| Now don't misunderstand me, I don't go to prostitutes for sex. Furthermore I don't wish to see my wife, daughter, mother or any other family member doing this kind of work. But shouldnt people have the right to do what they want with their own bodies? The plane fact is that anti prostitution laws do nothing to enforce morality (which is not the government's business anyway). But rather it punishes women and others who are trying to make a living.
The law says they are trying to protect women but is this what the laws are really about? Women who prostitute themselves do so because they ether 1) Think its an easy way to make money, which involves very little skill. Just use their natural, God given talents and their good looks, or 2) Have no other way of earning a living.
If the government really cares about the women (or men) doing this line of work than they should provide the work oportunities so these individuals do not have to walk the streets. There should be ways for individuals to support themselves and their children so they don't have to turn to any "immoral" ways to support themselves. This means providing jobs, educational opportunities and unemployment benifits. Provide inexpensive housing and public health care.
What will be left over would be women and men who do this work voluntarily.
The benifits woudl be:
1) Elimination of illegal activity such as child prostitution, "white slavery" and control of the sex industry by organized crime syndicates.
2) Better control of Venerial Diseases, HIV, Genetal Herpes, Syphilis etc.
3) Increase the Tax base.
4) A descrease in sex crimes.
Keep in mind that in most of Europe and Asia, legalized but carefully regulated prostitution has been a success. |