Pros And Cons Of Legalization Of Sex Work Essay

This panic has resulted from the fractious and polarized debates over the moral status of sex work: prohibition or regulation. Enormous data, opinion, facts, are available, on either side. This debate has occupied the energies of international agencies, nation states, NGOs, feminist researchers and activists and finds expression in a plethora of legal and regulatory projects. The examples include the 2000 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking Against Persons at the international level; the 2002 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Combating the Crime of Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution at the regional level; and the 2000 Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, An U.S. domestic law with international ramifications.

For the purpose of this article, I will merely locate myself as interested in theorizing sex work as work, which falls back on the liberal discourse around choice,

The apex court, presided by a two-judge bench, said no legislation anywhere in the world had successfully managed to stop the sex trade, and legalizing it would allow authorities to "monitor the trade, rehabilitate and provide medical aid to those involved". We have examples of cities like Las Vegas , where legalization has decreased the violence faced by sex workers. Countries like Germany , Ediburgh and Netherland have regulated sex trade by introducing sex work zone, which is proving to highly beneficial to the sex suppliers where as reports from outreach health care projects from USA, Canada and Germany shows adverse implication of prohibition law enactment. Lalitha Kumaramangalam, chairperson of National commission of women, had proposed to legalize prostitution and the proposal was supposed to be put forth in the National Consultation scheduled to be held on Nov 8,2014. But there has not been any progress