should it be legal (Should prostitution be legalised?)

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Product:	Should prostitution be legalised?
Date:	22/03/09 (65 review reads)
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Advantages: could make it safer for some

Disadvantages: wouldnt really help those who are at risk now

Should prostitution be legalised, that's the question and im sure the answer must be yes. Would that mean that more people would visit brothels, and more women would want to get into the industry, well I don't actually think it would myself. I know that I couldn't ever see myself visiting a brothel for sex even if it was legal, I think id be far too embarrassed to go in and I wouldn't even dare walk near a prostitute I saw on the street.

However that's my views, and despite mine there obviously not everyone's as there are prostitutes on the streets making money from selling sex. They are at risks from STD's as well as being attacked and its just not a nice way to make a living. I'm sure a legal brothel wouldn't be a much nicer way for a girl to make a living unless she was really enjoying what she was doing.

However I'm not totally convinced that legalising prostitution and bringing it all inside would mean there would be less prostitutes on the streets, most are forced into prostitution because of drug addictions or debt and need the money to live and do prostitution as a last resort. These are the kind of people that legal brothels would accept any way, and then what would they do, they would just go straight back out onto the streets again so I think it wouldn't necessarily help everyone.

I'm sure making prostitution legal would make it safer for most prostitutes to work, however I think it would also turn into a case of only the good looking girls will get the work at the brothels, and only the clean girls too, so what about the girls who are addicted to drugs, and do need help, well they'll just have even less customers on the streets as men would rather go to a legal brothel and then it would not help these people at all.

Summary: would do some good, but not much