These are the most essential arguments for and against prostituion. Do you know of others?
Against Legalization: Legalizing prostitution will increase the abuse and rape of women. Women shouldn't be able to sell their bodies.
EDIT: Women who sell the use of their bodies for pleasure create a culture where it becomes okay to think of women's bodies as the only valuable aspect associated with women, wherein men cannot distinguish between the two, and this is insidious
For Legalization: Legaization provides a way to regulate prostitution, which in turn provides for oversight. Since prostitution will exist regardless, there must be mechanisms for control to ensure the safety of those women involved, as well as to ensure that they are paid.
"Against Legalization: (...) Women shouldn't be able to sell their bodies."
ReplyDeleteThis is not an argument; it's an assertion.
True enough. I suppose I should change it to sound like this: Women who sell the use of their bodies for pleasure create a culture where it becomes okay to think of women's bodies as the only valuable aspect associated with women, wherein men cannot distinguish between the two, and this is insidious.
ReplyDeleteThat's an argument, if I ever saw one.
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