Legal Prostitution in India

Thank you @karamvirz for your commitment to this debate, despite your busy schedule.I wish this to be a fair debate, and so I want to remind Pro that he holds the burden of proof. This means that it is not enough for him to rebut my arguments (though I suspect he will have trouble doing so effectively); he must also have made strong, unrefuted arguments for his side by the end of the debate. With that out of the way, I'll jump right in to addressing his points."Although legalising sex work will not guarantee anything , it does not imply that the need to do so or to better enforce the existing laws should be ignored."Why do we "need" to legalise sex work? As I have proven, and Pro has conceded, it does not guarantee (in fact, case studies have shown that is is unlikely to have an effect at all) that the problems Pro perceived will be remedied. Pro has not offered any other reason, rending this perceived "need" to be just an assertion."While starting this debate the most important thing in my mind was how can we reduce the acts of crime against women which rising at a sharp steep curve in present time."Okay..."Once again I would reassert on my argument about other such laws , although no law guarantees anything but it does not stop the law makers from making stricter and better laws , does it?"Lawmakers do not amend laws for fun. If amending a law is not expected to cause the desired effect, then why amend it? Or, if my opponent is so insistent on amending laws for no good reason, then why not amend the Indian Telegraph Act, or Censorship Act, or any other law? Why is my opponent so insistent on amending the SITA, even though we are in agreement on the fact (as my opponent has not refuted) that it does nothing to "reduce the acts of crime against women", which my opponent has said is his objective in arguing for prostitution legalisation?A2: "The mere existence of so many sex workers signifies that there is equally large clientele."My opponent has clarified his point. Based on my understanding, he says that a large prostitute population implies a large clientele. I concede (since its a minor, inconsequential point) that the male Indian population has some sort of sexual frustration. What I don't see, is how legalising prostitution can solve anything. In my opponent's argument, he already concedes that these prostitutes are maintained by a large clientele. This implies that the members of Indian society who are "sexually frustrated", and thereby must be part of this clientele, already get their fix from these prostitutes. What difference will legalisation make? I must remind my opponent to remember that prostitution is legal, organized prostitution is not. Potential criminals already have the option of approaching prostitutes legally.In fact, this just convinces me that legalising prostitution will have an undesirable effect. Laws often serve a deterrent function. The law against organized prostitution is intended to deter respectable members of society from engaging in prostitution. Such people often have established families and work that would be affected by an arrest for engaging in organized prostitution. However, legalising prostitution would give them a window into a world of prostitution, which increases temptation for married men, and has the potential to break up families. Earlier on in the debate, my opponent dissed my source (a CATW survey) by saying "First of all 200 women across 5 countries averages to 40 women per country.Number is quiet low to come to a conclusion." It is interesting that the authors of the research paper he has provide have backed their conclusions up with the exact source that I earlier quoted. From my opponent's article: "According to a recent publication on trafficking, (The Coalition against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific. www.catwinternational.org) there are about 2.3 million prostitutes in India." To attempt to discredit my source and then use it in his own argument is, in my view, rather poor conduct.My opponent has also made some points about how prostitution is "silently accepted" in India. Strangely, his source refers to it as a "problem". Since he hasn't addressed this yet, though, I shall wait for his counter before bringing this up in detail.Over to Pro.