Topic: We should legalize prostitution

Argument: prostitution locks low income women into a hopeless life of drugs and disease.

Argument: prostitution needs to remain illegal as it is not fair to a woman to have to sell their bodies in order to make a decent wage.

Argument: prostitution normalizes the concept of women's bodies being a commodity, which is a toxic viewpoint.

Argument: prostitution perpetuates the abuse of the vulnerable and funds should be redirected to help them

Argument: prostitution promotes violent crimes against women.

Argument: prostitution should be allowed if the participants both agree.

Argument: prostitution should be legal as women should be able to use their bodies however they like.

Argument: prostitution should be legal because it is a woman's choice. if made legal could be licensed and regulated for health and safety.

Argument: prostitution should be legalied so women can work in safe spaces rather than be at risk working on the streets

Argument: prostitution should be legalized as it provides a service and reduces rape and sex crimes

Argument: prostitution should have been legalized from the beginning since it will always be a profession that is seeked in society.

Argument: prostitution should never be legalized. too much danger of spreading of diseases can happen, women can be seriously hurt or murdered, and it is gross seeing women selling themselves on the street

Argument: prostitution should not be legalized as it demoralizes women in all fashions.

Argument: prostitution should not be legalized as it is an unclean profession

Argument: prostitution shouldn't be legalized because buying sex could turn into something that everyone would want to do, including underage young men and women.

Argument: prostitution spreads sex diseases.

Argument: prostitution will always go on and it better that both client and sex worker feel comfortable about their rights and approaching the police should something go wrong.

Argument: prostitution will cause a more dangerous environment for those trying to escape and will make sex trafficking more common

Argument: prostitution will continue regardless, legalization woueld make it safer.

Argument: religious groups will go crazy as this activity is unrighteous.

Argument: rights to individual autonomy and privacy allow adults to make their own decisions and sexual activity is a private, individual choice that should not be subject to criminal penalties

Argument: selling sex for money is immoral, and it is very dangerous especially when it is unregulated.

Argument: selling sex, and paying for sex, are both immoral deeds.

Argument: sex for money contributes to men seeing women as sex objects and this would encourage that behaviour.

Argument: sex work is often exploitative and we need to protect people from that.

Argument: society does not want to send a message to women that prostitution is ok & acceptable

Argument: society might not be ready for such a bold move. it could lead to girls being coerced into the industry.

Argument: some women have no other way to support themselves and their children