Shelby Pender
Fraiser
Honor English III
26 February 2018 Why should prostitution not be legal? Prostitution should not be legal for many reasons. The main reason are violence and rape. Diseases are also a main reason. Prostitutes are abducted and beaten daily by pimps. They are also held hostage in homes or warehouses. Prostitution affects many women around the world with mental and physical abuse. (would) Prostitution is one of the biggest and richest businesses in the world. It makes around 186 billion dollars worldwide. Each woman can be sold for about 90 dollars. Children can go for more. I think that this is wrong, and that sex should be kept in marriage. I also think it would lessen sex trafficking. (would) Prostitutes work for mostly drugs. Statistics say that 16% of prostitutes steal money or other things from the customers. 75% of prostitutes were also abused as children and it leads to the drug abuse and life style changes. This shows how parents can affect their kids with verbal or physical abuse. I think that parents should treat their children better so that we can avoid this. (Statistic) I also believe a reason it should not be legal is because some women that are involved
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About 250 prostitutes are having unprotected sex and are spreading it. The women that are affected with it cannot receive the help they need. Diseases and problems like this is the biggest problem and why it should not be legalized. (would) Immigration is also a big reason. Immigrants are abducted and taken to American to be old every day. This shows that prostitution leads to human trafficking. I think this is sad because women should not be the ones who get in trouble and deported for something they could not control. They were also taken from their homes and moved across the world to be abused and taken advantage of. The immigrants would also be fined and could serve jail time for this even if it was not their
More often than not, many prostitutes don’t choose this line of work for no reason, many are forced into this lifestyle just to provide for themselves and family. A 2015 article further explains, “Poverty is the primary driving force behind women becoming prostitutes…. Throughout the world there are limited and extremely scarce opportunities for women who are uneducated and impoverished….There is no requirement for being a sex worker. It requires no education, no references and no experience.”
Child sexual abuse is especially prevalent in victims of domestic sex trafficking, with around 65 to 80 % of victims reporting some sort of childhood sexual abuse such as rape or incest (Countryman-Roswurm, Bolin 2014). Looking at victims’ past trauma history, they are often susceptible to recruiting that involves techniques such as seduction, coercion, and promise of protection occurring at shopping malls, arcades, bus, and even schools (Kotrla, 2010). Historical analysis and theory In the past, prostitution was generally viewed as a “moral or ethical” problem with little acknowledgement of age or coercion (Koltra 2010). Prostitution has a history of being perceived as legally deplorable, and part of the difficulty with enacting laws that
Myrtle Beach is an ideal vacation spot during all times of the year, especially during the summer months when school is out. One problem that can occur during these vacation periods is human trafficking. North and South Carolina are in the top 10 worst states for human/sex trafficking. This has been a problem for the past 10 years in these states. Many locals are scared for their children’s safety after all these trafficking cases have occurred by their homes.
Sex Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. It is one of the biggest lies in society (Farley et., 2014). The Vanderbilt Law Review indicates that the majority of prostitutes do not enter the prostitution lifestyle on their own free will choice, but instead becomes a prostitute due to a variety of vulnerabilities that both pimps and traffickers exploit. This explains why young women get blindsided and think they are becoming a prostitute when in reality they are a sex trafficking victim (Elrod 2015). When the United States made prostitution illegal, it did not change the mentality of the johns.
With this being said, it is clear that women and young girls are typically the most at risk when it comes to commercial sexual exploitation. In this category of trafficking, traffickers act as “pimps” and sell these women like prostitutes. These victims are made to perform sexual favors to make their captor or captors a profit. Most of these crimes go unseen and
Prostitution is a widely recognized topic, anyone and anywhere can get involved into this line of work with just one thing, themselves. Do the men, women and children really have a choice whether or not they want to use their bodies to earn a living? Or are they forced by outside influences that make them have no other choice. Preliminary research covered numerous topics about prostitution; When the victims started and why they started was not uncovered by these findings. There have not been a sufficient interviews with these subjects to
Often, violence is found in prostitution. A study shows that “Of the 116 sex workers who
Prostitution has been around for thousands of years, earning its title as “the oldest profession” (Kolodny) Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, he mentions prostitution numerous times and describes the places, people, and aspects of the job. Furthermore, he describes Kate’s time in profession, including the types of men she sees, the building she works in, and the details of her boss and coworkers. He describes the struggles that the owners face and the complexity of running the house. Steinbeck describes the job as an undesirable but viable career choice, far different from what it is viewed as today.
Today 's continuously evolving world is the breeding ground for many legal issues, surfacing and flourishing into numerous controversial debates. Among these regular disputes, the topic of prostitution and it 's legalization is one of the most prominent ones. Countless diagreements emerge when trying to argue whether prostitution should be legal or not, and ultimately it is a battle between the importance of having a personal choice, and the morals possessed by the the society we live in. Oftentimes, it becomes very difficult to come to a definite decision on a serious topic like this, just like the topic of aborition, same-sex marriage, and the legalization of drugs have all been controversial and highly debated topics in the past.
According to Prostitution Research: 70-95 percent of prostitutes experience physical assault during work; 60-75 percent of prostitutes are raped while working as a prostitute; and 95 percent of prostitutes
It disables women to find love, get married and have children. Therefore it can be implied that the trade of prostitution degrades a women’s life and disables them to live a happy
• Women and children abuse in prostitution experience severe and long lasting physical and mental health problem. • Prostitution is harmful in and of itself, i.e. the constantly repeated experience of submitting to unwanted sex is very damaging to women mental health, self-esteem and sexuality. • Having to endure unwanted sex leads to the need to be set apart, often using drugs and for alcohol. • Many women involved in street prostitution do not care of their children. This has a strong impact on the woman themselves and is a common issue they need support through services.
Prostitutes are people, too. Prostitution is such a complex issue; no one ever scratches the surface of sex work. Prostitution is commonly known as the world 's oldest profession yet has been outlawed in forty-nine out of the fifty states in the United States. Legal-prostitution can require all sex workers to practice safe sex as well as get tested frequently to reduce the spread of diseases. Reduction of violence against women starts with the availability of sex.
The United Nations’ Convention held in 1949, stated prostitution to be “incompatible with human dignity”. According to the Oxford Dictionary, prostitution is defined as "The practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment." Often referred to as the “oldest profession” in the world, prostitution has become a burning issue in today’s world. The ongoing debate on whether to legalize, criminalize or decriminalize prostitution seems to be quite unresolvable. This paper investigates the negative impacts of legalizing prostitution such as 1) encouragement of prostitution, 2) increase in the incidence of human trafficking and 3) exposure of prostitutes to severe harm such as drug abuse, infection from sexually transmitted diseases and violence, which clearly supports the fact that prostitution should not be legalized.
Sex trafficking is a major issue in the world and people often overlook the fact that it can be an issue in the most modern and advanced first world countries. This is the modern term for slavery of people for purposes including forced sex and labor. Sex trafficking is one of the most exclusive and most advanced types of slavery and is often gone unseen or unnoticed. This problem can cause many people to have low self-esteem and problems with their health. The low self-esteem is often caused because the people are raised or built to understand that they have no worth and that they are meant for nothing but to be raped and to do work without pay.