Prostitution should be legalized in the United States

Arguments for why Prostitution should NOT be legalized in the US1) It would be an impossibly large industry to adequately regulate. Ok first thing's first, if prostitution were to be legalized then its safe to say that a LOT of people would try it out. There are already 1 million prostitutes in the US at a time when its still illegal, so its safe to say that there would be a lot more if it were to be decriminalizedhttp://www.businessinsider.com...I dont know exactly how many more people would become prostitutes if it were legalized, but its still safe to say that enough would become prostitutes for the US government to likely be unable to adequately regulate the industry, since theyve proven to be unable to handle ANYTHING adequately. For the US to correctly regulate the prostitution industry, they would have to - Test prostitutes for std's on a very regular basis (at least once a week) which makes testing all prostitutes for std's to prevent them from spreading it REALLY expensive - Ensure that all prostitutes are currently licensed to be prostituting, and arent just freelancing it - Ensure that all prostitutes are getting regularly tested to see if they have any kind of disease (not just std's can spread during sex after all) - Ensure that the prostitutes are only prostituting at approved locations (im assuming they wont be able to go wherever they want and offer services, otherwise there is no way for them to be protected from abuse or rape) - Set up places for prostitution to be practiced where they can have sex at a safe place - Pour enough funding into all those places for it to be considered a safe work environment - Somehow ensure that prostitutes arent abused during sex, which they often are (80% have been http://www.rapeis.org... ) - Ensure that there is a minimum age of when prostitutes can actually become prostitutes (many prostitutes started when they were 14-15 http://www.rapeis.org... ) - Ensure that prostitutes can maintain the right to refuse service to a client (If they cant do this, then its legalized rape) - Ensure that those prostitutes are not taken advantage of financially by whoever is running the prostitution ringThere are a lot of other potential regulations that come into play if prostitution were to be legalized, and knowing the US government for its incompetence, it is likely that they will not be able to regulate such a massive industry, and that there would be tons of cases of disease being spread and prostitutes being beaten. Not to mention it would be expensive as hell to test all the prostitutes on a regular basis for std's and other normal diseases on a weekly basis. 2) Its not that profitable, if at allThere best estimate I could find about how much money the US could make from legalizing prostitution BEFORE taking into account all the money they would have to spend to make sure its well regulated and safe is just $8 Billionhttp://money.msn.com...$8 billion though is pocket change to the US, the US could get $8 billion by doing any of the following instead: - reduce military spending by 1.5% - reduce social security benefits by 0.9% - reduce medicare and medicaid spending by 0.8% - scrap funding for the F-35 - lower funding for any combo of these small military programs: http://en.wikipedia.org... - reduce funding to the army by 3% (Go to previous link and scroll up ^) - reduce funding to the navy by 6% - reduce funding to the air force by 5% - raise the excise tax by 9% http://en.wikipedia.org... - raise the corporate tax by 2.5% - raise the social security and other payroll taxes by 1% - raise income taxes by 0.8%Even if the US is projected to get $8 billion if prostitution were legalized and heavily taxed, there are waaaaaaay easier ways to get that kind of money if revenue is that big of a deal. Legalizing prostitution simply isnt that profitable to the US, it might not be profitable at all considering how much it would cost to drug test all prostitutes on a weekly basis (for all diseases, not just STD's). Since legalizing prostitution wouldnt make that much money or provide any forseeable benefit to the US at all, while potentially costing a TON of money just through weekly testing of prostitutes and being borderline impossible for the government to adequetely regulate, it seems that there isnt any real good reason to legalize it. 3) It would entice girls to not pursue more noble professions. Okay i hate to be judgmental (lol no I dont, tune in to the Weekly Stupid in the misc forum, every other Friday!) but in my opinion, prostitution is the absolute lowest profession one can be involved in.... Women who wish to grow up to become prostitutes are almost always the dumbest people in the classroom with the worst work ethic ever, who also usually have no kind of skill set that could be even remotely beneficial in an actual work environment in an actual, respectable profession.....That being said, legalizing prostitution would likely incentivize girls in high school and college to not pursue studying to be an engineer or a doctor or something society could actually use, and instead simply drop out and become a prostitute, a profession that requires zero knowledge of stuff they teach in school. Why would a young girl work hard to become something that pays only a half-decent amount of money, when in comparision she could do no work at all and make the exact same amount of money by being a prostitute? If prostitution were legalized, you would see an armada of young teenage girls in schools all over the nations start to give up on lofty goals of studying to become doctors and stuff like that, to instead become prostitutes in an industry that historically has been populated with the human equivalent of street rats. This would be a trend that would also suck out potential girls from schools in the future as well. That girl who might think of the cure to a disease could instead end up being a prostutute on the streets spreading disease....Well ive burned 6500 characters, so ill just end here for nowover to you pro