict prostitution as a victimless crime, and as a whole feel that prostitution is just one more way for men to make themselves superior and to control women in a sexual and degrading fashion. “They [radical feminists] assert the inherent immorality of prostitution by defining its wrongness in terms of its corrupting influence on the dignity of all women”
Prostitution has been called the world’s oldest profession, so it’s safe to say it’s not going away anytime soon. As of right now, Nevada is the only state which has legalized prostitution. In the rest of the United States, however, the social problems experienced under the current laws prohibiting prostitution include transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), excessive amounts spent on prosecuting offenders, and the risks involved for women working alone on the streets. It is my view that legalizing prostitution would not only protect sex workers and their clients, but if properly regulated would provide revenue for both cities and government agencies while empowering women who choose prostitution as their profession as to avoid white slavery. Historically, prostitution has been a gateway from which has sprouted drug abuse, violence, and sexually-transmitted diseases from unprotected sex. Women and underage girls are often drawn into becoming prostitutes by individuals known as pimps, who then control them with drug addiction and physical abuse. The legalization of prostitution with Government regulated brothel’s and regular (STD) testing, would eliminate the street sex trade and the pimps who control it. The State of Nevada currently has eleven counties with regulated legalized …show more content…
Feminists seek to be supportive of sex workers while deploring the work itself as inherently wrong.” Radical feminists do not depict prostitution as a victimless crime, and as a whole feel that prostitution is just one more way for men to make themselves superior and to control women in a sexual and degrading fashion. “They [radical feminists] assert the inherent immorality of prostitution by defining its wrongness in terms of its corrupting influence on the dignity of all women”