Prostitution should be illegal.

Human TraffickingTo be honest, I don't want to read several books to continue a debate on this site, so I'll take your word for it that in some of the countries where prostitution is legal (including several third-world countries) human trafficking rates go up. Now you have to ask yourself why this happens. It's still illegal to forcibly take someone and use them for sex and labour, so how does prostitution enable this more often? I skimmed through your sources and couldn't find the countries in subject, but I can say it wouldn't make sense to say what could happen in a developed country (like America or Canada) due to what happens in an undeveloped country, run by an extremely corrupt government and rebels and huge gangs (like Mexico or Ethiopia).ConsentConsent turns the crime legal in some cases. Having sex with someone against their will is rape, and a horrible crime. Having sex with someone who consents is just mutual sex. Although this isn't the best example, it shows that consent does alter "crime" in some cases. However - you say "there is no amount of consent that makes a crime acceptable." That's incorrect. If you were to replace acceptable with legal, I'd agree with you. Acceptable falls on the people involved, even indirectly, as long as they are involved. Is bondage acceptable? Well, it's legal, and recorded, and shared all over the Internet. Tying someone up and having sex with them (sometimes while they cry) is legal. But if a guy pays a woman to have sex (not even bondage) it's suddenly unacceptable and illegal? Of course consent makes a crime acceptable. It doesn't make it legal, but it makes it acceptable.Using your murder example - You're right, it is illegal to kill someone or yourself, but something being illegal doesn't make it unacceptable. If Joe is suffering and he hates his life and has nobody and nothing to live for, and some guy offered to end it all for him, it would still be murder, still be illegal, but between those two people, it would be acceptable, as Joe accepted his fate and accepted his death.My "choice" argument is basically that if a woman chooses to do something that doesn't hurt a single person (sex), why is it considered illegal? She is choosing to have sex with someone, and she is putting a price on it. There's a reason they are called sex trade workers, because much like a massage therapist, they offer their services for money.There is always going to be bad stuff in the world. Not every prostitute is homeless, but that's irrelevant. What's the difference between some guy asking for change and some woman saying she'll work for you? Well the woman is using her skills to earn money. She could chose to get a job at the recycling depot getting $8/hr, but she chooses to have sex with men for $100/hr. Makes sense to me. The deportation thing is obviously horrible, but your whole argument is "these people have nothing so they resort to selling their services for money." ...So they resort to a job, yes. A job that some people frown upon.(1) Consent is a defense to a crime. It does not make the crime any less illegal, but in many cases it makes the crime acceptable/reasonable. (2) By "realistic alternatives," are you referring to getting a minimum wage job at the age of 30? Earning five times that much makes a lot more sense to me.Violence against womenI don't really know why I said that I can guarantee that - I can't. Taking into account the unreported rates... well we just can't do that, can we? If nobody says they were raped, we can't use that group as part of the statistic, as we would literally be making up a number. Keep in mind the United States is not the same as any other country, and to say "x happens in Istanbul" is a lot different than saying it would happen in America.SexismNo. It's called biology. Women have the ability to attract almost any male to have sex with, while men have to work incredibly hard to find a female. My statement has absolutely nothing to do with "men being entitled to sex," and that is ridiculous. Last time I checked, a man and a woman having sex is normal. So why is it that a man and a woman having sex, then the guy gives her money for it after, turns into sexism? Well, it doesn't turn into sexism. This whole "sex object" thing is ridiculous. It's in our nature to have sex, it's in our nature to be sexually attracted to the opposite sex. Because women chose to offer sex to men for money does not mean men view women as sex objects, or are entitled to sex. A woman offering her services is the same as a man offering his. If a guy offers to fix a woman's roof, and she pays him, is he a "strength object"? No. Is the woman entitled to his services? No.Sex is important for most people. If someone cannot have sex, and a woman is offering to have sex with him for money, it is not entitlement, it is not sexism, it is not inferiority/superiority, and it isn't degrading a woman to the level of an object. Last time I checked, people don't have sex with objects, they have sex with humans.ConclusionProstitution pays more because it's a risky business. Like changing the light bulb on a radio tower. Legalizing changing light bulbs on radio towers has caused more deaths, as more people are doing it. We don't need radio towers, we can live in the dark ages. So why is legalizing sex for money a harder thing to do? I chose not to bring up many sources considering prostitution is legal in places outside the US, which, well you guessed it, are not the US. I consider these sources irrelevant, as they are not related to the US. However your topic does not say "Prostitution should be illegal in the US," we do have to take into consideration other countries, especially if it is worldwide. More prostitutes = more violence, that makes sense. Just like more Whites commit crimes than Asians, there's more of them, so that's how it works. However is the percentage more? I dropped the side effects of prostitution because when women chose (that's right, I said chose) to enter this field of work, they are paid for the risk, and they have the ability to leave, but they don't. They know the consequences, they know the risk and danger, but they stay to make great money.Legalizing prostitution in other countries (most not nearly as developed as the US) may have caused a slight increase (however percentage wise I'm not too sure) in violence against prostitutes, which makes sense. This is the only valid point Pro has brought up. If there's more prostitutes, more are going to be abused. It's unfortunate, yes, but keeping it illegal would continue women to seek it out in extremely shady ways, underground prostitution rings, where no safety precautions are at hand at all, and nobody knows where they are.When the government legalized alcohol, more people died from alcohol poisoning, however this is still legal. Sex trade workers would not die from sex, they would die from the people committing crimes (if prostitution was legalized) that would still be illegal. References:Nope.Thanks for a good debate.