Legalization of sex-work

Pro, I can't understand why you are supporting sex-work. I respect your opinion, too. But I want you to know how evil sex-work is. I want you to know about the truth of this immoral act. In your argument, you said sex-workers should have rights. But you didn't mention why a girl should be a sex-worker. You didn't said why should a girl sell her body for a low amount. I cannot understand that. Would you explain to me? I don't know if you believe in God or have a religion. But woman is the blessed creature of God. God honours and respects women more than you imagine. He doesn't want then corrupt themselves with such immortality. I don't want to talk about religion. I just want to ask some questions. For legalization of sex-work, you only explained about the payment and rights of sex-workers. But which one is important, their payment or their degnity? Their rights (for doing an immortaly) or the blessing and purifaction (for guarding their private parts)? What are the reasons for being a sex-worker? What has made a girl forget her dignity and what has made her to sell her body? Do you have more reasons to support sex-work? Please think about my questions and answer them. If your answers are logical and satisfactory, I'll admit that sex-work should be legalized. Pro, legalization of sex-work prevents men from getting married. Unfortunately, fornication is legal. But who commit fornication? A boy and a girl who love each other. And their love may make them get married. But who is a sex-worker? A corrupred girl who sleeps with each lustful man she finds. Men ONLY love her for her body. Legalization of sex-work makes prostitutes work easier. It means they can sleep with men easier. And when men can sexual relation with whomever they want, they never think about marriage. Besides, lealization of sex-work will cause divorce. If a woman realizes that her husband has slept with a sex-worker, she will leave him. Please check out these facts about rape: WASHINGTON: Nearly 1,900 women are raped every day in America, according to a study released on Thursday that paints a much grimmer picture than US Justice Department figures announced earlier this week. The National Victim Center, which promotes the rights of victims of violent crime, said 1.3 adult women are raped every minute and 683,000 US women are raped each year, based on a survey of more that 4,000 women, including 579 rape victims. One in eight adult American women has been raped, bringing the total of rape victims to at least 12.1 million, it said. The survey indicated that 61 per cent of all rape cases involve women under 18 and that 29 percent of all rapes occurred when the victim was less than 11 years old. - Reuters (Source: MID-DAY Bombay 25-4-92) Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes. (National Crime Victimization Survey. Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996) Sexual assault is down by half since 1993, yet there were still 248,000 sexual assaults in 2001. About 10% of sexual assault victims are men. One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape. About 2/3 of sexual assaults are committed by someone who is known to the victim.Less than 39% of sexual assaults are reported to law enforcement.About 44% of rape victims are under age 18; about 15% are under age 12. (Most numbers in the above charts have been rounded. All data compiled by RAINN from US Justice Department, Bureau of Justice Statisics: National Crime Victimization Survey 2001 and prior years; Sex Offenses and Offenders 1997. All studies are available at www.rainn.org/statistics.html.) Other Survey According to the Justice Department, one in two rape victims are under age 18; one in six are under age 12. (Child Rape Victims, 1992. U.S. Department of Justice) Two new studies of adolescent girls have found that 1 in 4 has been sexually or physically abused or forced by a date to have sex against her will. (New York Times, 10/1/97) Every 90 seconds, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). RAINN calculation based on 1999 USDOJ NCVS data.) Globally, at least one in three women and girls had been beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime. (UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2/28/00) Up to 4,315 pregnancies may have resulted from these attacks. [RAINN calculation based on 2002 NCVS and medical reports.Because of the methodology of the National Crime Victimization Survey, these figures do not include victims 12 or younger. While there are no reliable annual surveys of sexual assaults on children, the Justice Department has estimated that one of six victims are under age 12. [Child Rape Victims, 1992] Approximately 48% of victims are raped by a friend or acquaintance; 30% by a stranger; 16% by an intimate; 2% by another relative; and in 4% of cases the relationship is unknown. [2000 NCVS.] Age 12-34 are the highest risk years. Risk peaks in the late teens: girls 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. [2000 NCVS.] Many people say that legalization of sex-work can avoid rape. But can an immortality be the best solution for another immortality? I don't want to talk about religion! But Islam presents the best to protect woman from rape; wearing hijab and covering body with a modest dress. Only hijab is the best way to stop raping. Another evil effect of sex-work is its harmfulness for women. The sex of prostitution is physically harmful to women in prostitution. STDs (including HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, human papilloma virus, and syphilis) are alarmingly high among women in prostitution. Only 15 % of the women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul study had never contracted one of the STDs, not including AIDS, most injurious to health (chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrheal, herpes). General gynecological problems, but in particular chronic pelvic pain and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), plague women in prostitution.. The Minneapolis/St. Paul study reported that 31% of the women interviewed had experienced at least one episode of PID which accounts for most of the serious illness associated with STD infection. Among these women, there was also a high incidence of positive pap smears, several times greater than the Minnesota Department of Health"s cervical cancer screening program for low and middle income women. More STD episodes can increase the risk of cervical cancer. Another physical effect of prostitution is unwanted pregnancy and miscarriage. Over two-thirds of the women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul study had an average of three pregnancies during their time in prostitution, which they attempted to bring to term. Other health effects include irritable bowel syndrome, as well as partial and permanent disability. The emotional health consequences of prostitution include severe trauma, stress, depression, anxiety, self-medication through alcohol and drug abuse; and eating disorders. Almost all the women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul study categorized themselves as chemically-addicted. Crack cocaine and alcohol were used most frequently. Ultimately, women in prostitution are also at special risk for self-mutilation, suicide and homicide. 46% of the women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul study had attempted suicide, and 19% had tried to harm themselves physically in other ways. More succinctly, women in prostitution suffer the same broken bones, concussions, STDs, chronic pelvic pain, and extreme stress and trauma that women who have been battered, raped and sexually abused endure. In fact, the case can be made that women in prostitution -- because they are subject to being battered, raped and sexually abused all at the same time over an extensive period of time -- suffer these health consequences more intensively and consistently . [1] [1] http://www.uri.edu...