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I will now address my opponents argument. I thank my opponent for this engaging debate. "It's an elementary topic I know, but please think about it. Over 12 million people in the U.S. a year get an S.T.D.. Imagine if Prostitution were legal. The number would certainly go up. Of course many of those S.T.D.s already come from prostitution, but if it was legal the spineless blue-balls nerds would all hire prostitutes and then most likely get a disease." >> Firstly, my opponent has shown no source to indicate 12 million people get an STDs per year in the US. The figure appears to be much higher. According to this source, "estimates that 19 million new infections occur each year" [http://www.cdcnpin.org...]. Regardless, as mentioned in my argument very few of these diseases are transmitted through prostitution, and this is when prostitution is still in an unregulated environment. Secondly, as addressed in my argument in round 2, STD's have gone down significantly in Senegal when prostitution was legalised and regulated, and in Nevada the have been no cases of HIV\AIDS at all since 1989. "Of course you may practice safe sex, but that is never 100 percent and most people would not be willing to make the sacrifice of making sex feel less good if they are having intercourse with a prostitute they don't even know. Then of course when the man gets a disease, he will find it harder to find a mate and have children. Which means he will only sleep with more prostitutes and have even more diseases. I think that is a good argument. Next topic." >> As mentioned above, the STD rate will drop when prostitution legalised. The side effects, such as it being harder find a mate, is irrelevant. Most STD's are cured easily. And according to my opponent, the end result is 12 million people (In reality 19 million) in the US going unmarried, which is untrue. "If prostitution is made legal the Christian society will surely cause an uproar on society. They will be very mad (or at least pretend to be mad since most Christians do not follow their beliefs and judge others) and go on strike. Now of course we can handle it, but why should we even allow it to happen in the first place? Christians aren't the only ones who will react negatively. People who are not that smart will immediately cause an uproar without thinking twice about it. It is just something that we should not mess with, if a bad reaction starts it will be very hard to resolve so why start the mess in the first place." >> Christians may get mad at a lot of things, but that should not stop the implementation of abortion. For example, abortion. According to this article, "78 percent [of evangelical Christians] stating abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.", and " Born-again Christians who are not evangelical were opposed to abortion by a 55-39 percent margin. Frequent churchgoers fell into a similar 60-38 percent range opposed to abortion.". However, the opposition of Christians to abortion has not stopped implementation of Roe Vs Wade and has not resulted in any directly related violence. Thus, simply because prostitution disagrees with the bulk of Christians (Presuming so, my opponent has not cited any statistics) does not mean the other benefits should be ignored. "Most women will be appalled that prostitution is legal because they will say it exploits them in a negative way. Then one will over react and say it infringes on their rights which we both know is not true. It does not matter though because they will start preaching that women have no rights even when they have plenty. I know it sounds like I'm getting off topic here so I will leave it at that." >> As addressed above, simply because one group of society disagrees with prostitution does not mean it's advantages and benefits of it being legalised should be completely ignored. As for the arguments presented by my opponent in Round 3, most are responded to here. As for his concerns on the cost of regular STD check-ups it has not made prostitution in Nevada unprofitable. My opponent has stated women should take up a position as a dominatrix or stripper, they are not as in demand as prostitutes, and offer, while sexual, different services. As for my opponent stating most supporters of prostitution are perverts, this is a statement which fails to recognise the economic benefit involved as well as improving conditions for people employed in the sex trade. My opponent has failed to source his argument, and he has also failed to negate the resolution.