Discussion: Legalizing Prostitution
Wednesday November 29, 2006
A forum member writes: In the past I've opposed legalising prostitution - it's not that I dislike prostitutes, quite the opposite, I feel sorry for them and the way they're treated. About a year ago, I saw a documentary contrasting the practices in England and what had been done in Glasgow... I've concluded that the approach in Glasgow, which offered informal liasing between police, security guards who operate private CCTV and prostitutes helped cut down on the number of attacks against prostitutes. The anti-kerb crawling laws in England didn't help prostitutes, but made things worse. Perhaps some form of legalisation or decriminalisation is necessary. Why did I take so long to come round? Maybe I'm too stubborn to admit that I was wrong, but I realised that I didn't know after watching the documentary what was the right approach.
There are strong arguments on both side of the prostitution debate. On the one hand, there are good reasons to want to protect women from sexual exploitation; on the other hand, there are equally good reasons to want to protect anyone from any sort of exploitation when it comes to their job. Why should prostitution be treated differently? Read More...
Comments
anyone working any job is being exploited,and all jobs are demeaning;pretty much every woman I have ever been with “sold” their sex for something,what two people choose to do has nothing to do with criminals that rape women…rapists rape all kinds of women,so by the argument of protecting prostitutes from rapists is a reason for outlawing prostitution,why not protect them further and make being a woman illegal?