Should prostitution be legalized in the United States

Don"t worry too much about grammar, I am not a grammar nazi and am not perfect when it comes to grammar as well. I just like well thought out arguments that give me a good debate, which you have provided. To respond to your rebuttal against my first contention, I will provide my sources at the end of this session. I apologize for not originally getting those to you, normally I would in any other debate, but it slipped my mind as well as I saw no sources provided by you so I figured they were not necessary. Nonetheless, I will provide these sources at the end. To address your point about the smoke shop/coffee shop analogy. There is one major flaw in your argument. You stated "just because people use jobs to finance their unhealthy habits doesn"t mean we should make the job illegal". I must say, I completely agree with you on that point, but the difference between what I was saying and what you believed I was saying is extremely different. I said we should stop a certain job because it is funding people"s ILLEGAL habits. Unhealthy habits are a decision that people in America are legally allowed to make, illegal habits are not. You also stated that many jobs require employees to drink caffeine in order to keep up with their job and cope. I do not believe this to be true. I believe it is society that makes people turn to caffeine in order to keep up with their job. An example of this, is that I have been drinking coffee regularly since the 8th grade. I had no job, all I had was school, and school came easy to me. So I did not need the coffee, but any time I was tired, the common thing for anyone to say was "drink a cup of coffee." The difference between this and the relationship between drugs and prostitution, is that I have never been stressed and someone tell me "well just go do some drugs." To close on your rebuttal, prostitution causes use of illegal drugs to cope with the excessive trauma involved with their job. Not just the constant sexual intercourse with random strangers, but also the abuse, and mistreating they take from customers and pimps. You mentioned how the STD"s spread the same as between two individuals who met at a bar or anywhere else for that matter, but you missed the point of what I was trying to get at. Let me use doctors as an example. When they treat people, they use excessive precaution, such as masks and gloves and washing their hands repeatedly. Even when the case is the flu or something to that extent, they would still take a lot of precaution. That is not because doctors are a different breed of human that are much less immune to diseases, but it is because they are continuously dealing with a lot of people who have different illnesses. If they pick up one of them they could give it to hundreds of people, and their likelihood of picking one up is much much higher than anyone else. Prostitution is exactly the same. Prostitutes aren"t more or less likely to pick up an STD on a case-to-case basis, but they get with hundreds of people in a small period of time and they are more likely to pick one up and transmit it to another person before finding out they had it than someone who maybe gets with a different person every week. And again, the difference between interracial marriage is that it isn"t used to fund illegal habits, it doesn"t spread life threatening diseases, and it isn"t associated with extremely common domestic violence. Again, I will provide the sources from my statistics that I stated earlier, at the end of this rebuttal. As you suggested, I took the time to go research interviews about these 24 legal brothels in Nevada, and the results were quite interesting. I would like to direct you to this website to see what I found: http://www.theguardian.com... I would like to provide a few quotes from that article that I felt were important, although the entire article is quite interesting. -"The brothel prostitutes often live in prison-like conditions, locked in or forbidden to leave." -""[The brothels] look like wide trailers with barbed wire around them- little jails." The rooms all have panic buttons, but many women told [`the interviewer] that they had experienced violent and sexual abuse from the customers and pimps." -""When prostitution is considered a legal job instead of a human rights violation," says Farley,`why should the state offer services for escape?" More than 80% of those interviewed told Farley they wanted to leave prostitution." And in regards to your accusations of "name calling", I was not implying that you value sexual desires over the safety of people. It was a conditional statement starting with "if", you should know what that means. Citations: http://myweb.dal.ca...(4)%20789-800.pdf Page 2, first paragraph end of the paragraph. This reference was the one that I pulled for the psychologists" reasoning behind the relationship between prostitution and drugs. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... This was where I got the statistics behind the relationship between prostitution and drugs. http://www.hawaii.edu... I got many statistics from this reference, I would greatly encourage you to read it, is very enlightening