Legalized Prostitution

However, I must note he did go over the character limit by posting his sources in the comments. That should bring the point of conduct to me. Let me start by pointing out severe flaws in his sources. Let us go over his first source presented in the argument he provided. This source claims that prostitutes are at low risk for transmitting the AIDS virus as well as catching it themselves. However. .. This study was done nearly twenty years ago. All of the sources are from the 80's when AIDS became a big deal in the world. Naturally, the sources are going to be skewed. I would also like my opponent to check his facts. The CDC says that, while there is a low risk for people to get AIDS during oral sex, the risk can increase depending on a number of factors such as if they "cum" in the mouth or if the gums are bleeding. In fact, the number one cause for transmission of AIDS in females is vaginal sex. This is something prostitutes provide. (1)Let's look at his second source. The study relies on "self reported data". This not only means the data can be unrealiable, it may also be skewed in any way the people that conducted the study want it. Even if we assume the study is legit, they also do not take in factors as to how many people the prostitute slept with; how long they were working there; and many other factors. I don't even have to explain why wikipedia is not a valid source. Please provide another source besides wikipedia. Let's move on to the sources in the comments. His first source does not provide any citations for what it is claiming. I will not go over anymore sources since I actually want to post rebuttals. However, his sources are skewed and not realiable. As a result they have many So, please do not take those sources seriously. General Rebuttal:My opponent has made a case that legalizing prostitution would help women be able to make a choice. Allow me to refute that. " Most women in prostitution did not make a rational choice to enter prostitution. They did not sit down one day and decide that they wanted to be prostitutes. Rather, such "choices" are better termed "survival strategies. " Rather than consent, a prostituted woman more accurately complies to the only options available to her. Her compliance is required by the very fact of having to adapt to conditions of inequality that are set by the customer who pays her to do what he wants her to do. Most of the women interviewed in CATW studies reported that choice in entering the sex industry could only be discussed in the context of the lack of other options. Most emphasized that women in prostitution had few other options. Many spoke about prostitution as the last option, or as an involuntary way of making ends meet. In one study, 67% of the law enforcement officials that CATW interviewed expressed the opinion that women did not enter prostitution voluntarily. 72% of the social service providers that CATW interviewed did not believe that women voluntarily choose to enter the sex industry (Raymond and Hughes: 2001). The distinction between forced and voluntary prostitution is precisely what the sex industry is promoting because it will give the industry more security and legal stability if these distinctions can be utilized to legalize prostitution, pimping and brothels. Women who bring charges against pimps and perpetrators will bear the burden of proving that they were "forced. " How will marginalized women ever be able to prove coercion? If prostituted women must prove that force was used in recruitment or in their "working conditions," very few women in prostitution will have legal recourse and very few offenders will be prosecuted. Even a 1998 ILO (UN International Labor Organization) report suggesting that the sex industry be treated as a legitimate economic sector, found that "…prostitution is one of the most alienated forms of labour; the surveys [in 4 countries] show that women worked 'with a heavy heart,' 'felt forced,' or were 'conscience-stricken' and had negative self-identities. A significant proportion claimed they wanted to leave sex work [sic] if they could (Lim, 1998: 213). " When a woman remains in an abusive relationship with a partner who batters her, or even when she defends his actions, concerned people don't say she is there voluntarily. They recognize the complexity of her compliance. Like battered women, women in prostitution often deny their abuse if provided with no meaningful alternatives. " (2) My opponent also argues that legalizing prostitution will lower violent crimes against prostitutes However, this is false as well. "Legal sex businesses provide locations where sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, and violence against women are perpetrated with impunity. State-sponsored prostitution endangers all women and children in that acts of sexual predation are normalized—acts ranging from the seemingly banal (breast massage) to the lethal (snuff prostitution that includes filming of actual murders of real women and children). Areport on the sexual exploitation of children noted that the presence of a thriving adult sex industry in a community had the effect of increasing child prostitution in that same community (Estes & Weiner, 2001). Nevada, the one U. S. state where prostitution is legal in 13 counties, had significantly higher rates of sex crimes than the rest of the United States in the 1990s (Albert, 2001).6" (3)My opponent goes to argue that STD transmission rates may drop as a result of legalizing prostitution. This is not true. "It has been argued that legalized brothels or other “controlled” prostitution establishments protect women through enforceable condom policies. In one study, 47% of women in U. S. prostitution stated that men expected sex without a condom; 73% reported that men offered to pay more for sex without a condom; and 45% of women said that men became abusive if they insisted that men use condoms (Raymond et al, 2001, p. 72). 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 (Raymond et al, 2001, p. 72). ” In reality, the enforcement of condom policy was left to the individual women in prostitution, and the offer of extra money was an insistent pressure. One woman stated: “I’d be one of those liars if I said ‘Oh I always used a condom. ’ If there was extra money coming in, then the condom would be out the window. I was looking for the extra money (Raymond et al. , 2001, p. 73). ” Many factors militate against condom use: the need of women to make money; older women’s decline in attractiveness to men; competition from places that do not require condoms; pimp pressure on women to have sex with no condom for more money; money needed for a drug habit or to pay off the pimp; and the general lack of control that prostituted women have over their bodies in prostitution venues. " (4)My opponent also claims that child prostitution would decrease. This is not true. (2) (4) He also goes on to assert that elgalizing prostitution would reduce sex trafficing. This is also not true. (4)I am running low on characters; but I wanted to address one thing about a statement my opponent said about my source. My source takes a specific stance on it. 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