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Should prostitution be legalized?

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Dailymails:
Sex is legal and selling is legal, so why isn't selling  sex legal? Most Americans believe that prostitutes are  desperate, poor women that have some sort of drug  addiction, and choose to sell their bodies. These  stereotypical views are what have made the practice  socially unacceptable and wrong for centuries. However,  "sex work is an exceptionally lucrative market and  prostitution will only continue to grow internationally"  (Hickenbottom). There is no way that selling sex can be  eliminated, but it can be kept illegal. A big portion of  the people who want to legalize prostitution are sex  workers themselves, and though they do raise very valid  arguments, there are still far more reasons why it should  stay illegal.

One of the biggest arguments to legalize prostitution is  that it is a choice. The individual has control over  their own body and gets to decide what they want to do  with it. "As long as the prostitution transaction is  voluntary, there is no justification for governmental  interference." It would be an "infringement of the  privacy and personal liberty of the individuals"  (Personal Freedom and Liberty). Sex work is also a form  of expression; "Imagine if the Constitution safeguarded  only the most popular behavioral choices and allowed the  government to restrict activities such as ice fishing,  eating escargot, or keeping rats as pets" (Personal  Freedom and Liberty). It wouldn't be fair to only allow  the most popular and practiced social behaviors because  every individual has their own way of expressing  themselves; these should not be taken away from them.  Also, it is really a harmless crime; "What makes  prostitution a 'victimless crime' in the sense that no  one is necessarily harmed by it is that there are  consenting adults involved" (Top 10 Pros and  Cons....Selling sex is not just dangerous for the  prostitute, but for the buyer and other third parties as  well. It causes much psychological damage as well as  physical harm to the woman, and the buyer can often catch  nasty, incurable diseases, and in extreme cases, destroy  their whole family. Women may feel that they have the  right to do with their bodies as they please, but they do  not realize the harm they cause themselves and others.  Prostitution is way too dangerous to legalize, which is a  main reason as to why it is still illegal and wrong.

Should prostitution be legalized?

manikoheart:
This is my own opinion, I think prostitution must not be legalized because I think it is very a bad act. Prostitution is degrading to women. It just show how so much desperate women are and it is really not a fun thing to do or for pleasure. These sex workers is an ashamed act. And it is against in some laws or constitution.

Deagle:
YES.. I don't see any advantage to letting people sell their bodies for sex.

I generally don't have any qualms about how people use their bodies, but I see no advantage in allowing anyone to legally sell their body for sex. I wouldn't outlaw any sexual act between consenting adults, but allowing the exchange of cash for sex invites abuse and demeans the participants.

Boycomy:
It is legal to sell manual labor. We can sell brute strength to move heavy objects. A person can be hired as a farm hand to harvest the fields. We can even sell bodily fluids to science...so why can we not sell what God gave us naturally? If prostitution was legal it could be regulated, std's could be tested for and it would not be on the street corners where children can be exposed to it. I am very surprised to that a nation built on civil rights and manual labor allows their government to control their physical being.

sabogiv:
Legalizing prostitution would not solve a lot of the problems associated with this activity, so I am definitely against legalizing it.
Legalizing prostitution would not prevent a lot of the illegal activity that accompanies prostitution like pimping, drug abuse, and robbery because the activity is immoral and legalizing the activity doesn't cure what leads a person to participate in such an immoral activity. It would be better to address the problems of drug abuse and poverty, sexual abuse, and other problems that lead a person to participate in prostitution than to just legalize it. Legalizing prostitution is only putting a band-aid on the problem.

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