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Running head: LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION

Legalizing Prostitution
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Introduction

Most people believe that they deserve the rights they are granted by the government. A
prime example of this is the right to do what you want with your body, as long as you don’t hurt
anybody else. This is considered a basic human right and is provided for in the constitution.
One example of where you should be able to do whatever you want with your body is
prostitution. The government always has too much power over our health. It can draft us and
make us go into internment camps like the Japanese in WW2. It certainly shouldn’t say whether
or not we have the right to pay for sex with a consenting adult (Weitzer, 2005).

For women it is all they can do in order to break themselves of being poverty stricken
sometimes. So who are we to deprive them of their right to do whatever they want with their
body? It could be the only thing that keeps them from feeding there family from a dumpster.
Nevertheless, the government doesn’t care about that, all it cares about is regulating something it
sees as supposedly “bad,” that is paying for sex. One of the benefits of legalizing prostitution
would be that the government would actually be able to regulate it. This would make it a more
supervised practice, so it wouldn’t spread AIDS and herpes and other diseases. The prostitutes
could be tested just like they are tested in places where it is legal, such as Las Vegas.

The cold hard fact is that by putting a restriction on the solicitation of sex the government
essentially is putting a restriction on ones personal freedoms. A state of being, which many
Americans expect. Not only that, the United States is known for and based upon the idea of its
individual freedoms for each citizen, yet in some forms, it still ceases to exist. Not to say that a
person should go out and put there life on the line with some government official because he
doesn’t have the right to pay for sex, just saying that it is an unjustifiable law and should some

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way be brought down and changed. The way of doing so could be through protesting and
reaching the people through to its beneficial aspects as well as voting towards its legalization if
there was a law or an ordinance up for a vote. Even one city, even Corvallis could start this, and
it wouldn’t be a bad place because hey, there are a lot of frat guys around here who would spend
the extra buck or two for sex. A hard endless battle to be sure but one which is worth it to men
and to women alike.

Nevada, the one state with the most tourist attractions some of the nicest weather, and
considered by many as paradise, has already legalized this recreational activity. They have
decided the money put forth by the government would be better used in supervising prostitution
rather than fighting against it and making people’s lives miserable. One part of the process of
keeping order and safety within the industry is by controlling the prostitutes acts at work. The
prostitutes must all sign an agreement that they will report of anyone is violent toward...