Debate: Is Prostitution Safer When It's Legal?
Can legalized prostitution ever be safe and free of exploitation? Or should laws against prostitution remain?

Claim: Prostitution is safer when it's legal
Reason: Because prostitution has been illegal, it tends to be dominated by often violent pimps.
Warrant 0: Having sex with strangers shouldn't be violent
Warrant 1: Having sex with strangers can be violent.
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is safer when it's legal
Reason: The current system causes prostitutes to be unable to control their work and safety.
Warrant 0: prostitution is inherently an unsafe job
Warrant 1: prostitution is not inherently an unsafe job
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is safer when it's legal
Reason: Legal prostitution will lead to a reduction in STD's and make sex slavery more difficult it has been shown that legality does not stop the sex industry from existing.
Warrant 0: the sex industry won't ever stop existing completely
Warrant 1: the sex industry won't stop existing completely
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is safer when it's legal
Reason: The current system causes prostitutes to be unable to control their work and safety.
Warrant 0: legalizing prostitution will not make it occur more
Warrant 1: legalizing prostitution will make it occur more
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Prostitution is harmful, dehumanizing, and encourages modern day slavery.
Warrant 0: it could be regulated and made safe if it were leagal
Warrant 1: it could not be regulated and made safe if it were leagal
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Because prostitution has been illegal, it tends to be dominated by often violent pimps.
Warrant 0: these pimps will become legal bosses who still enslave their workers
Warrant 1: these pimps will not become legal bosses who still enslave their workers
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: It should have the same health security as places like Amsterdam and Hamburg.
Warrant 0: places like Amsterdam experience less crime and STD
Warrant 1: places like Amsterdam still experience crime and STD
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: It should have the same health security as places like Amsterdam and Hamburg.
Warrant 0: prostitute in hamburg are not very sick
Warrant 1: prostitute in hamburg are very sick
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: By legalizing prostitution, it can provide safeguards and protections.
Warrant 0: it is still fundamentally about selling one's body
Warrant 1: it is still fundamentally about health
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Workers in legal brothels are safe and there by choice where violence and abuse are minimized.
Warrant 0: prostitution doesn't always have to be a dangerous job
Warrant 1: prostitution will always be a dangerous job
Correct warrant: 1