Should prostitution be legalized in the United States

For you first point, you are correct I did point to certain jobs that lead to unhealthy habits as opposed to illegal habits, but as readers and voters will understand, illegal habits aren't inherently wrong because they are illegal, illegal habits are made illegal because of what they cause/do. Drug use leads to an unhealthy live-style and negative health effects etc. similar to an unhealthy lifestyle. My point being we shouldn't be using claiming something is bad because it contributes to illegal activity, that some might not think is particularly bad. If we were to assume all illegal activities are bad then this argument (over an illegal activity) would be pointless. I would also like to point out that you pointed out drug use as a reason to get into or an effect of the job. You also did not state ILLEGAL drug use, so I wasn't aware that you were talking about illegal drug-use, and any survey/interview asking prostitute about drug use would include the use of legal drugs such as caffeine, alcohol and tobacco. Even if we agreed taking illegal drugs is wrong, it doesn't change the fact that other jobs don't lead to illegal drug use and i propose that any interviews of current employees working in legal jobs would be much less inclined to admit illegal habits than people illegally working prostitutes that have already come clean with their illegal habits and jobs. Finally (on this point) this still all relates to prostitution while it is illegal, where I argue it isn't true and that any interviews and sources should only be valid if they are taken from currently legal prostitutes as those will be the ones that pertain to my argument, that legalizing it will overall make it safer. Thank you for bringing up the doctor point, about how legally practicing doctors must/do take extreme precautions in the name of safety and health. As opposed to an illegally operating doctors, e.g. one who is illegally performing abortions, are more than likely not taking all the same safety precautions.(http://www.feminist.com...) (http://rhrealitycheck.org...) (http://thinkprogress.org...) Doctors are much much more likely to pick up a disease because they deal with sick people consistently a prostitute doesn't consistently deal with infected people. And even so doctors still take these extreme measures and do a great job of protecting themselves and others. So by making prostitution legal many many more checks would be involved, I will link a few (unbiased) interviews with legal prostitutes working in Nevada where many of them say they must be routinely check, where they have a right to decline a client at any time for any reason, (including a possible std), where they must legally be tested at least once a month, and are breaking the law if they operating with an infection, committing malpractice, AND the owner must cover all the medical expenses of whoever would become infected by the prostitute. These are current laws on the book. Doesn't that sound like a much much safer solution, than having no checks whatsoever? Here is a link to HIV rates in illegal prostitutes. http://www.lasvegassun.com... following is a link to HIV rates in legal prostitutes where it is mandatory that they must be checked. "since the opening of legal brothels in Nevada, there has never been a reported case of HIV or AIDS" http://crifersj.wordpress.com... Also all of your quotes are coming from a biased journalist NOT A WORKING PROSTITUTE. I will link interviews with prostitutes, because I feel they are less likely to be biased than a journalist who has no experience working as a prostitute legally. As a final point, despite the hardships that these women may or may not suffer, in the United States of America, freedom is treasured to its highest as well the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If these women want to explore their life, and exercises there liberty and their pursuit of happiness, without causing harm to others, they should not be punished for doing so. http://www.buzzfeed.com... http://venusinheels.wordpress.com... http://www.nytimes.com... http://www.details.com... http://esplerp.org... http://jiv.sagepub.com... http://anotherworldblog.wordpress.com...