Should prostitution be legalized in the United States

Excuse my lack of clarity/poor grammar etc. My first initiating or participating in a debate on this website. In regards to your first point I would like to see the study that you are citing. I would also like to point out that people can work any job to earn money for drugs, and whether you support drugs or not, we shouldn't prohibit a certain job because people in the business were drug addicts. Many people who work in smoke shops are tobacco addicts, coffee shops caffeine addicts. Although I understand these drugs aren't illegal my point being just because certain people use jobs to finance their unhealthy habits doesn't mean we should make the job illegal. "30% of women involved in a study of street prostitution stated that they got involved in drugs after getting in the business. (psychologists believe this is to cope with trauma involved with prostitution). " Source of statistic? which psychologists? also assuming that is true, many jobs turn people to drugs or alcohol to cope, many, many jobs require employees to drink caffeine (a drug) in order to keep up with their job and cope with the responsibilities. And then many people drink after their shift, to cope with the exhaustion of the work. closing point on this rebuttal, why people work a job, what they do with the money, how hard/traumatizing the job is, shouldn't dictate whether we should make the job legal or not, job is to hard or traumatizing? get another one, why many people don't go into the military, which also turns many people to drugs, albeit prescription ones. For your second point, STD would spread from one prostitute to another willing individual just as easily as it would from one consenting individual who met another consenting individual at a bar. If anything, the rules regarding prostitution would be very clearly laid out and no legitimate company wouldn't want to risk their employees dying or passing along diseases. Similar to how many companies currently have health codes, for example many kitchen jobs require employees to wear non-slip shoes, or to wear gloves when working with knives, or employees are required to wash hands upon leaving restroom. Many companies would require all sexual encounters to include protection at least for the long-term benefit of their employees which translates to bigger profits. As well as rigorous testing with the employees to prevent any spread that would look bad on their business. All of that aside I argue that if STDs are transmitted between to consenting adults it is no different than a man taking a woman out to dinner a show and an all around expensive date which then leads the woman to want to go to bed with him, and they transmit diseases to one another. Some may say that's immoral but to make sexual intercourse between consenting adults illegal infringes upon our basic rights of pursuit of happiness. My point of Loving v. Virginia was to highlight that although the supreme court realized that although some might not agree with interracial marriage, it is a constitutional right to a pursuit of happiness that shouldn't be infringed upon. (similar to recent same-sex rulings in Virginia). The American way and rights that were each entitled are that we have right to our own opinions however in terms of legality we should not infringe upon others constitutional rights (I know that was horribly written I hope you get my point) As for your point of violence in prostitution first I would appreciate a source. Second my argument isn't that prostitution is safe, my argument is that prostitution currently being illegal is unsafe, and legalizing it would make it safer. I did this by relating the sex trafficking aspect and asking how many people in service industries, for example massage business, (involve sensual touching of skin to skin privately) are assaulted with weapons? how many people at wal-mart are beaten by their boss. Those statistics support my view of prostitution in its current form with no checks or balances is unsafe. currently there are 24 legal brothels in Nevada, please look at interviews with those employees and see if they complain about suicide or being beaten etc. I would also like to point out that resorting to name calling or underhandedly calling into doubt my morals by saying that you feel I value sexual desires over safety of people, will not move this debate forward and instead shows what you need to do to win this debate. Valuable point by stating that is immoral because most believe it to be wrong, my point is that is it inherently wrong, or have we been raised to believe it is wrong, similar to interracial marriage and will people eventually realize that is doesn't cause harm so it isn't immoral.