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Just legalizing prostitution would not ease the wounds this enterprise entails but keeping this not-so-popular-business illegal gives a green light to the establishment of crime organizations and prostitute victimization. The midway for this social issue would be a legalization of prostitution and a governmental control or unions that would closely monitor the activities of prostitution and guarantee that everyone is safe and fairly treated in the business. Working as a prostitute should be victimless, safe to both customers and prostitutes.

Many argue that women voluntarily throw themselves to this infamous market. Some even boldly insist that prostitutes should be treated with extreme harshness since they are worthless human beings. Are they worthless? Who is to judge the worthiness of another person? Usually those who criticize the prostitutes, live a satisfying life and they have no idea or understanding of the circumstances that trap someone in the middle of prostitution whirlpool. Of course financial reasons are the main reasons but there are many other roads that lead to red-district avenue. Imagine a life if you have a low education, abused and poor background, no income and no chance to obtain a legal job and then someone tells you that you can earn quickly hundred bucks for sleeping with a stranger for about 30 minutes. You have a choice, you either starve or freeze in cold or you sell your body for 30 minutes. If someone has other options for income opportunity, prostitution is not considered because this job carries a social stigma and it is dangerous in many ways. I do not believe that a girl or little boy would grow up and dream about becoming a prostitute. Or what about if the society punishes a woman and calls her with the lowest names just because she was forced into prostitution and controlled by criminals? Isn't she a victim more than a criminal?

I have always thought that what happens in a private bedroom and between two adults who mutually want to share their bodies for money or without money should be honored by the government. It is a privacy issue. For some reason many believe that if prostitution would become legal, the prostitutes would flood the streets and expose our children to porn right in our backyard. That can never happen if prostitution is controlled with regulations. It is also hard to believe that paid sexual acts would be performed in public since non-prostitutes prefer their homes or other places shielded from public view for such activities. Does anyone know a person who wants to be exposed in public by having sex with a prostitute? I think many want to keep it as secretive from their family or personal life as possible.

If someone is concerned with morals then I have to remind that person that sex is everywhere. There is no escape from it because we are all animals and we all need sex. Prostitution cannot disappear for a simple reason that there is such a huge demand for it. Some lucky individuals can have sex for free with their partners, some unlucky have to pay prostitutes to have their needs met. There is nothing abnormal or immoral about it. Abnormal is the injustice, violence, and societal persecution that prostitutes have to endure in order to feed themselves and their children.

Keeping prostitution illegal does not eradicate prostitution. Making it legal and protecting the rights of prostitutes is important for allcriminals cannot benefit from prostitution, less overall crime and corruption, no child or woman is kidnapped and held underground world against her or his will and a prostitute without sexually transmitted diseases poses no threat to the clients and the people who are intimate with them.

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