Legalising Prostitution

Prostitution, the oldest profession, as it so often described, has both its advantages and disadvantages. The health risks and the immoral tendency in resorting to prostitutes for sex are well known. The danger of numerous sexually transmitted diseases including Aids is always uppermost in ones mind in case of unprotected sex. However the world is wiser now, protection is always almost used. If protection is used that leaves us with the moral risk…

Why is it a considered immoral to go to a prostitute for sex? If a person has no partner/friend why should he or she not go to a prostitute? Why is it immoral to fulfil this most natural of all needs? If masturbation is considered natural by the vast majority of people, why is going to a prostitute wrong? Except for the physical aspect, are they not similar in other aspects?

The people who do not have a partner to have sex with or those who simply do not wish to entangle themselves in emotional relationships go to prostitutes.

An elderly, disabled...person said, “…clients of these sympathetic and compassionate ladies are, like me, disabled, elderly, disfigured, ugly or socially or sexually inadequate. The prostitute provides the only opportunity for a brief, life-enhancing taste of physical affection. God bless her!”(see first link below - and go to title 'vice is nice') A physically challenged person once told me that if it had not been for prostitutes, sexual intimacy would have become a thing of the past for him.

Then there is another category, which does not fit the description of any of the above – they are the section, who simply likes a change, variety, excitement and adventure…

Another fact to be considered is that a minority can be provoked to commit sexual offences if they are not given the peaceful and harmless option of going to a prostitute. Prostitution is infact acting as a balancing factor in a sexually overcharged society.

What about the prostitutes themselves – are they not occupied in a dangerous profession, which consists the risk of disease and of physical abuse.

For all of the above reasons it is necessary to legalise prostitution under the supervision of the government. It will safeguard the public aswell as the prostitutes.Disease will also be controlled as regular medical checks can be carried out on prostitutes. It would also ensure that drugs and children do not find there way into brothels.


Link to the above:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/apr/06/letters.gender
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/27/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation1