Prostitution should be Legal

Thank you for responding so quickly. I, unfortunately, cannot respond at such a pace. I remain convinced of my position and unconvinced of yours despite the arguments you have made. I feel they do not provide sufficient evidence to support the continued illegalization of prostitution. So, without further ado, here are my counter arguments. First, however I'd just like to point out that the area in which I live in, like most of the areas within the world, does not have "massive safety measures" for prostitutes. It should but it does not. The act is illegal. All of those measures is how we should go about providing safety to prostitutes. Moving along to your second point, you believe that since prostitution is "artificially modifying ones body" it is therefore immoral. We may be using different definitions of the word prostitution, but I use the widely accepted one that I listed in my round 1. I do not know how you got the modification of one's body idea, but that is not what I am talking about. For the record, seeing as artificially modifying one's body provides no harm to a sentient creature, then it would not be immoral. Your next idea is that prostitution creates "lazy. And weak-minded people who cannot work for a living." Now, I am not sure if you are talking about the johns or the prostitutes themselves in this situation, so I will address both. Unless you provide proof, we can safely assume employing prostitutes has no correlation with not working (those who didn't work would have no means of employing prostitutes, so the reasoning is a tad contradictory). If you mean the prostitute themselves, you are still wrong. No wants to be a prostitute, or at least not a majority of them (a recent survey dissevered that 92% of American prostitutes want to leave the profession but cannot due to lack of money for food). Why would they? Prostitutes, generally, are financially desperate people in bad neighborhoods doing the only thing they know how to (and probably the only thing they can) make money. The fact that it is illegal and it is still so prevalent shows how desperate these people are. If they had anything else they could do, they would have done it. The idea that they are simply lazy, is frankly ludicrous. "As sex used to be a private personal thing companies and lazy people are taking advantage of this to earn money." First, what is the oldest profession? Prostitution is certainly up there. There are references to prostitutes in many ancient cultures, including some of our Holy Books (Koran, Torah, Bible). So the idea that sex used to be private personal thing is absurd. Of course, some people view it this way. I view it this way, and I would not employ prostitutes if they were legalized, but there have always and will always be other views on sex (else prostitution would have died out long ago). Also, I have already dealt with the lazy people idea, but am confused on what you mean by companies, as in my model there would be no companies running the show. Elaborate in your next response, please. Let's say that we accept that all you say is true, that it is immoral, that it creates lazy and weak-minded people. Even if we accept all that (which I don't) then it is still not enough to justify the monthly beatings of 1 million people. That number is just for the United States. I await your response with anticipation.