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Debate Score:47
Arguments:29
Total Votes:51
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Should prostitution be legal in the US?

Very self explanitory

Yes

Side Score: 30
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No

Side Score: 17

I will quote the late George Carlin, "If selling is legal and fucking is legal, then why isn't selling fucking legal?!!!"

Enough said.

Side: yes
3 points

I have never purchased sex before in my life, just thought I'd say that first off.

But I mean its a job and as long as the woman chooses to do it, I dont think it should matter. If a woman likes sex and is getting paid to get it I say all power to those women, have at it.

No good looks, no condoms,no good health, NO SERVICE

Side: yes
Thewayitis(4071) Disputed
2 points

Every guy has had to pay for it. That dinner and movie cost us, in fact it would often be cheaper to just give them cash and forget dinner and the movie.

Side: yes

Absolutely. It could be regulated, meaning the prostitutes could be tested and would no longer have to submit to cruel "pimps." Prostitution is also something that some women enjoy, despite what people may believe, and it's a much-needed public service.

Side: yes
2 points

Illegalizing prostitution is a direct stab at free-market economy. Nobody's civil liberties are being violated, and commerce is happening. The guy is happy, and the girl is happy. Sometimes, friendships are formed through prostitution. In the United States, prostitutes do their job and leave; the quality is always below what you expect, the time is always rushed, and you have to worry about getting killed by her pimp or her venereal diseases. In other countries, it's much more fun; the girl spends the whole night with you, gets to know you, and if she likes you enough you might just get a visit for free the next day. I know, I never would have believed that unless it had happened to me. But certainly not with American prostitutes. They're not worth the money you pay for them.

Legalization would only make sense in our tanking economy. We're scraping for new markets, and there's one already thriving that we aren't taxing.

Side: yes
2 points

This is not a perverted response or a male thinking with his other brain at all. Prostitution has been around for many centuries. I believe prostitution should be legal with some type of oversight such as;

- Prostitutes' Safety

- Protecting Society

- Physical and Psychological Health

- etc...

Some people need to get laid if you ask me.

Side: yes
1 point

It doesn't hurt anyone. Aren't things illegal because they can hurt people either physically, emotionally, or financially?

I don't mind if it's legal, but I'd prefer there to be brothels rather than half-naked women wandering the streets where kids might see them (I know it's at night usually, but sometimes kids are up late from a theater show or a movie or dinner out...) or where people might be offended by that.

Side: yes
2 points

I agree, if it doesn't hurt anyone it shouldn't be illegal. Just as long as the woman has given consent to be a prostitute.

Side: yes
DaWolfman(3324) Disputed
1 point

I withdraw this answer, and downvote it. I dont know what I was thinking, I apologize and the answer I meant to say is on the opposing side. I would edit this response but someone already upvoted it.

Side: No

Prostitution can bring revenue to a State from State controlled houses of prostitution.

Side: Yes
2 points

What? No. Prostitution degrades women. There are other legal ways to make money, like something called a job. Besides, what effect would this have on little girls? That they don't have to get an education but go into prostitution instead because they could make money faster? It sends the wrong message.

Side: No
xander(438) Disputed
1 point

Because society as a whole doesn't degrade women? Because dolls dressed like baby prostitutes is okay, but legalizing isn't?

Legalizing prostitutuion would help protect women from physical abuse from their partners, as well as giving customers some protection as well.

Side: yes
asdf789(350) Disputed
1 point

You are kidding, right? Show me evidence that proves your point.

1. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution is a gift to pimps, traffickers and the sex industry.

2. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution and the sex industry promotes sex trafficking.

3. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not control the sex industry.It expands it.

4. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases clandestine, hidden, illegal and street prostitution.

5. Legalization of prostitution and decriminalization of the sex Industry increases child prostitution.

6. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not protect the women in prostitution.

7. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases the demand for prostitution. It boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider and more permissible range of socially acceptable settings.

8. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not promote women's health.

9. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not enhance women's choice.

10. Women in systems of Prostitution do not want the sex industry legalized or decriminalized.

It makes women look like objects to men that they can buy or sell anytime.

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/prostitution_legalizing.html

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvlegal.htm

http://stanford.edu/class/humbio129s/cgi-bin/blogs/feministlens/2009/04/23/the-dilemmas-of-legalizing-prostitution/

http://www.unesco.org/courier/1998_12/uk/ethique/txt1.htm

Side: No
1 point

Prostitution is hurting society in several ways. There is a ban on prostitution for a reason. Prostitution is not a victimless crime as there are child prostitutes, and the human trafficking among other things.

Legalization of prostitution would lead only to more human trafficking, children prostitutes, and a further spread of HIV/AIDS.

Side: No
xaeon(1095) Disputed
2 points

"Prostitution is not a victimless crime as there are child prostitutes, and the human trafficking among other things."

The reason human trafficking if prevelent in prostitution is exactly because it is illegal. If you legalised prostitution, supply of (and demand for) native prostitutes will rise dramatically. Do you not see that trafficking and child prostitution would actually be lowered by legalising prostitution?

"Legalization of prostitution would lead only to ... a further spread of HIV/AIDS."

Again, do you not see how there would actually be a reduction in sexually transmitted viruses if prostitution were regulated and legalised? The majority of problems with prostitution are directly attributed to their illegal status.

Side: yes
DaWolfman(3324) Disputed
3 points

Oh really xaeon? Netherlands has had prostitution legal for years and they are one of the most primary destinations for humans being trafficked. Europe has many countries who have legalized prostitution but suffer from increased human trafficking.

But maybe the US is different?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands

With it legalised more people are having sex with whores, and as soon as a whore is infected she doesn't even know it yet, so if she gets infected with HIV she still has sex with customers up until the day her next 'check up' is which is usually once a week. What happens to the infected prostitute? She gets kicked out onto the street. So thats one more woman infected, and possible many more men.

Side: No

Right to the point and extremely accurate xaeon. Legalizing prostitution comes with medical checks as well so the spread of disease is not enhanced...it is minumized. It works in Europe, why not here? Bringing this out into the legal world can only help minimize all human trafficking in our world.

Side: yes
Banshee(288) Disputed
2 points

I disagree. Legalizing prostitution would also allow us to regulate it. Prostitutes could be required to be licenced by the state and to have regular health check-ups. This would cut down on the risk of HIV/AIDS as well as place an additional check on human trafficking and child sexual abuse by making the business of prostitution more public and transparent. It might also decrease the demand for illicit (trafficked) prostitution in which people are victimized by increasing the availability of lawful, available prostitution. It would also dismantle the "pimping" system that keeps sex workers financially dependent, on drugs, and at risk of violence (keeping in mind that the average streetwalker doesn't keep any of her earnings -- it all goes to her pimp, and he pays for her support and needs as he defines them).

The real criminals uner our current, illegal system of prostitution are the traffickers and the pimps. As the system is now, the girls are frequently "not allowed" to have money; this ensures that they have no choice but to keep hooking for the same pimp, and thus it allows for the perpetuatation of abuse. Their pimps may want to keep them dependent and on drugs; may want to force them into abortion or into childbirth; may be much opposed to them seeing a doctor for any reason; etc. -- and the girls have no access to money beyond a single night's earnings, so may well not even have the option of making other choices for themselves. Legalize prostitution, and we get rid of the pimping system while turning hookers into taxpayers in one fell swoop.

Side: yes
Thewayitis(4071) Disputed
1 point

What is that reason? There is some victim of everything you do. Cancer to someone because you exhaled. Death to those that were in your way coming from a bar. Cars are murder weapons, outlaw pedestrians. Fast food makes people fat, healthy?

Let's see we don't ban things that kill you, just things that people enjoy. Only in America.

Side: yes
DaWolfman(3324) Disputed
1 point

Driving drunk is illegal mate, and so is homicide.

So what your saying is that human trafficking is fine? Oh and children prostitutes are just dandy?

If someone doesn't have the consent to be treated like shit, forced into intercourse, given drugs, and possibly given deseases is not something I put under what people enjoy. I put that under what mentally disturbed people enjoy. If there was no child trafficking, and no children prostitutes then F it I dont care, but the fact is those are problems that cannot have a blind eye pass over them.

Side: No
iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
1 point

you're right,

and the reason women are able to be victimized is absolutely because it is illegal.

You won't find a "victim" at a bunny ranch, I mean, you'll find dumb girls, girls with daddy issues, etc, but that came long before they decided to be prostitutes, and I think you'd find the majority of these girls are surprising centered, bright, happy, and effing rich as s--t.

The problem is, there has been a market for prostitution since the dawn of man, and there will continue to be until they create a hooker robot or all of our penises fall off,

And when there is a demand for something, someone is going to fill it whether it is legal or not.

And when it's illegal, the people who fill this demand are called criminals.

So you get these girls that may be kind of dumb, may have daddy issues, or may be surprisingly bright and centered

exploited by pimps,

who keep them poor, get them addicted to drugs, beat them, and sometimes kill them,

And I haven't even started on the amount of revenue legalized prostitution would generate.

No, it is literally better for everyone involved except the pimps if prostitution is made legal.

Side: yes
DaWolfman(3324) Disputed
1 point

Netherlands has had prostitution legal for years and they are one of the most primary destinations for humans being trafficked. Europe has many countries who have legalized prostitution but suffer from increased human trafficking.

But maybe the US is different?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands

With it legalised more people are having sex with whores, and as soon as a whore is infected she doesn't even know it yet, so if she gets infected with HIV she still has sex with customers up until the day her next 'check up' is which is usually once a week. What happens to the infected prostitute? She gets kicked out onto the street. So thats one more woman infected, and possible many more men.

Thats what I just said to Xaeon, now if a country has it legal and still has the same problems why would we be any different?

Damn this is an edit I put illegal instead of legal >.<

Side: No
1 point

Since CreateDebate won't let me close my account, I will delete my posts.

Side: No
xaeon(1095) Disputed
1 point

"However, if those wackadoo's who want it legal win, we should at least follow the example of New Zealand. They have rules and regulations that make it safe for women and children."

Thank you for providing both the fear-mongered baseless worries that people have in regards to prostution, as well as a realistic and workable implementation of a legalised prostution method. You said it yourself; with the correct regulation and rules the legalisation of prostitution can be safe for both women and children.

You answered your own fears.

Side: yes
Lerouche(33) Disputed
1 point

Since CreateDebate won't let me close my account, I will delete my posts.

Side: No