Legalized Prostitution

I will assert that STD's and the method of which prostitutes get it is highly important. Around 50% of prostitutes in the world have an STD. (1) These statistics includes countries in which prostitution is legal. My opponent tries to asset that STDs decrease when prostitution is legalized. This is not the case. As quote by the study:" Brothel-based female sex workers in China are a heterogeneous population, displaying considerable variability in the organization of life and work, relationships with managers and clients, ability to negotiate condom use, knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, and occupational identity, all of which may result in different risks of acquiring HIV." (2)Let me refute his sources from wikipedia.His first source study was taken from 1967 to 1999. This allows researchers to nit-pick certain subjects that experience situations that agree with their views.His second source does not pertain to what he stands for. From his source:"This article critically evaluates the theoretical and empirical literature on contemporary prostitution. Most research focuses exclusively on street prostitution and female workers, with much less attention devoted to indoor prostitution, male and transgender workers, customers, and managers. Drawing on the sparse literature available on these underexamined topics, the article demonstrates how further research will yield a more nuanced and multifaceted understanding of contemporary prostitution."It is invalid for his point.His third source is all about his own opinion; with only five citations to back up his work.My source has many citations and trumps his evidence. Refer to my previous arguments.I can not address all of your sources. If I would, I could. Sadly, the character limit is killing me. In my previous argument, it showed that even when it was legalized, women felt they did not have a choice. Read, man! Read!I did address it with my case. Our cases will clash. Let the voters decide which is better. A shotty article or a study with proper citations.In response to your violence argument:"It has been assumed that decriminalization/legalization will decrease street prostitution and that prostitution will then move indoors, where it will be physically safer for those in it. Those promoting legalized prostitution suggest that women will be safer in indoor prostitution than they are in street prostitution. However, women in Chicago reported the same frequency of rape in escort and in street prostitution (Raphael & Shapiro, 2002). No research has demonstrated that legal prostitution decreases illegal (street and brothel) prostitution. Following legalization of prostitution in Victoria, Australia, although the number of legal brothels doubled, the greatest expansion was in illegal prostitution. In 1 year (1999), there was a 300% growth of illegal brothels (Sullivan & Jeffreys, 2001). It is an error to assume that women in prostitution sign up for prostitution in one location and stay there. In fact, they move between different kinds of prostitution, depending on the location of johns, the level of police harassment, and where the most money can be made (e.g., near military bases or during political or business conventions). Kramer (2003) found that 59% of 119 U.S. respondents had been in one or more types of indoor prostitution (such as strip club, massage parlor, escort prostitution) in addition to street prostitution. Thirty-three percent of Kramer’s respondents had been prostituted indoors for the longest period of time, while 66% were involved in street prostitution for the longest time. In similar findings, Farley (2003a) found that 46 NZ interviewees had been in many different kinds of prostitution, including escort, strip club, phone sex, Internet prostitution, peep show, bar prostitution, street prostitution, brothel prostitution, and prostitution associated with a military base. Twenty-two percent of these interviewees had been domestically trafficked from one region of NZ to another, and 6% had been trafficked from another country into NZ (Farley, 2003a)." (3)It would take two long to refute the studies supporting Pro's second source . However, it won't take long to refute his thrid source. His third source is by a feminist reporter who has a skewed bias on the topic. She does not have proper arguments backing up her claims. Her claims are like a conspiracy theory; as she provides no examples of such manipulated studies. My studies have not been refuted. I extend them.Pro seems to have this fantasy that legalized prostitution will equate to more condom use. Let me extend my case."It has been argued that legalized brothels or other “controlled” prostitution establishments protect women through enforceable condom policies. In one study, 47% of women in U.S. prostitution stated that men expected sex without a condom; 73% reported that men offered to pay more for sex without a condom; and 45% of women said that men became abusive if they insisted that men use condoms (Raymond et al, 2001, p. 72). Although certain sex businesses had rules that required men to wear condoms, men nonetheless attempted to have sex without condoms. One woman stated: “It’s ‘regulation’ to wear a condom at the sauna, but negotiable between parties on the side. Most guys expected blow jobs without a condom (Raymond et al, 2001, p. 72).” In reality, the enforcement of condom policy was left to the individual women in prostitution, and the offer of extra money was an insistent pressure. One woman stated: “I’d be one of those liars if I said ‘Oh I always used a condom.’ If there was extra money coming in, then the condom would be out the window. I was looking for the extra money (Raymond et al., 2001, p. 73).” Many factors militate against condom use: the need of women to make money; older women’s decline in attractiveness to men; competition from places that do not require condoms; pimp pressure on women to have sex with no condom for more money; money needed for a drug habit or to pay off the pimp; and the general lack of control that prostituted women have over their bodies in prostitution venues. " (4)The study also shows that the sex industry expands when legalized prostiitution is set in place. The study also shows that sex trafficking increases when prostitution was legalized.Just as in countries that have tried in before in my source, trying to enforce condom use does not work.I extend my studies on trafficking and child prostitution. I will add another source that contradicts Pro's source 3. It is from Germany. Sex trafficking of women AND girls increase due to legalization. (5)" The presence of an adult sex industry increases both the rates of child sexual exploitation and trafficking. It may be true that some women in commercial sex exercised some level of informed choice, had other options to entering and have no histories of familial trauma, neglect or sexual abuse. But, these women are the minority and don’t represent the overwhelming majority of women, girls, boys and transgender youth, for whom the sex industry isn’t about choice but lack of choice. The argument that legalizing prostitution makes it safer for women just hasn’t been borne out in countries implementing full legalization. In fact, legalization has spurred traffickers to recruit children and marginalized women to meet demand. Amsterdam, long touted as the model, recently started recognizing rates of trafficking into the country have increased and is beginning to address the enormous hub of trafficking and exploitation that it's created." (5) Pro goes to mis-represent his points in my arguments and make arguments that are faulty. I urge voters to look past his faulty cases and manipulation to vote for me. Thank you for your time.Anime OP:http://tinyurl.com...1. http://tinyurl.com...;2. http://tinyurl.com...;3. http://tinyurl.com...4. http://tinyurl.com...;5. http://tinyurl.com...;