Prostitution should be legal in the United States

I shall start off this debate by once again thanking Danielle for the challenge...... Thank you Danielle <3My second action will be to proceed on conceding to half the arguments Danielle has presented.... Look every action has its ups and downs, and legalizing prostitution has A LOT of ups and downs (get it? cause its about sex and they go up and down and up and down and up, you get what I mean). My point is many of the more minor arguments Danielle has brought up are good points that I agree with, so I will not be a douche about it and argue against them for the sake of debating against her. The people on DDO wish to have a good show so I shall give them a good show by focusing on the main arguments instead of bickering about every little thing Danielle brings up when I agree with half of them. Why would I do such a thing? Well the last guy who debated Danielle on ALL of her points had to hack the system to illegally increase his character space just enough to STILL get his a** whipped when the debate ended. I would much rather opt for getting my a** kicked by being beaten fairly on a few large arguments rather then lose badly for resorting to illegal tactics for a chance to win because I spread my arguments too thin over moot points. Is this smart to do? Beats the hell out of me im just a bench. Now on to the arguments. 1) People may deserve the right to do what they want with their bodies, but in the US people most certainly do not have the right to do whatever they want with their body. People cant go in public naked, people cant legally buy weed for recreational use, people cant marry people of the same sex (in most states), etc. Free will is a nice thing to have but it is heavily restricted in the US so the idea that legalizing prostitution should be legal because we have a right to do what we want with our bodies isnt necessarily true since free will in the US is restricted2) Conceded3) Conceded4) People should be responsible for their own health but if they arent its society that pays the price for it. Billions and billions of taxpayer dollars are spent on health care services and treatments for people who suffer from stuff they were born with, and if prostitution is legalized, if there is an increase in STD rates, then society will have to foot the bill for the medical expenses. Just because its a persons responsibility to look after their own health, the government still has an economical interest to not legalize prostitution because irresponsible prostitutes and clients could cost the government thousands of dollars in healthcare costs. 5) In areas where prostitution is legalized, the women are regularly tested for STD's, but disease spreading is still an issue for two reasons, - 1 - More then STD's get spread between people during sex. Regular diseases like E coli, E bola, common flu, and any kind of bacteria, viruses, and parasites all can be exchanged between people during sex and can easily be hazardous to ones health. If the government somehow could regulate every last prostitute in America, they would have to test for a LOT more than just STD's to prevent people from contracting potentially deadly diseases, therefore ensuring quality and safety is a monumental task to achieve and fund in this industry since there is so much to protect against in prostitution. - 2 - The girls are tested, but what about the clients? If you think prostitutes are filthy, you should see the guys having sex with them. If prostitution were legalized these filthy men would arguably do a majority of the disease spreading, not the prostitutes, and it would be the prostitutes coming down with the STD's even though tons of taxpayer dollars are spent to prevent exactly that. Regulating prostitution to combat STD rates will only stop a fraction of STD cases from occurring since women are being tested but the filthy men arent. Not to say that women are completely clean though, http://stdtesting.md...6) Conceded7) Conceded8) This argument talks about how legalizing prostitution would ease the costs on the bureaucracy that is the criminal justice system, but when it comes to legalizing prostitution, one bureaucracy's gain is another's woe. If prostitution were legalized, then there would be a need to create an entire new agency solely for keeping track of every would be prostitute in America which could be MASSIVE in size and scope. There are millions of prostitutes in the US (legal and illegal, young and ancient) and regulating all of them and conducting weekly testing to see if they are clean while paying all the salaries of all the people who have to conduct this regulation and testing would be a huge burden on taxpayers. Depending on how heavily regulated the industry would be would determine its cost (prostitute licenses, license to advertise prostitution in an establishment or brothel, restricting where they are allowed to operate, the list could go on and on)Let me put it this way. The costs of regulating the industry due to the size of the regulating agency and the sheer number of prostitutes out there could potentially have a massive burden on American tax dollars compared to keeping it criminalized. 9) Society could be seen as a victim of legalized prostitution. There are children who could be brainwashed or simply convinced into thinking they can simply make a living through sex rather than pursue a career that is actually honorable and useful. Those same children could then have no real career to fall back on should they suddenly be unable to continue being legal prostitutes. Hell most new cases of STD's happen at a young age when women are really sexually active (out of 19 million new cases every year)http://www.everydayhealth.com...The parents and relatives of these prostitutes could also be given flak or be victims of hatred since their daughters would be in an industry that is still seen as taboo in America. Back in early America families of prostitutes were shamed upon and publicly humiliated by their own neighbors, and that could still happen today since sex is a taboo industry. Hell if you think about it the prostitutes themselves could be hurt physically if the person they are selling sex too is the size of a boulder or more likely if their client is violent and abusive. Its also worth noting that female prostitutes face a much higher rate of violence against them then any other profession. A lot of people can be the victims of prostitution one way or another. http://en.wikipedia.org...Prostitution isnt victimless, it affects many people in more ways then just diseases and it comes both mentally and physically. 10) Conceded but this one does relate back to number 4 about how it is in the governments best interest to not legalize Prostitution.11) Conceded12) ConcededAs for my own arguments Id like to discuss. I know its a little hypocritical to concede half the con's arguments and then introduce my own but I feel they still are relevant to the discussion about the legality of prostitution. - 1 - It can be argued that testing a prostitute for STD's can be seen as a violation of patient doctor confidentiality for the prostitute. - 2 - Not all prostitutes will go through the process of being certified or regulated and there will always be prostitutes out there not getting tested who still sell sex to strangers for money. - 3 - Legalizing prostitution would increase the promiscuity in women at all ages, and I think you actually said that somewhere too. That could influence girls in high school to start soliciting sex as prostitutes without knowing any better or knowing the dangers involved and wreck their lives before it even started.