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Prostitution should definitely be legal and regulated. Many people are wanting without an involved relationship. Maybe it would reduce our very rate of rape in US. With that must come healthcare for all. Sexworkers must have access to regular healthcare.

If there is someone providing a service, and someone willing to pay for that service, I think a free market economy should allow it.

All relationships are transactional. People trade sex for power, money, influence, security, ego and, in the best situations, for genuine love. Love makes sex much more intimate and enjoyable. Prostitution is facilitated masturbation.

To my way of thinking, Melania Trump sold her body to a disgusting old bastard incapable of loyalty or honestly. Yeah, she did it for money.

Should prostitution be legal? Why not?

Should prostitution envolving silicon dolls be declared illegal?

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Distasteful ... I guess this term can easily be applied to many situations. I am pretty sure that the vast majority of meat eaters would describe the atmosphere in a slaughterhouse as distasteful. The effects of war are distasteful as is the situation of millions of people around the world who barely survive scouring through piles of garbage. Many job are distasteful.
As I child I felt anally violated, and literally was, when my mother pushed a suppository up my tiny butthole. Luckily I was usually anally retentive enough to keep it. Well it was for health reasons.
Just the way you think of the distasteful activity of prostitution.
Honestly I am baffled by this juxtaposition.
I know of many jobs that are even more "distasteful" than prostituion. Actually every paid work is a form of prostituion. Why does it matter so much what part of one's body one uses to generate an income?
Increasingly the states rely on mercenaries to do the dirty killing on their behalf ... That is not just distasteful but frankly disgusting.

It is an honorable profession & making it legal will provide proper health care for everyone. There needs to be a red light district for everyones safety too. It becomes a job with taxes that are a part of the system.

Exploitation of another human being, as in a pimp exploiting women, is extremely distasteful. Sexual exploitation of minors is distastefuly criminal and it should have a sentence of 25 to life for every count (I don’t favor the death penalty). But if we are talking about two perfectly consenting adults, then it should be perfectly legal. Illegality is one element that allows pimps to exploit women. Now, I know this will bring me the wrath of many, but here it is: since women withhold sex from men as some sort of weapon or bargaining chip, women will be the ones most opposed to legalizing the exchange of sex for something of material value. And of course there will be the argument of the dignity. That is a question that can only be answered by the parts involved. Additionally, the legal exchange of sex for something of material value already exists covertly, and here is the proof: can any heterosexual male reading this deny that access to sex with a woman always involves some cost?

In parts of Europe (Germany) it is legal and the workers come under the government. They get benefits and retirement. I remember a case where a new house opened and the old house sued. The judge said there was plenty of business for everyone and threw the case out.

I am a retired nurse with a business degree, well educated and have a beautiful home. I am divorced.
I choose to do what I do because I enjoy meeting men that lie about me not to me.
I also enjoy helping men understand their sexuality from a nurses prospective. The money is great.
I would love to be legal but not regulated, I know that is asking for to much!!!

I personally believe that this is also a victim-less crime as long as the woman makes her own decision to engage in it and is properly compensated. This is another choice issue for women. Now forced prostitution and violent pimps who keep most of the money should be illegal. But I don't see any difference between a woman providing this service in exchange for money than "prostituting" herself for 70% (or less) of what a man gets paid for any other kind of job.

Anything illegal is susceptible to crime. The "war on drugs" is a great example of how illegality has corrupted enforcers, endangered the general population, and increased the supply and cost.
People want to fuck without commitment. How is that wrong?
Currently human-trafficking is mostly about sex.
Law enforcers should be focused on those activities that really are the most immoral. Taking drugs, having sex,... are not immoral, just illegal.
Driving while intoxicated is immoral. Abducting girls for sex and for forced marriage is immoral.

Like anything else, illegalizing something (like drugs) only brings in the criminal element, and makes it more difficult if not impossible to aid those ordinary people who get caught up in it.

It’s been around forever and we’re not going to stop it so why should it be illegal. What 2 consenting adults do when it comes to sex shouldn’t be any of the governments bussiness.

I would be in favour of making prostitution legal in order to be able to impose controls, for the moment. Broadly speaking I am against prostitution because I think very few of the women (and male prostitutes too) who are involved are doing it because they want to. Many prostitutes have been trafficked for that purpose and lead terrible lives. Many others are driven into it by poverty. I agree with the person below who suggested that if we could eradicate poverty, we would find that there were very few prostitutes remaining.

Prostitution has long been commonly referred to as the oldest profession in the world. No culture, religion, or government entity has been able to eradicate it. Legalizing the sex-trade would put in regulations and safeguards to reduce abuse and the spread of disease. Legalizing would free up resources and allow law enforcement to concentrate on child sex-exploitation.

I’m afraid there will always be a criminal element in the sex-trade industry. Legalizing it may at least keep it at a more controllable level.

The porn industry has grown with the introduction of the Internet. Escort services and Sugar Baby sites have exploded. Nudity and sex in the movie industry are commonplace. Sex is not the taboo subject it once was with booty calls and friends with benefits, is it any wonder that sex has become a commodity.

When it is possible to make more money in an evening than working a "legit" job for a month it becomes easy to understand that it is a viable option for some. College and University students carrying heave debt with limited job/career options can easily be persuaded to consider prostitution as an option.

Legalise.

I just can't support it. I don't like the idea of sex in any form. Something about prostitution seems wrong. The idea of a man buying a woman's body as if it were a commodity, it's too much.

The oldest living profession has and will always be around. Europe does very nicely with it and the crime rate is way down as far as sex crimes and other pent up episodes. I know some people who refer to Marriage as being legal prostitution. I always liked the expression "He doesn't get laid, he gets fucked." Think about it.

If someone wishes to be a prostitute, then I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to. However, I do think that there should be some laws put into place to protect those involved, for instance, mandatory use of protection and frequent std testing. I also think it is important to make sure they are not being forced into it.

No Vote, a tough, toxic subject. Is prostitution needed? Eliminate the pimp and I will consider. No user and I did 20 years in the Navy. My concern/question is purpose.

Correct choice: decriminalize

Keep it illlegal. That way prostitution would never happen.

The correct answer is: decriminalization. It's not sufficient to 'make it legal' or to make it partially legal.

Hmm, there is a good TED talk about this:

[npr.org]

This goes into a couple of issues related to stigma, prostitution being one of them and it's a fascinating... er... read(?) which covers the issues very well. Prostitution being one of them and the gal who is interviewed does an amazing job of covering the ins and outs of the different forms of handling prostitution from a 'legal' point of view. And the consequences, who is really harmed, from each one.

Also, there is an Adam Ruins everything that adds to interesting historical insight into Prostitution and it's effects (when legal) on society and it's rather surprising... or not, if you are a misogynist.

There, happy researching.

Prostitution is legal in areas of Nevada. Also has a trade in Amsterdam as well. In Nevada, this allows protection of both the lady and her client. In terms of disease, assault, etc. When we make this illegal, we push this trade into the hands of those who care about neither. Making prostitution like drugs illegal hasn't ended the illegal trade. It just punishes those who seek it out or participate in it on both sides. Individual morality is a choice and isnt a crime just because it may differ from anothers.