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Legalizing Prostitution

Introduction

Many scholars have considered prostitution to be one of the world’s oldest professions that were

and is still practiced today. Prostitution can be deemed to as the practice or rather the occupation of

engaging in sexual practices with someone for payment or in exchange for certain favors. Socially

it’s considered to be unworthy, or rather the unethical way of one using their body for personal or

financial gains. For as long as we can recall evidence can be retrieved of people selling their bodies

for some gains or favors. You can also agree with me that during the colonial period when the

colonies we moving around manipulating the natives they would also enjoy the pleasures of local

prostitutes where the prostitutes would get a favor of not being manipulated.

Back in history, it’s also proven that people would have wives for the purpose of bearing offspring

as well as been charged with the responsibility of being reliable guardians for household and

property but they would also have concubines and prostitutes for pleasure satisfaction. Throughout

this case study, we are going to have a close look at the reasons behind the legalization of

prostitution as well as the challenges that come along with the anticipation of legalizing

prostitution.

Reasons for Legalizing Prostitution

Our current century has brought with it a broad and a diversified range of changes where it gives us

the opportunity to view the various phenomena of how things happen on a different perspective

than we used to consider them before. During this era, people should be freer minded as well being

able to adjust to any change and not being limited by what people believe. Prostitution has been a

public secret for the longest time in history where no one talks about it but perceives it as an act

that is socially condemned, but the truth of the matter is that people should open their eyes widely

and face the truth of the matter (Mossman, 9).

People should also try and see things from an objective point of view. Today sex work or rather

prostitution has created an overwhelming controversy on whether or not to legalize prostitution

without forgetting the controversial laws on prostitution. Although there has been movements as

well as organizational bodies that have taken the responsibility of fighting for the rights of sexual

workers who have been violated for the longest time it has taken another cause of action where a

debate has come up for the intervention of the government (Radatz, 16).

Legalization of prostitution is one of the hotly controversial topics that will continue to be more

controversial over the years. Personally, I see prostitution somewhat from a different perspective.

Individuals have sex for quite a large number of reasons with some of them being for fun and

pleasure as well, as a career to earn a living, to have children, maybe for intimacy among other

reasons. It is a human right for people to have sex for one or even all of the above reasons without

being denied the freedom. Recent research found that a large number of the people who engage in

sexual work are forced to do so by life circumstances such as poverty. People turning to sexual

work can be considered too as anyone who turns to a manual or hard labor work like construction,

domestic and farm work and so on. The only difference with this type of laborers is the fact that

they are using different parts of their body to earn a living. All livelihood professional options are

based on people using some parts of their bodies to generate income. Sexual work should be

legalized considering that all other formal and informal forms of generating revenue and income

have being sanctioned only living out the sex work form of labor. Therefore it’s the high time for

various government stakeholders to recognized sexual work legally which is long overdue as well

as benefiting different parties (Bishakha, web).

Legalization of sexual work will give the government to be part and parcel of the sex industry as a

third party. With the government as a third party, it will open an opportunity for easy regulation as

well as an easy amendment and implementation of laws that govern the sex workers as any other

formal or informal worker. Through legalization, the government will control the industry under

certain regimes reduced into precise specifications. Some of these specifications can be licensing,

and registration of sex workers which can be managed by the judicial or a municipal authority or

even government authorized independent specialist boards (Mossman, 12).

Management of this industry is crucial since it will protect these workers from violation since it is a

day to day nightmare where we hear a particular sex worker has been brutally violated. Mandatory

registration will also give the government the opportunity to conduct often health checkups for the

purpose of ensuring these workers work under normal conditions. It will also reduce the number of

STD infections since safe sex will be taken into consideration as a mandatory requirement

(Mossman, 12).

Legalization will also give the government a chance to cover or rather ensure that all parties

involved are equally served. Prostitution-related laws vary greatly when it comes to various

jurisdictions since they include legislation that governs the sex workers, laws governing the third

party or rather the parties involved in the regulation and management of the sex worker and lastly

laws governing those purchasing commercial sex. Although these statutes from different

jurisdictions in that what is legal in one jurisdiction may be found to be illegal in another

jurisdictional level, in the long run, they serve a huge part of protection to the parties involved. In

case any of the party involved is violated then the set laws will be applied as the offender faces the

law under the present jurisdiction as well as taking responsibility for their crime. Age constraints

will apply here allowing only the required age to participate in the practice, therefore, discouraging

sex trafficking of underage (Mossman, 13-14).

Soliciting and loitering for the purpose of acquiring sex is also another issue that commercial sex

workers face since they don’t have a designated place to conduct their profession. Therefore

legalization of prostitution will give the government to regulate designated areas or rather brothels

that will be charged with the responsibility of regulating and governing the status and position of

prostitutes. The brothels will also be able to protect their workers from forced sex, protecting their

mental and physical integrity; they will also be able to avoid the employment of minors in practice

(Gibly, 5).

Equal pay for equal performance will also be an achievement which has been a challenge facing

commercial sex workers. Brothels will also give the public administration of both the local and

state government the opportunity to conduct screening of the employees for the purpose of

ensuring they work under updated licenses and revoke them in instances of refusal to renewal or

even in cases where the worker has broken the law. Also with the sexual workers operating from

the brothels, it makes it easier for the government to observe and monitor these practices compared

to the participants working from different places which become so messy to manage and operate

the industry (Gibly, 5-6).

Legalization will also result in increased national income. This is due because the commercial sex

workers will earn income which will lead to improved living standards, therefore, increasing on the

spending habits. The government will also receive revenue from the sex workers since the

commercial sex workers are customers to the brothels as well as taxpayers therefore at the long run

they are still involved in generating the national economy (Gibly, 6).

Because sex is a part of human nature, individuals will always find means on how to satisfy their

bodily desires even if it means to pay a person to participate in the act of satisfaction. Therefore,

legalization of prostitution n will ensure safety precautions are met for example through licensing

as we have seen above the on renewal or even on the regular health checkups the sex workers will

be followed up and made sure that they stay healthy (Bishakha, web).

Normally, in any formal or informal forms of professions safety and precaution is one of the major

factors that helps ensure that the working conditions are adaptable for the purpose of increasing

productivity. The same case with commercial sex workers who need to have a well-managed work

environment which will help them to identify any unhealthy condition and finding a way on how to

eliminate them (Bishakha, web).

Legalization will stop sex crime that has been a song of years to come and go. The controversial

argument that prostitution should be legalized since it ignores moral facts is a thing of the past

regarding the fact that some of the commercial sex workers always are sexually violated.

Legalization will help in reducing the number of cases that are as a result of sexually related

crimes. It will also reduce the rising number of pimps who carry on with forceful sexual practices

and taking part in sharing the earnings of the prostitutes. Some of them even violate the human

rights of these workers. According to recent research the same prostitute is arrested at an

approximation of 30 times a year due to Soliciting and loitering for the purpose of looking for

clients willing to engage in their practices (Gibly, 6).

Upon legalization, various organizations can be set up for the purpose of managing and regulating

these operations hence reducing the number of arrests. Consequently, prostitution has to be a

historical phenomenon that was there since before and is still there even now. Legalizing this

historical phenomenon will make it be a normal day to day business since it hasn’t been in a

position to be stopped even upon set against the law (Gibly, 6).

Violation of human right comes in when prostitution is illegalized since prostitution comes from

one’s will and basic inherent rights because it revolves around voluntary sale or rental of sex.

Voluntary prostitution should eliminate the justification for government intervention as well as

interference to illegalizing prostitution. Such government intervention will any lead to the violation

of personal liberty and privacy of the people involved. However, the government has a major role

to play in the commercial sex market of ensuring that the participants only engage from free will or

rather voluntary without being forced (Bishakha, web).

Challenges Facing Legalization of Commercial Sex

Although the society has the notion that every individual has rights to choose the kind of lifestyle

to live they also believes that societal moral values should be highly upheld. It goes without saying

that commercial sex involves individuals to have sex with different partners an act that is immoral

and unethical to some societies and culture as well. Legalization of Commercial sex work is

always going to be challenged by societal moral values and beliefs in spite the dynamic change of

time that gives us the opportunity to view things from a different perspective. Commercial sex is a

practice that violates religious beliefs; therefore it is a practice that has been despised over the

years since it distorts traditional and cultural values, corrupting humanity as well as violating

biblical teachings (Dianne, web).

Prostitution is related to crime problems since it connects with various local groups who are known

as pimps who conduct prostitution as a business running it as per their terms. Here the involved

parties will be violated in some ways like being forced into prostitution, using drugs, overworking

the employees, low payment is also another factor which they may face since the pimps split the

money giving the workers a very low pay (Dianne, web).

Human trafficking is also another challenge that comes along with legalizing prostitution. A large

number of the parties involved in prostitution globally are as a result of human trafficking,

kidnapping, and children abducting which are conducted by this pimp groups. Since prostitution is

legalized, these groups will force the participants of prostitution threatening them with their lives

for the purpose of inflicting fear in them. Those involved in the prostitution of this kind will face

lots of suffering and torture since they fear for their lives if at all they report to the authority. Not

only will legalizing of prostitution increase on the level of crime but rather will make it a regular

thing that will keep on happening at a furious rate (Dianne, web).

In conclusion, in spite the challenges facing the legalization of prostitution, as it is considered to be

an immoral and socially unaccepted practice the government should consider legalizing the

practice due to the above-stated reasons. Concerning the fact that both men and women are

considering getting into the profession, bearing in mind that they know what they are getting

themselves into, they all have their rights which ought to be respected without any violation.

Consequently, it’s sad that this profession is wrong and results to societal moral decadence it has

its own reasons as to why it should be legalized but to some people, it is a ray that brings joy and

lights their bleak worlds.

Work Cited:

Bishakha Datta and Post Dianne, “Should Prostitution be Legalized?” New Internationalist

Magazine, (2013, April), web… https://newint.org/features/2013/04/01/should-

prostitution-be-legalized-argument/

Dr. Mossman Elaine, “International Approaches to Decriminalizing or Legalizing Prostitution,”

Victoria University of Wellington, (2007, October), web…

http://prostitution.procon.org/sourcefiles/newzealandreport.pdf

Gibly N. Jess, “Safe Sex for Sale: Legalizing Sex Work,” Portland State University, (2012,

October), web…

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ijurca

Radatz Dana Lynn, “Systematic Approach to Prostitution Laws,” Eastern Michigan University,

(2009. January), web...

http://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=theses

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