Prostitution Legalizing Prostitution There Is a Certain

Prostitution Legalizing Prostitution There is a certain stigma that surrounds sex work that has been present throughout history. However, there are also exceptions to such cultures that frame prostitution in an entirely different light. Despite your moral opinion about the legitimacy of prostitution, there are many significant benefits to be had by legalizing and regulating the profession.

Not only would there be increased revenue for public funding generated from the taxation of such a practice, but it also can provide a safer environment for both the sex workers as well as sex consumers. Despite efforts to criminalize prostitution, the profession has not, or will ever, disappear. Rather, by forcing prostitutes to go underground, you subject the public to significant health and safety risks as well as endanger women in general.

This brief paper will argue that there are many benefits to society that can be gained in the middle ground of the debate about the legitimacy of prostitution. Body Sex work is legitimate work and problems within the industry are not inherent in the work itself; it is vulnerability, not sex work, which creates victims (Lopes, 2006). Sex workers should enjoy the same labor rights as other workers and the same human rights as other people.

However disturbing the idea of commercial sex may be to some of us, it's naive to believe that prostitution can ever be eliminated; the demand will be met with supply one way or another, no matter what is legislated (Albert, 2004). Therefore, by making the profession legitimate, there is the opportunity to help women. By legalizing prostitution, not only do women have the ability to unionize and create better working environments, but they would also be afforded many other types of protections.

There has been an assumption in the literature that because sex workers have multiple sexual partners they are automatically a health risk rather than framing the possibility that their access to a hard to reach population of male clients could present a gateway for information transfer and behavior change however the evidence of the legalized brothel system in Nevada highlights that sex work environments that are legitimated and bureaucratized have the effect of empowering sex workers to control their working conditions and interactions with clients (Sanders T., 2000).

When women are given legitimacy then they are also empowered to control their work environment and thus could significantly reduce the risk of transmitting sexually transmitted diseases. There is some debate about whether the role of being a sex worker has implications for mental health of the workers. There has been some evidence to suggest that it does and items such as depression rates have been found to be higher among some samples of sex workers.

However, given the illegitimacy of how prostitution is treated in many cultures, this provides a somewhat biased sample in most studies. Since in countries like the U.S. prostitution is illegal, then it is usually a last resort for a job and people only work in the profession when they have few alternate options.

With the underlying assumption that women do not choose to work in prostitution but only use it as a 'survival strategy,' only the extreme ends of coercive prostitution are described (Sanders, 2006) In countries such as Amsterdam, however, the culture and legality are far different. One study used an example of "indoor" sex worker as opposed to street walkers in Amsterdam.

This study provided evidence that female indoor sex workers in the Netherlands do not exhibit a higher level of work-related emotional exhaustion or a lower level of work-related personal competence than a comparison group of female health care workers (mostly nurses) (Romans, 2001). Therefore, when the culture is accepting of this type of work then the prostitutes will most likely not have any direct mental health damage from their employment. Conclusion Prostitution has been around as long as recorded history.

There is no reason to believe whatsoever that the practice will ever be completely eliminated. For this reason, it is entirely reasonable that societies base their.