Prostitution Should Be Kept Illegal

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Prostitution, labeled as a victimless crime, is basically the exchange of money or favors for sexual activity between consenting adults, this type of “victimless” crime is considered illegal in the United States and is punishable by heavy fines or imprisonment of up to ten years, sometimes up to 30 if one party is not of legal age. Prostitution should stay illegal, aside from the basic morality of the situation, prostitution can bring on a whole list of problems for U.S. citizens if allowed to be legalized. To sell ones body in exchange for mony or favors is the choice of an individual, even if the act itself is illegal. But to create a law, in the hopes of protecting citizens, is the job of the government or, when it comes down to it, the majority of the public. The argument that a person has the right to sell their body, for whatever means, and that prostitution should be legalized is not, in fact, very justifiable. The good of the people should come before the good of an individual, just as a drug dealer gets his own drugs legally and they are rightfully his, he cannot sell them to some halfwit kid on the street, the law is there to protect people and, in theory, deter them from doing the deplorable act in the first place. Prostitution is illegal to protect and deter others from risks such as, sexually transmitted diseases, being owned and possibly beaten by a pimp or “procuror of prostitutes”, the many drugs commonly found in that line of buisiness, unwanted pregnancys, and subsequently unwanted child support obligations. Those are the types of things that should not be looked at as “occupational hazard”, children should never be born into a world where they are unwanted and are forced to suffer for the decisions of their parents. Another strong argument is that legalized prostitution allows for more tax revenue, a “safer” environment for the

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