Legalizing Prostitution: Should we or not?

Prostitution is the act of getting into sexual relations for a fee and is also referred to as commercial sex. While this act is unchecked in many parts of the world, its legality varies in different countries. Some countries in Europe such as Netherlands and Germany have legalized prostitution. Other governments like Thailand, legally prohibit prostitution activities and enterprises. In Sweden country, they taken a different legal approach-penalizing the buyers while at the same time decriminalizing the women in prostitution. Most of the countries are prohibit prostitution activities and should we legalizing prostitution in the future? I think we should not legalizing prostitution because legalizing prostitution would lead to increases in sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, global human trafficking and instilling immorality to society.

Prevent is better than cure

Legalizing prostitution can promote the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDs and STDs can be contracted from having multiple partners. Once prostitution is legalized, it can encourage more people to solicit sex and commit infidelity. Moreover some people are not keen into using protection therefore STDs may rapid spread in the country as the infection passed from one person to another person through sexual contact. This is not only hurt the prostitute and the buyer (customer), but also harm the innocent people close around such as spouse and children. Some STIs can be cured and some STIs cannot be cured, this will definitely affect our next generation.

The presence of an adult sex industry increases both the rates of human trafficking. According to one of the article (In World Development, Jan 2013), they are investigating the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. The scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market and therefore increasing human trafficking. The empirical analysis for a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human trafficking inflows. In short, legalizing prostitution will encourage to human trafficking. Therefore we should not legalizing prostitution activities in order to prevent the global human trafficking criminal rate increase. Furthermore, human trafficking and prostitution activities are normally managed by criminal underworld. If we prohibit prostitution activities can also avoid strengthen the empowers of criminal underworld.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after

Although we are advocate to have open-minded and avant-garde thinking in 21^st century, but should we or not to legalizing prostitution is a topic of concerning about morality. Many times people become prostitutes only because they are uneducated and lacked good opportunities in life. Those with a sad reasons behind, is this excusable? We shouldn't be teaching others that it is an acceptable way of life. Some people become prostitutes because they think that this is the way to earn fast cash compare to common work but selling the body for material gain is unacceptable. If it's a matter of morals, I contend that prostitution is inherently immoral. Sex should be between lovers, not between two strangers. The Government should not legalizing prostitution, in fact they should instilling the positive thinking and the correct morality to the society.

From then till now, the debate for the decriminalization of prostitution is endless. Because there is always have different opinions from people when it comes to legality, morality and health concern. Whether legal or illegal, prostitution doesn't stop the spread of disease as well as the disintegration of the culture, society, and nation. We should opposed to anything that would legalize the purchasing of sex by buyers. We should opposed to pimping being legal. We should opposed to brothel keeping being legal. We should create a sense that buying sex from a woman is socially unacceptable and legally unacceptable. Last but not least, life is never easy. A woman will not voluntary to be a prostitute, unless it is forced to. We should not irreverence any job or any trade but do not take it as lifelong career.

Quote: Human always have freedom to choose the life they want. Women, take care and love yourself!

List of references:

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• Legalized Prostitution Debate | Debate.org. 2016. Legalized Prostitution Debate | Debate.org. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.debate.org/legalized-prostitution/. [Accessed 19 April 2016].
• Immordino, G., 2015. Regulating prostitution: A health risk approach. In Journal of Public Economics, 121, P14-31.
• Cho, Seo-Young, 2013. Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?. In World Development, 41, P67-82.
• Niemi, Johanna, 2010. What We Talk About When We Talk About Buying Sex. Violence Against Women, Vol. 16 Issue 2, P159-172.