• “Prostitution is the exchange of sexual acts for money, food, rent, drugs, or other material goods. Prostitution is a form of sexual exploitation.” (National Network to End Domestic Violence , 2012)
• Although prostitution is illegal, it has become increasingly popular in past years. o Many believe that the crime rate would decrease if prostitution were to be decriminalized. o One in every ten men in America have paid for sex. o 18,000 have been arrested in offences related to prostitution.
• Many negative impacts on society in relation to prostitution. o STD’s and STI’s very common in people associated with prostitution. o Violence toward the men or women working in prostitution.
• Men and women working as prostitutes are exposed to the same dangers after the…show more content… Many believe that if prostitution were to be legalized, the crime rate associated with it would decrease. While this may be true, many risk factors would rise in the case of prostitution being decriminalized. Prostitution should remain illegal because there are more negative impacts on society than there are positive. With the decriminalization, it would show the public that prostitution is more acceptable, even though the men and women working would be in the same amount of danger that they were in when it was illegal. Research has shown that with prostitution comes many dangers such as, sexually transmitted diseases and violence (AOW CITATION). Also, sex workers are highly stigmatized already and with the decriminalization, they would become more known to the general public which would cause the stigma to increase (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533.html). In America, it has been found that one in every ten men have paid for sex in their lives (AOW). Even though it is not uncommon, it does not make prostitution
