A Federal System of Prostitution Should Be Allowed for America's Prisons

Thanks Pro! I would like to finish my argument based upon three things: logic, health, and finance. Logic: "3) I cannot provide any statistical guarantees, only a guarantee ensured by logic. If you're straight, it is logical that you would choose a woman to deal with (excuse me for this) your horniness before you choose a man."-Pro This argument is invalid, because for the sole reason: why would prisoners follow your method of logic, when they are the one's who have committed crimes to be locked up in the first place? If they knew that there were punishments for crimes then why would they do said crimes? This shows that prisoner's are not highly logical. Health: I have found a great site that shows some of the dangerous of legalization of prostitution and will make refutations based on this site. According to http://sex-crimes.laws.com..., 50% of the world's prostitutes have contracted HIV, prostitutes on average are beaten 12 times a year, and in the U.S alone 92% of women say that they want to leave prostitution, but can't due to a lack of food and money. And the average murder rate of prostitutes is 204 out of 100,000 prostitutes. That's over 20 times the national average! Lastly, one more statistic: 40% of female prostitutes in the U.S were former child prostitutes... 1. Half of the world's prostitutes are not in fact "clean" and could spread HIV to hundreds of people especially in prisons. Do you honestly think that even with protection a prisoner would want to have sex with someone who has contracted HIV? 2. Why in the world would you send prostitutes into prison's with them getting beaten on average 12 times a year? Your not only putting them into more physical harm, but also mental and emotional harm. This could even result in a high death rate of prostitutes be it in prison's or every day work. 3. You said, "2) I imagine they'll hire them. Just open up shop and let the interested women wander in. Of course the government can do whatever screening/background checks they need to feel safe in their employment decisions." I hardly think that your proposal would be effective when only 8% of women prostitutes would take up your offer. Finance: As mentioned above even if women prostitutes thought that your job proposal was good money wise, do you honestly think that they would take it? 92% of them said that they would leave their profession if not for money and food problems. You would be only contributing to the cycle of violence, STD's, and death to unfortunate women. "Trying to fix the rules is ineffective because of the prison atmosphere. The majority of guards simply don't care. Creating a law about what to do about rape and telling the guards to follow it won't work that well, simply because it's down to them to follow through, something that is unlikely to happen with any useful frequency." How can you say this when you have said this? "I assume that the government will not want to be associated with sending women to get raped, so they would try to control these situations as much as possible. So they'd try to make it a controllable situation, and then also have punishments in place if the prostitute reports mistreatment." Obviously the U.S government hasn't passed stern reprimands to the raping of prisoners that guards would follow, what makes you think that they would do this for prostitutes? When the U.S government wouldn't want itself doesn't want to be associated with prison rape? And lastly if guards don't listen to prison rape even if their are laws, then it seems hardly logical that they would listen or follow anti violence and rape laws against prostitutes. Conclusion: Your proposal has merits, but there are too many holes and flaws in it. 1. There would not be that many women to take up your offer (8%). 2. You would only be continuing the cycle of violence towards women from childhood to adult hood. 3. A women shouldn't have to be a prostitute in order to make ends meet. 4. Tax payers would not vote for this bill or legislation and if the constituents won't like a highly unpopular bill then what makes you think that their representatives would vote for it? 5. And lastly due to a high amount that women prostitutes get beaten (12 times a year), you would make the women be the target of hostility and violence instead of inmates. I have proven why the legalization of prostitution would not work through: the law number of volunteers, the sheer number of STD stricken prostitutes, and the trampling of a women's rights of happiness and liberty. In essence the very proposal that you suggest is illogical, would be unsupported, and unsustainable. Sources: http://sex-crimes.laws.com... http://findingjustice.org... http://www.defense.gov...