One problem in criminal justice today is prostitution, a crime that is only illegal because of the Victorian aged puritanical values of the nation. Since people are free to do whatever they wish with their bodies as long as it doesn't involve money for sexual activities, it makes for prostitution to be illegal. A primary goal of laws against prostitution is to deter women from becoming prostitutes but though the criminalization of the act is an attempt to punish prostitutes, it overlooks the reasons why some women go into such a dangerous type of work or lifestyle.If prostitution was legalized, it could be regulated, which would help the women immensely. The women who work the streets usually do it out of desperation, and the least that the government can do is to help them stay safe. Since prostitutes are socially and legally required to hide their activities, determining the number of American women who engage in prostitution is not easy.
Most calculations range between 230,000 and 350,000, but numbers as high as 1,300,000 have been estimated.Either way, a significant number of women currently engage in various forms of prostitution. There are different levels of prostitution, from higher class call girls to streetwalkers. Call girls tend to have higher levels of education, more control over their lives and usually come from privileged backgrounds. They also make substantially more money than streetwalkers. Streetwalkers are the lowest form of prostitution and the women are likely to becontrolled by pimps as well as be subjected to violence more so than other classes of prostitutes.
- There are different levels of prostitution, from higher class call girls to streetwalkers.
- The No. 1 fear of women is rape, and streetwalkers are often raped.
- Most streetwalkers receive little to no healthcare.
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badboy_ripped
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03/30/2009
hmmmm prostitution should deff be legal but not before they they legalize pot XD prostitution is kinda a gross job tho id find so im just goin to stick with strippin:)
Helena
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01/19/2009
Your argument holds no water. The experiment has been tried in Australia and since legalisation there is more violence, more street prostitution, more STDs and more women are forcibly trafficked there from other countries. End of argument.
GING2x
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01/12/2009
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12/26/2008
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Cody
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11/30/2008
I think that prostitution should be legal because of the health risks involved with unsafe sex. If prostitution were legal then everybody would be more safe because it would be regulated. Prostitution is never going to go away, it is one of our most primal instincts to have sex. Some people don't have a girlfriend (or boyfriend for the girls reading this) and they have to meet their needs some how. I say, instead of making prostitution illegal and forcing it underground where it is violent and unsafe, lets make it legal and regulate it so that it is safer for everybody involved.
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11/05/2008
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Prostitution will not help women the majority of them who do this are becoming drug addicts and many of them contract STDs that men married and dating bring home to their girlfriends and wives and not thinking about how unsafe sex is these days.
Starchild
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07/26/2008
People should not be criminalized for offering sexual services or offering to pay for them. It's a reactionary, moralistic crusade that simply drives the business underground, and by creating a black market, attracts more violence and other (real) crime. Furthermore it's a futile waste of taxpayer money, as there is no hope of ever stamping out prostitution. Let's end the second-class citizen status of sex workers and clients and make sure everyone has equal rights and is treated with dignity and afforded the same protections under the law.
Jane
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07/04/2008
Honey I know what you are saying you truly believe that know I took pills and also tried to do my life in when I was 26 years old. I remember looking at my arm and felling the stomic being pumped out and I will never let a man make me feel like I want to die because he out me in prostitution and I was going to never be able to look in the eyes of my children because I was in this life and could not get out. Please do not do any thing to your self no one is worth your life no one . Please be OK it will get better I promise you just ask god to help you at this time in your life. Please try to love your self to stop feeling ;like this know ask for help some Ware please. Jane
Jane
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07/04/2008
I was in Prostitution for 13 yrs and I can tell you all that prostitution is violence to women. And women are not meant to work for some pimp that tells them that they a beautiful and a bunch of shi every day to get there money . Girls you know you hate it now tell the truth. Because I wrot the book on what hell I went through so tell it like it is. Get out if you can? It is harder to get out than getting in. You know what I am saying is the gods truth. The breakingmysilence.net
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