If prostitution is indeed the world's oldest profession, then it might also be one of the world's oldest controversies. Prostitution combines sex and money, two subjects guaranteed to create conflict. While some advocates insist that legalizing prostitution would reduce crime, they're met head on by another group decrying the idea of bringing the sex trade into the open. Should prostitution be legal?
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i think it should be legal if a consenting male wants to use his hard earn money for some service to get him off and a consenting women wants to so the service for it well why the hell not its the women body and the mans money and vice verse (you do have women paying too)i find it odd cause no one has views on having sex for free so y is it a issue if you collect money
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My opinion on legalizing prostitution is best put into words by American comedian George Carlin: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? Why is it illegal to sell something that is perfectly legal to give away for free? Of all the things you can sell, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world."
Our prostitution laws are pased on religious morality, not rational thinking. If prostitution is legalized, our laws should mirror that of Europe. Germany's laws on this issue (which are typical of western Europe) require that prostitutes be at least 18, must be registered with the federal government, and must have regular screenings for STD's. These laws make complete sense. Banning it is not going to help. In fact it'll make things worse. Leaving prostitution unregulated leaves America vulnerable to STD's. Just compare infection rates between America (where prostitution is illegal and unregulated and most sex-ed programs are abstinence only) and Europe (where prostitution is legal and tightly regulated and most sex-ed programs are comprehensive). That alone is proof that America's way of dealing with this issue is not working.
With strip clubs littering neighborhood and pornography all over HBO after dark what dramatic difference would legalizing prostitution make besides lowering the number of arrest and increasing safety of prostitutes. If strippers can twirl on a pool and get money flung at why can't a prostitute do give sex away for money? If a pornstar can have lustless sex and have it aired on televison why can't a prostitute perform their "job" behind closed doors. If you discriminate this then you must discrimate against anything found unethnical or inmoral. Their decision has nothing to do with your opinion.
How come you guys have to make everything about you? Geez.
I voted no, and I'll tell you why. Diseases spread through sexual contact before AIDS came on the scene could be isolated and quarantined by forcing carriers to be completely healed before proceeding with their nasty profession. But now, political correctness forbids forced quarantine of sexually transmitted disease.
I would be open to the idea of legalizing the nasty profession only if diseased persons could be forcibly quarantined.
Morality laws can not be enforced. Murder should not be illegal because is immoral, it should be illegal because it violates a persons freedom to live. Rape violates a persons right to choose who, where, why, and when they have sex with. And making prostitution illegal also violates this same right. So laws against prostitution are no worse than prostitution it's self, as long as your ethics and morality are based on self determination, free will, and a person's right to be free to make decisions for themselves. This is the same reason drugs should be legal .
I never understood the argument that legalizing prostitution should be a panacea for all of its problems before we legalize it.
Keeping alcohol legal doesn't solve all the problems
We haven't solved all the traffic problems.
People still accidentally kill themselves with... well all kinds of things.
Fuck what about on the job accidents with mining and construction or whatever?
Agriculture is the oldest profession.
Legalizing prostitution is tantamount to the Government endorsing it - and the government should not endorse it for any reason. There's no reason for anybody to endorse it that I can see.
Excuses otherwise:
"I needed the money ; I was broke." - an excuse for laziness
"I needed to get off." - an excuse for a sociopathic inability to have a mutual relationship with someone
"I pay for other services, why not this one? There's no good reason." - an excuse for seeing other people as commodities to be bought or sold
"It's gonna happen anyway." - An excuse legitimizing it in one's own mind
That is really stupid, I mean REALLY stupid. Government legalizing something is not endorsing it. Government has legalized alcohol and yet they still tax it quite a bit. Government still keeps cigarettes legal and yet pours tax money into anti- smoking crap.
Hell if they wanted to endorse it they would give brothels tax breaks.
""I needed the money ; I was broke." - an excuse for laziness "
So working for money is now laziness if you don't approve of the job?
"I pay for other services, why not this one? There's no good reason." - an excuse for seeing other people as commodities to be bought or sold"
You are not paying for them you are paying for a specific service. If you hire a prostitute you can't demand that they do housework.
You have nothing but weak excuses.
I was in the war in Iraq, I saw a lot of soldiers return home wounded and depressed, I know that a lot of wonderful women helped the soldiers to recover, and from that experience I can't come to the conclusion that " prostitution is no good"
and I sure don't have the right to be sanctimonious
How any woman could support sex abuse labelled " prostitution " is beyond me. How any decent man would allow his name to be associated with any legislation or petition for such a thing is incomprehensible. Prostitution is a sin, it destroys marriages, corrupts men and leads to the widespread spread of infectious diseases. I wish the liberals would stop deluding themselves that Amsterdam or whatever is a model for the US of A. The only people who support this sort of thing are looking to make a few bucks from this outrageous enterprise or else they're sexually perverted men looking to justify their draining of the family bank accounts in pursuit of their unchecked physical urges. Think of Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York. and what it did to his family.
This debate is not about sex abuse . It is about prostitution . Arbitrarily equating the two is the definition of straw man.
Just because there are people within an industry that taint the profession with criminal activity, such as the coercive pimp, or customers that violate the rights of the prostitute, does not mean we should ban the profession altogether. Instead, the government 's legitimate role is to focus on the criminals within the industry, rather than putting a blanket ban on an otherwise voluntary transaction between consenting adults.
An equivalent of your argument would be for me to say, "How any person could support fraud labeled as 'Retail' is beyond me," presuming that because some accessory entrepreneurs sell fake handbags, this problem should be equated with handbag retail in general, and we should therefore ban the sale of handbags as an industry, in its entirety. The principle behind this ridiculous reasoning is the same as the reasoning behind your argument against the profession of prostitution qua prostitution. Prostitution as a profession does not involve coercion, manipulation, or "sex abuse," in the same way that selling handbags does not intrinsically involve fraud. The only legitimate ban would be on the coercion, manipulation, and "sex abuse" itself, not on the profession as a whole, which is by definition and by principle voluntary and free of criminality.
Also, it is irrelevant what you think the consequences of patronizing a prostitute are ("it destroys marriages, corrupts men," etc..). Banning it is morally wrong, because it involves using the government's monopoly on physical force to enforce your subjective morality, be it religious or whatever. It is up to us to treat people as adults who can make their own decisions and deal with the consequences of these decisions, rather than children who must be forced to do what is, in your subjective opinion, in their interest, regardless of what we would do in their place.
As a sidenote, your assertion that prostitution leads to "widespread of infectious diseases," as a reason why it should be banned, is both factually doubtful and morally wrong. In the same way that leaving the food industry relatively free of regulation has not led to widespread food poisoning, the statistical data from countries that do leave prostitution relatively alone has shown that disease has not generally been a problem in the industry (see specific references in the expert debate). Even if it did lead to the widespread contraction of STDs in those who patronize prostitutes, which it does not, that risk is the responsibility of the one who makes the decision, and in no way allows a third party, such as yourself, to dictate what he should or should not do, by law . Hang-gliding is risky, yet it is not illegal , because those who do it are 1) generally careful, and 2) recognized as adults who are making a voluntary decision, and are morally in the right. The same applies to any decision that is peaceful and voluntary, including the decision to buy sexual services.
"Banning it is morally wrong, because it involves using the government 's monopoly on physical force to enforce your subjective morality, be it religious or whatever"
If morality is relative, then everyone is both right and wrong and we can have no laws because we would not all agree on anything. If morality comes from somewhere, we will disagree on where or how it should be used.
You're saying it is immoral to ban prostitution because it is in your opinion the government enforcing one person's subjective morality -- but aren't you also pushing your personal morality by saying that tactic would be immoral? You can't have it both ways. Your morality can't trump anyone else's.
All laws are based on morality -- someone's, somewhere. You can say you don't agree with their morals, but if you believe that everyone's morality is equal, you ideally couldn't even complain because you have to allow others and be tolerant of others' morals.
It is a conundrum.
Jerica-
I do not believe that "everyone's morality is equal." Moral relativism is exactly what I am against. The reason why I defined the original poster's morality as subjective is because his ethics are derived from either a religious, mystical viewpoint (God) or from an emotionalistic viewpoint (his feelings). Neither of these sources are valid precisely because they are subjective, and not objective.
Objective morality, a morality based on reality and a rational, objective standard, man's life, can be recognized without referencing an unprovable supernatural source or throwing the whole thing out and appealing to emotion or whim (relativism). If that which enhances man's life is good, and that which threatens it is evil (this is a biologically objective standard), then the initiation of violence, in any form, is evil, for it is objectively antithetical to life.
The only objective law , therefore, would be that which defends life from violence, not that which uses violence as a means to a subjective end (in this case, prohibiting prostitution through law, and thereby through the use of physical force). You are right that all laws are based on morality - in philosophy, politics is essentially a subset of ethics. The question is, should these laws be based on an objective morality, as demonstrated, or a subjective morality? Should the government be used as a tool for majority or minority pressure groups to enforce their non-objective, ethically-arbitrary assertions? Should the government be a way for these groups to validate the use of physical violence to achieve any end they deem "necessary" or "good" for society ?
This is the way our government is now - a tool for any group with enough influence or luck to strike gold and institutionalize, by force, its subjective views. However, this is injustice incarnate, the exact thing the government should be protecting against, not validating. Whether the one deciding which subjective view to enshrine in law is a majority (as in democracy ), the proletariat (as in communism), or the dictator (as in a dictatorship or monarchy), the principle is still the same: a subject, whether individual or group of individuals, dictates to society which arbitrary viewpoint is to be enforced.
The only system which would do away with the political subject entirely, and enshrine only objective law, would be a system in which the protection against such subjective, coercive tyranny is held as the only valid role of government, in which the objective principle of non-coercion is the sovereign political ethic, allowing all personal or subjective moral systems to operate peacefully and without help from the legislature.
What someone does with their body is their business and the government has no business intruding on that right.
Regulate it, tax the hell out of it, and watch the cash flow. I feel the same way about illicit drugs .
Very Young Girls....a documentary by David Schisgall....watch it and then tell me that we shouldn't punish the propagators of these crimes (because it is a crime ) or the people who think that prostitution is an informed choice that women make. The people who say prostitution should be legal are living in a FANTASY WORLD!!
You've got your head up your ass if you think none of them choose to do it.
This shouldn't be a religious debate.
We are talking about politics here. If due to your religion , you believe prostitution is wrong, then don't partake in it. We should be more concerned with if legalization would, increase prostitution? Would regulation of prostitution, mandating std tests cut down on STD's? Would legalization better protect the safety of women ? Would the amount of rapes go down, if men are able to release their sexual urges in a safe manner?
The question should be asked. Will it be beneficial to United States citizens to legalize? Not, does your religion allow it. Also, does an adult deserve the right to be able to make a decision to participate in things like this?
While the media bemoans the divorce rate, and single mothers are considered a difficulty, who in their right minds would consider legalizing prostitution ?
Why is it that such practices are being stopped in other countries but here we consider it??? This makes no sense.
Yes, there is a moral argument, but many will shoot down moral arguments because moral arguments supposedly are supposedly 'personal' and only have to do with one persons 'beliefs'. If you hadnt noticed, the law of the land is imposed morality, that is all that it is. But doesn't the question itself 'Should Prostitution be Legal' deal directly with personal, moral issues?
Then there is the medical argument. STDs are transmitted by ... having sex . If a man has sex with a prostitute then he essentially is exposed to what all the men before him had. In this age of AIDS , bad idea.
I am a 20 year old girl and if I decide one day I'm going to whore it up for money I don't think anyone should make that choice for me. I mean really the guys are paying for it one way or another. When a woman is dating a guy he's paying for the dates in hopes that she's going to sleep with him. So there isn't much difference if the woman makes him pay for the sex up front...
to all those invoking the name of religion in your arguement: the fact of the matter is that Europe is the place where prostitution is most legal . it's here in the good old USA that we're so uptight.
Perhaps the real question should be, should be work to achieve the kind of society where no woman ever feels the need to become a prostitute? I'm pretty sure that few women grow up saying "I want to be a hooker." Having said that, if it exists, it should be regulated to protect the health and security of the women and their clients.
I'm just going to call it as I see it. I have never, nor would I ever pay for sex . Having said that, it's none of my business if someone else does. As long as no one's being hurt, what difference does it make? I know people will argue that people are exploited, which that argument could be made for ANYONE with a job! I'm exploited daily by my company so they can make insane profits while I juggle my bills to see which I can pay.
It's not called the World's oldest profession for nothing. Prostitution has been around forever. There's apparently no stopping it. What Nevada did makes sense. By legalizing it, they were able to tax it, thus bringing in more state revenue. Secondly, they were able to put stricter controls on it. People working as prostitutes must submit to testing to control the transmission of STDs. Condoms are supplied, government inspections are done, and it's kept under strict control. The individual towns and cities in Nevada have the final say as to whether or not it's legal there. Prostitution within Las Vegas city limits is illegal . They don't want the tourists exposed to it. I'd actually like to see it legal everywhere, though I'd never use it. It takes the prostitutes off the streets, lessens the amount of crime towards prostitutes, and helps control the spread of STDs. Prostitutes working illegally on the streets are often the targets for violent crimes, and you never know what they're carrying. Maybe they're been working just to earn drug money , which puts them and the "buyer" at higher risk.
I'm not saying make it isn't a moral issue, it is. But moral issues should be made by the individual, not government. We are all responsible for our own actions. We've turned into a society that wants government to baby sit us. Isn't it about time we stop crying, stop arguing over petty disagreements, and start taking responsibility for our own actions, and live our lives according to our own moral standards. Stop bickering over petty issues, and focus on the bigger ones!
These rights, above all, include self-determination. As a sexworker myself, i feel passionate about legalizing prostitution . Where i work it's legal - i don't have to fear the police , and i'm recognised as a human being capable of making decisions for myself. Anyone ever heard "my body, my choice"? Sadly, the people who advocate this often turn their backs on this fundamental principle as soon as women 's sexuality is concerned. Outlawing sexual services in a society where every other fundamental human need is being catered to, shows a unhealthy hatred for one of the world's most joyful activities.
are you really one? do you know that some of your co- workers and only 5? ever heard of principles? ever heard of exploitation? do you know that sexual services and sexworker is just a euphemism? do you know that your body doesn't really belong to you cause you've already traded it for money ? do you know that this joyful activity is considered by many extremely disgusting and perverse?
to tell you the truth i cannot believe you are a prostitute. my body my choice. that's usually what i would say if my boyfriend ever wants me to have sex . if you cared so much how come you don't care now?
Do you think that if someone's being exploited in whatever kind of job, everyone who does the same is automatically exploited? Or vice versa, becaus most are happy in their job, there are not people who have to do the same thing under terrible conditions ? It's about under which conditions and attitude you do it that determines if a job is heaven or hell. Yes I am really a sexworker. .. i care for "my body my choice" in every aspect. Nobody has the the right to tell anyone what to do and what don't with their body. Yes, i've heard of principles and believe very strongly in them. My principles are respect, kindness and reason. Having sex doesn't contradict these principles, on the contrary- sexuality is a
Strange that i still have my body..i don't see any missing body parts. If i've traded my body it's just like every other worker- we all sell our brains or body one way or the other. If you believe that i've sold my body you seem to believe one person can own the other..you should think about that attitude. So either i sell a service, or everyone else also trades their body- thats just semantics.
You probably are very young- just wait until you get married (or whenever you have sex..) and you'll see that it's not a "disgusting and perverse" thing, but something beautiful and spiritual if you just let it be that. If you have been brought up in the belief that sex is dirty it's maybe difficult to enjoy, but over time you'll learn.
no, i do not believe that everyone is exploited. but i know that MANY are being exploited. so you think your job is a heaven because you love sex ? your life is a heaven because you have sex everyday? attitude? are you asking those women that got sold in the sex trade to accept what they are going through everyday as an average normal, perfectly decent, career? nobody has a right to tell anyone what to do? reflect carefully. the police tells a robber to stop stealing. a parent tells a child not to play with scissors. again, the mind your own business attitude is being covered up by so called rights.
respect, kindness, reason. there is a reason for me to be against prostitution because it forces a five year old girl to sleep with perhaps a 36 year old man. i'm being kind by empathising with sex workers . i respect that women and children need to have a healthy lifestyle like me. do you believe me now? furthermore, how would you know whether the man you are sleeping with is married or not. if you sleep with a married amn aren't you being disrespectful and unkind to his wife?
i did not liken prositution to an organ transplant. what i mean is that for the sake of carnal lust and money you compromise the dignity and sanctity of your own body. people can "sell" their brains because intellect and wisdom is something worth respecting.
also, i do not believe sex is perverse and disgusting. sex done in love and respect for each other is beautiful because it is mutual trust. what you do is just throwing yourself at men at the sight of money. what they think when they see you is what carnal lust you can fulfill. is that not dirty enough?
yes i am young and i will wait till i get married till i have sex.
Did you seriously just compare choosing to be a prostitute with a 5 year old being forced into the sex slave?
Wow. That's like comparing regular sex to rape , and if you don't see the difference you're a danger to society .
Anyway if you think it's degrading then you can choose to not do it instead of trying to force everyone to submit to your wishes.
in certain situations I can understand why women must sell themselves (Although, that's another issue in society of why we don't help them... That's a different issue.) But I would be afraid to say "yes" in the fact it is a major ailment to health and it runs a greater risk with society. Human trafficking is already a major issue with prostitution being illegal , if it is legal , wouldn't that just feed more into SLAVERY!
It would also give our children a ridiculous asumption and aspriations for their future.
It is a health risk... Well we all know why it is a health risk.
"Human trafficking is already a major issue with prostitution being illegal , if it is legal , wouldn't that just feed more into SLAVERY! "
And by making prostitution legal a good part of the reason for human trafficking (supplying prostitutes) would be removed... reducing slavery.
I see where you're coming from. Although, it would just be easier to produce slaves and those slaves would [probably] be cheaper. Also, human trafficking would not go down. If forced prostitution would, unlikly, decline, it would just feed into more slavery issues such as forced labor .
It would be easier to recruit free employees, because of the lack of a legal risk. With legalization and regulation forced prostitution would still be illegal (and detectable) so it would remain 'in the shadows'. The difference is that people looking to visit a prostitute would have a legal choice to turn to (one that could have its services advertised).
This would cut into the market for illegal prostitution as the legal choice would be highly visible, and much safer (little risk of being robbed and no risk of being arrested ).
This legalization would not impact those after what would still be an illegal act (such as an interest in minors) but then no level of legalization will impact that.
But, in the case of legalized prostitution , then it would still be easier for illegal slavery, because no one would suspect it, no forms would need to be filed, it would be cheaper, and it's not hard to turn someone to fear.
Yes, the legal market would be SAFER, but not easier. Also, just because there is trafficking doesn't mean there is no advertisment.
Of course it would still be an illegal act, but that does not stop drug trafficking (or still, human trafficking at that.) So you're saying that even if prostitution becomes legal that it would not affect it at all? As in, it would not go up or down. Just stay the same? That's just another problem at hand!
"But, in the case of legalized prostitution , then it would still be easier for illegal slavery, because no one would suspect it, no forms would need to be filed, it would be cheaper, and it's not hard to turn someone to fear"
That is why it would not just be legalized, but regulated as well.
"Yes, the legal market would be SAFER, but not easier. Also, just because there is trafficking doesn't mean there is no advertisment. "
Why wouldn't the legal market be easier? People could openly run establishments that would be publicly visible. One could recruit legal prostitutes without the risk that comes from attempting to enslave people.
Or let me ask this... did the end of prohibition increase or decrease the market for illegal liquor?
"Of course it would still be an illegal act, but that does not stop drug trafficking "
I never said that it would stop human trafficking... just that by allowing for legal prostitution the demand for illegal sex workers would decrease.
"So you're saying that even if prostitution becomes legal that it would not affect it at all?"
I am often puzzled by people assumption that such binary states exist... either legalized prostitution has no effect on human trafficking or it eliminates human trafficking. Rather you would likely find that while legalized prostitution would decrease the demand for human trafficking it would not eliminate it.
Start contacting your congressmen and the local PTA. Tell them of your ideas. Take votes from your local churches. Go door to door and have a petition signed. Present it to your city council. God Luck.
Alayna Staggers, nurse, mom, and grandmother
and Pro-Life Activist
Prostitution should be legal , and taxed, so should drugs , and possibly gambling , all victimless crimes.
Hell Yes
One of the thrills of getting a prostitute is because it is illegal...at lest that's what my pastor says.
legalizing prostitution is just asking for trouble.First and foremost is the disease's that is already being passed around from this, I mean you would have to be pretty desperate to even pertake in this act, and look at the women (and men) that you see trying to sell there bodies it is downright disgusting.
You know the good thing is we are all intitled to our opinion and mine is that it is your body you should be intitled to do what you want with it,and if you happen to disagree with it don't do it but don't try to force your belief on other people,and try to pass judgement on them that is not our place it's that simple, remember an opinion is only valued if it is asked for!!!I personal don't appove of such actions that is only my opinion and I do not pass harsh judgement on those who do.
well said. We will all be judged at judgement day.
The essential value at the root of civilization versus barbarism, of U.S. origins and explicit in the U.S. Constitution is mutual respect for individual right to self-determination and the liberty to exercise that right. The basic act of prostitution - one individual selling their body, knowledges, talents and skills in sexual pleasure to another individual for fair value in return - is in agreement with that essential value. In other words, at its most basic understanding, prostitution is a civilized act in compliance with the ideals of free enterprise. A free market cannot exist without mutual respect for an individual's right to self-determination and the liberty to exercise that right. If you believe a man has a right and ought to be at liberty to sell an automobile belonging to him for fair monetary compensation, to be consistent in your thinking, you must agree an individual has the right and ought to be at liberty to sell, for fair compensation, access to their physical body, knowledges, talents and skills for the purposes of sexual pleasure. If the automobile rightly belongs to the man, who could or would successfully argue against his liberty to sell it? If the customer rightly possesses the money or comparable value to exchange for that automobile, who could or would successfully argue against his liberty to purchase it?
It should be assumed that not all economic transactions in all marketplaces involve the fair and uncoerced exchange of value for value and such unfair and coerced transactions are as common in the prostitution marketplace as in any other. Still, in every marketplace - prostitution included - there have been, are and will be transactions that take place which are fair and uncoerced exchanges of value for value. Because these transactions do not violate the essential value of the free market nor that of the U.S. Constitution (the supreme law of the land), and because we in the United States at least pay lip service to respect for a free market and the U.S. Constitution, prostitution, like any other service industry, ought to be legal and protected from unfair practices and interference.
The basic assumption in a civilization is that an individual human being owns full right to their person and the knowledge, talents and skills and creative product of the same. This is what we usually intend when we say we have "individual rights". A human being owns their own life (and, on another topic, they own their own death). The act of prostitution could not be more closely related to this basic assumption at the root of civilization - the "prostitute" has sole ownership of their body and what they do with it insofar as they respect that same right in others. They may not rightly force a sexual act on another nor may another force a sexual act upon them. So too, no one can rightly prevent them from performing a sexual act for just compensation nor may anyone prevent the customer from exchanging a just value for a sexual act. No third party can rightly own the body of the prostitute or the body of the customer. Assuming a fair exchange is taking place, the act of prostitution cannot be rightly prevented and to do so violates the wording and spirit of the U.S. Constitution. Laws banning prostitution may be written and enforced, but they cannot be written or enforced RIGHTLY.
Laws and acts to prevent or punish prostitution are unjust and always have been.
It is already legal in Nevada. So HOW do you prosecute people in the rest of the states for doing the same thing??
Especially since our OWN government has run a house of prostitution !! (The IRS took over the Mustang ranch, BUT kept running it!)
No, it should not be encouraged, but it shouldn't be illegal either.
In the 1970s I spent plenty of time in Hamburg, Germany, where prostitution was legal . They had to undergo medical exams for the license to operate, and had to undergo testing every two weeks to make certain they carried no communicable diseases.
And Save, have you ever thought about how you would feel if your son, husband or brother visited a prostitute and came down with HIV / AIDS ?
I don't know because you have porn, just stick to that maybe. At the same time I don't care if a girl/guy wants to get paid to do the only thing she/he can to make good money . It would be safer if it was leagal. Hell it could be taxed haha. Imagine getting taxed on your next blowjob/eatting out. (granted it'd be hard to regulate.)
Isn't the main war cry of the pro-baby killing groups: It's the woman's body?
I don't want prostitution to be a career option for my female family members. Why do we not want to teach women to respect their bodies by not allowing men to us them for sex or mutilating them and their babies through abortion ? Men, keep your hands off my children and children of mine, you are not to make yourself available for men to ruin or make money off of you for sex or abortion.
Our bodies belong to God. He paid the price. We are indebted to Him as to what we do with our bodies and our souls. Teach your children to not to give their souls to the devil!
Women who place a low value on themselves are taken advantage of by men and we need to change our thinking about where sex fits into our lives. Old fashioned values will never bring regret. Girls should have lots of family support and love so they don't feel drawn to give their bodies to men who have no caring for them. Teachers, parents, friends, pastors-whomever is involved with my child, please help build my child's self esteem and promote a college education and discourage relationships which will only end in regret. If sex was not promoted in our media and accepted as the norm among young people, we would have fewer abortions. Women pay the price!!
...often do because others, including mothers, grandmothers, and other women , have unnecessarily made them feel that they are "less".
Do you believe that a woman instinctively or naturally feels -- all by themselves without anyone else having introduced or placed the idea into their thinking -- that providing sex for money is "wrong"?
They will not become whores. You don't need to worry about that.
As for my children , if I teach them my beliefs well, they will also not sell sex to pay the bills because they will sell hopefully their intelligence and ingenuity.
For the religious argument, we are not all religious and it is not a given set of rules.
Some people may choose to sell sex if they have nothing better to sell or if that's what they want to sell. Our personal opinions should not be pushed upon them through laws. Push them upon your own children but nobody else and I will do the same.