Why Prostitution Should Not Be Decriminalized
Prostitution Should Not Be Legalized/Decriminalized
Topic: The Legalization/Decriminalization of Prostitution in the United States
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: Prostitution should not be legalized/decriminalized in the United States
Thesis: Prostitution should not be legalized, neither decriminalized, for it would only increase the chances of spreading STIs and STDs, broaden the dangerous world of sex trafficking, and control a woman’s decisions rather than strengthen them.
Introduction 1. With the people of America gaining their knowledge of the country they live in and the rights they have, they are explicitly making it known they will not have those rights dismissed or taken at any cost. 2. The right to be in any …show more content…
A. The U.S. Government stood a strong position against prostitution, for they found evidence it was harmful and dehumanizing, as well as fuels human trafficking. B. If prostitution would be legalized, it would not be just decriminalizing the women in the sex industry, but everyone in the sex industry. Pimps could consider themselves legitimate “sexual entrepreneurs” or “third party businessmen.” Brothels, sex clubs, and other places of prostitution will be turned into legitimate venues for attracting consumers of sex, as well as the demand for people needed to do the job. 1. The places that have legalized prostitution were found to have a “greater demand for human trafficking victims” and an increase in the number of “women and children trafficked into commercial sex slavery.” 2. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands to hopefully help end the exploitation of immigrant women that were trafficked into the country but a report found “80% of women in brothels… were trafficked from other countries” and The International Organization of Migration …show more content…
Women have to “adapt to conditions of inequality that are set by the customer who pays her to do what he wants her to do.” B. The calls for the legalization and decriminalization of prostitution is coming from civil liberals who are not forward-thinking about this reform, portraying prostitutes as consenting adults to hide the broad network of traffickers, but also the “extreme sexual, physical and psychological abuse.” C. It can be seen that the abuse experienced in women and girls becomes a persistent reality in prostitution, it is not just unpleasant labor that they have been forced into or have chosen in order to keep living.
1. Women will have to continually lie about their lives, including their bodies and sexual responses. The structure of prostitution is based on the lie that “women like it,” and some prostitution survivors who were able to leave prostitution after years of trying found prostitution wasn’t a free choice because “ to deny their own capacity to choose was to deny
Topic: The Legalization/Decriminalization of Prostitution in the United States
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: Prostitution should not be legalized/decriminalized in the United States
Thesis: Prostitution should not be legalized, neither decriminalized, for it would only increase the chances of spreading STIs and STDs, broaden the dangerous world of sex trafficking, and control a woman’s decisions rather than strengthen them.
Introduction 1. With the people of America gaining their knowledge of the country they live in and the rights they have, they are explicitly making it known they will not have those rights dismissed or taken at any cost. 2. The right to be in any …show more content…
A. The U.S. Government stood a strong position against prostitution, for they found evidence it was harmful and dehumanizing, as well as fuels human trafficking. B. If prostitution would be legalized, it would not be just decriminalizing the women in the sex industry, but everyone in the sex industry. Pimps could consider themselves legitimate “sexual entrepreneurs” or “third party businessmen.” Brothels, sex clubs, and other places of prostitution will be turned into legitimate venues for attracting consumers of sex, as well as the demand for people needed to do the job. 1. The places that have legalized prostitution were found to have a “greater demand for human trafficking victims” and an increase in the number of “women and children trafficked into commercial sex slavery.” 2. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands to hopefully help end the exploitation of immigrant women that were trafficked into the country but a report found “80% of women in brothels… were trafficked from other countries” and The International Organization of Migration …show more content…
Women have to “adapt to conditions of inequality that are set by the customer who pays her to do what he wants her to do.” B. The calls for the legalization and decriminalization of prostitution is coming from civil liberals who are not forward-thinking about this reform, portraying prostitutes as consenting adults to hide the broad network of traffickers, but also the “extreme sexual, physical and psychological abuse.” C. It can be seen that the abuse experienced in women and girls becomes a persistent reality in prostitution, it is not just unpleasant labor that they have been forced into or have chosen in order to keep living.
1. Women will have to continually lie about their lives, including their bodies and sexual responses. The structure of prostitution is based on the lie that “women like it,” and some prostitution survivors who were able to leave prostitution after years of trying found prostitution wasn’t a free choice because “ to deny their own capacity to choose was to deny