Prostitution should be legalized in the United States

1) 'It is going to happen anyway'Just because it is going to happen anyway if its illegal, that doesnt mean we should just legalize it...... Murder and rape are also going to happen anyways even if its illegalized, but we shouldnt legalize those things simply because they will keep happening regardless if its illegal or not......"they are afraid to leave because of what their pimp would do to them"Its not the US government's job to go out of their way to make prostitutes lives easier just because they arent courageous enough to stop doing something they dont want to do in the first place.... If someone doesnt like their boring office job but are afraid of what will happen if they quit, then those people should learn to face their fears and stand up for themselves rather then wait for the government to come in and make their job nicer..... 2) Symptoms of unregulation + illegalization"Once a woman agrees to the act of sex and there are terms set out, a man can still rape her against her will."That could still happen even if the industry WAS legalized.... Youd have to invest a crazy amount of money into a crazy amount of regulation to ensure that prostitutes can stop having sex the second she wants to stop.""204 out of 100,000 prostitutes are murdered in this business due to lack of regulation"Its not the lack of regulation thats killing these prostitutes though, its the pimps and their clients.... Saying that lack of regulation is causing these murders is the equivalent of saying that all gun-related murders are caused by not enough regulation, rather than the murderers themselves. 3 - Regulating Prostitution"Most of those countries if not almost all of them have saw a drastic decrease in sexual violence and rapes once prostitution was legalized"The source you gave to support this statement does not corroborate it at all....."It is also proven that regulation of prostitution will help prevent murder rates and sexual acts of violence as I already mentioned with the murder rate dropping from nearly to 20% of people in the business to under 10."Expanding prostitution to 49 other states only opens the door to having more chances of prostitutes to get raped and/or murdered, especially if the industry isnt adequetely regulated. "Porn stars have more STDS than Nevada prostitutes now"Thats not a convincing comparison to make though. If I were to say that Country A is safer/healthier than friggin Somalia, thats still pretty low and a very unconvincing reason to think that Country A is safe at all. "So saying it can not be regulated is a drastic misconception. It can and has been regulated in both Nevada"Just because Nevada can handle it doesnt mean the rest of the US can..... Hell, Nevada is a state that doesnt even have 3 million people in it, with most of those people living in counties that have NOT legalized prostitution..... Its easy to regulate a place that is in the middle of an empty desert, that doesnt mean it will be just as easy to regulate New York City or Los Angeles. 4 - Costs"If there are 80,000 citizens arrested yearly for selling sex, and we were just to put them in jail for one year..."Ok stop right there. People who get arrested for soliciting sex dont spend a year in jail..... In fact people arrested for soliciting sex almost NEVER even spend time in prison: http://sex-crimes.laws.com...Most people arrested for prostitution simply get a fine of a few hundred dollars and are simply released back into the public after a few days, meaning they dont spend a year in jail, and dont even face a trial over what they were arrested for. So all your math alleging how much illegalizing prostitution costs the US each year is completely false and made up. 5 - Consent"I mean we have legalized cigarettes and alcohol, both of which have more direct effects on secondary individuals than prostitution ever will."Yeah but theres nothing inherently immoral about smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. When dealing with prostitution though, morality comes into question. "Prostitution hardly has no impact with physical harm toward a secondary person, and is an adult decision between two adults to have sex for payment. I have no idea how this is even a crime to begin with"It may have something to do with being immoral along with being heavily tied to sex trafficking, murder, rape, and a lot of other really nasty things. "Legalizing prostitution has been shown to decrease rates in murder , rape, and diseases by a substantial margin"Decreasing poverty also has the same effects, and I think everyone here would agree that it would be better to spend money to end poverty than it would be to legalize prostitution. "We are filling our jails and spending money on people that do not need to be there"Except we're NOT filling our jails with people who dont need to be there. "By legalizing this we cut costs of incarceration, and have a new industry to pull money from. "But not all that potential money could go to the government, and the little that does could easily be swallowed up by the massive costs of regulating the industry, such as weekly tests on all the prostitutes to make sure theyre clean. "It gets women whom have been trapped under pimps into a system into which they can receive proper treatment"They can also get away from pimps simply by WALKING AWAY, which sounds easier than having the government come in and legalize + regulate the living hell out of the industry doesnt it?==============================================================================================Look here are the facts: - Legalizing prostitution doesnt mean that the number of rapes and murders will go down, it could actually open the door for more rapes and murders to take place, especially if the industry is very poorly regulated, which knowing the US government will probably happen- Prositution does NOT cost the US as much as pro says it does, in fact its not even CLOSE to what he alleges. - The amount of money that regulating prostitution could cost would easily dwarf any amount of money that the government could somehow make from it. - There are far easier ways for the US to make up that money if its really that big of an issue, as previously stated- Legalizing prostitution would drain young girls in high school and college out of schools to become prostitutes, when they could instead be something useful to society such as engineers, doctors, teachers.... Stuff that the country actually NEEDS.