Prostitution should be legalized

Firstly, my opponent clearly does not know what plagiarism is, so I will help him. Plagiarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. [1] I didn't pass them off as my own, I sourced them. Your misunderstanding of the word led to you spreading lies. 1. Prostitution is a victimless crime I never mentioned sex slavery. In fact the word slave or slavery only appears in your last argument. This is what you call a Strawman logical fallacy. "You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack." [3] However, that argument did describe how prostitutes are often mistreated. It was a quoted argument, but I don't see how that makes it any less valid. "How would legalizing prostitution make STD‘s more prevalent?" See Disease "Why would buying the services of prostitutes legally rather than illegally be more likely to „erode whatever moral values the majority holds dear“" Not the argument I made, another strawman. "Promote anti-social behavior?" Because what once required talking, honesty, and love has been reduced to a mere monetary transaction. Then this argument wasn't a baseless emotion charged argument like he claims. 2. Undermining the black market and increasing workplace safety for prostitutes If you want to talk about baseless claims just look at the first paragraph of this argument that has an astounding zero sources. I would like the source that says "The only way that the black market could be eliminated would be if the demand ceased, which is not going to happen, or if prostitution were legalized." However, this still makes the black market into a legitimate market. You propose legal brothels that are heavily regulated. Heavy regulation increases cost to pay for those regulations, lowers demand because now less can afford it, and increases black market activity because it would be cheaper, and easier to access. "The point is that by regulating prostitution, the working conditions in the new regulated brothels with regular health checks would become preferable to those that illegal prostitutes are used to now." So, by making it more expensive and less accessible it makes it preferred? "Another major benefit that con has not responded to is the fact that prostitutes would be able to unionize, and would thus be able to improve their working conditions through the same means that other workers do." This assumes they would be able to unionize. Unions might make things safer IF they were there, but it also raises the cost of prostitution which lowers demand and increases black market activity. If you were trying to avoid black market activity this is certainly not how you would do it. Legalization of prostitution actually increases black market activity. (See Trafficking) 3. Decreasing the taxpayers' load Con argues here that violance would increase, but why would this be the case? Besides misspelling violence, here is why. Since the legalization of prostitution increases black market activity (See Trafficking) that means more people are now being abused in this "profession". The quote is completely relevant. Since it prevents serious crimes, like black market operations, it cost less because you would not need as many police, and results in less destructive crimes like robberies. Arguments against 1. Demeaning to women How doesn't it make women‘s bodies just sex objects to buy and sell? Men are purchasing a woman's body to have sex with. "Freedom over sex life"? Women don't choose to be prostitutes. It is their last resort. [4] "Treating them like children or idiots ..." How is this not emotionally charged like you claim I do? Plus it is not treating them like children anymore than saying you can't be publicly naked is treating people like children. Further I don't claim that prostitutes look like supermodels or celebrities. This is just another strawman. Here is how it enforces stereotypes and unrealistic beauty. Brothels want to make money, so they would hire the most attractive prostitutes. Who do men find attractive? Young, beautiful women. This does create a stereotype, and give an unrealistic version of beauty. The quote is half way down the page 168, the page I linked to, I could not link it directly to the quote. This is no more "emotionally charged" than your treating them like children or idiots comment. You are just using that as an excuse not to respond to it. Unsupported? I have to find support for my support? You first. 2. Disease It is impossible to screen both and get accurate results since HIV is undetectable until 2 to 8 weeks [5] and having them wait at least 20 minutes for the fastest test for just HIV. Plus who is paying for the test? Either way it increases the cost of prostitution. It would be more for other STDs, so it wasn't due to improper medical checks. They did has much as they could reasonably do. My opponent assumes it was not regulated for condom use; however, this is wrong. From the same source it says "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" [4] Getting checked for STD can be very expensive and could test negative for the first few weeks, at which time they could spread disease. 3. Trafficking Sex Trafficking: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. [2] Legalizing prostitution gives a boom to the black market and increases trafficking. "After legalization in Victoria, Australia, there was a 300 percent increase in illegal brothels." [2] "Approximately 63 percent of the estimated 400,000 prostitutes in Germany are migrants, meaning German women do not want to prostitute, so they have to bring in women from other countries, an environment ripe for sex traffickers to exploit." [2] "By 2008, Spain’s Equality Ministry said 80 percent of prostitutes in Spain came from places including China, Romania, and Latin America — many coerced by gangs." [2] Like I said earlier legalization does not diminish black markets it only legitimizes and expands them. Sources: [1] http://tinyurl.com... [2] http://www.cwfa.org... .[3] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com... [4] http://www.embracedignity.org... [5] http://hivtest.cdc.gov...