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Summary: Criminalization And Decriminalization Of Prostitution

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Generally, there are three distinct options towards prostitution: criminalization, legalizing and decriminalizing. Prostitution is criminalized in most parts of the United States, based in the religious view that selling sex is wrong. The sexworker’s job is seen as immoral and is therefore labeled as a criminal behavior. Selling sex is criminalized. Those who support criminalization are centered on the argument that alternatives would adversely affect American moral. (Dempsey, 2002) There is a flip side to criminalizing: criminalizing the demand. This policy makes buying sex illegal, in the places that this is implemented it is believed that limiting demand will stop supply and ultimately lead to the abolition of the world’s oldest profession.

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