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Debate Score:87
Arguments:31
Total Votes:90
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Legalize Prostitution?

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Yes

Side Score: 79
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No

Side Score: 8
14 points

"Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling Fucking legal?!"

- George Carlin

Side: yes
10 points

He was truly an outside-the-box thinker that George Carlin was.

Side: yes
5 points

Oh shit, I am so sorry, I hit the wrong arrow the first time! I was trying to give you an up point and hit the down one~ I did give you an up point after!! Sooo sorry :(

Side: yes
10 points

It's ok ;)

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Side: yes
3 points

The man was indeed truly brilliant.

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Side: yes
casper3912(1581) Disputed
1 point

Driving is legal. Drinking is legal. Why isn't drinking and driving together legal?

Side: No
Warlin(1213) Disputed
2 points

Uhhhhhh..............Because it kills people?

Side: yes
4 points

sure, why not? I don't care who does or doesn't use that service but people should be allowed to choose what they can do with their own bodies. I really don't understand why it is illegal. People can have sex, you would have to be crazy to say that is wrong. And people can have monetary exchanges involving goods and services. Somehow, when those two things are combined, the morality and fabric of space time justs rips apart. Seriously, what is the harm, if it does not affect you, what kind of a self centered person do you have to be to extend your own disproval of a certain activity onto the privacy of other's actions.

Side: yes
4 points

Yes, make health checks manditory and license it. Tax it. A win, win situation. No expenses for policing it or prosecuting Johns and prostitutes. License fees and taxes collected.

Side: yes
1 point

Good points Dave, I agree !

Side: yes
3 points

Yes, I really don't understand why it is illegal in the first place. You are just buying a service, right?

Side: yes
3 points

I agree!! Tax money may not be collected. But the money they earn helps the economy when they spend it in town.

Side: yes
1 point

Don't they collect taxes from it in Nevada? I honestly don't know but I suspect the prostitute has to declare income that is taxed?

Side: yes
3 points

Paying a woman to have sex is illegal. BUT, if you pay her, then videotape it and sell the film for profit.. it's legal. It's called PORN. So technically there is already a slight version of prostitution that is legal.

Side: yes
1 point

That is an excellent point... I never thought of that .

Side: yes
2 points

I figure we might as well get the tax money for it .

Side: yes
3 points

I have a feeling that's why it's illegal, because they wouldn't get any money from it.

Side: yes
2 points

It seems to work out okay in Nevada .

Side: yes
2 points

I don't see why not. Let people live their own lives. I don't want or wont let any one tell me how I should live mine.

Side: yes
1 point

What a lady chooses to do with her body and her chastity is nobody's concern but her's. A lady has every right to utilize herself the way she likes or atleast until Men are forgiven to have slept with a million women around the world and still not be tagged as 'PROSTITUTES' for a reason that they don't have to carry the proof of 'VIRGINITY'.

There does not have to be anything illegal about prostitution unless your blinded with 'BLIND ETHICS'. And if you respect your ethics just so much then you might as well make them equally satisfying to all.

Side: yes

States can make plenty of revenue from running State controlled houses of prostitution.

Side: Yes

No, mainly for the obvious reasons of Public health, and also due to some likely social impacts.

Laws do not define morality, but they can be put in place to stop the spread of dangerous diseases and to point out that a woman's worth extends beyond her vagina.

Side: No
Hellno(17753) Disputed
1 point

Making prostitution legal would help public health... it would legitimize an industry that already exists anyway!

Side: yes
casper3912(1581) Disputed
1 point

Enforcing Prostitution legislation is hard enough, enforcing something like mandatory checks on stds for sex workers would be even more difficult(and possibly be impossible to sign into law). I would reckon most prostitution is on the side of some primary job, used as supplemental income. This makes categorizing people as sex workers difficult. Rather proper sex education for all people would do a better job of getting prostitutes to check themselves.

Prostitutes have a high risk job, but the risk is not isolated; it spreads to each client they have, which spreads to each person their client has sex with, etc. Prostitutes are not managing their sexual networks for health and happiness but for profit(which is determined by the market), this leads to increased risk of several health issues, which themselves leads to potential social issues.

Simply legitimizing an industry isn't necessarily in and of itself desirable.

Side: No

No it shouldn't be because you can spend the money somewhere else. Prostitutes should get clean get a job and look into the future on becoming something positive.

Side: No
0 points

The law is supposed to be Upright. Our nation will fall apart because people choose to exclude God from the law. What purpose does legalization of prostitution serve? How can you look at the face of your children and tell them that you are a supporter of this? Let sin be sin, do not try and welcome it in. The law is supposed to be what protects us... from ourselves.

Side: No
92nida(1411) Disputed
1 point

SIN IS A SIN.. If a woman sleeps with Men for money. Where is that man punished according to your law? A man has his rights untouched to sleep with as many women and get away with it. Only because you do not call it 'Prostitution.' Only because a man is not asked for his proof of virginity that he cant produce. Pay it the right way if you believe that law is right. You can't oppose any of it unless you stand clean.

Side: yes