Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Opening Statement: Cons for Prostitution

     First of all,Christy and I found that prostitution should be illegal for numerous reasons.The first reason why prostitution is bad is because it can cause women to have an abortion and it affects their health. Besides, having a abortion may be hard for the prostitute to actually have another baby if they want to in the future with their own family. Abortion can cause financial issues which can lead to stress towards the prostitute because they wouldn’t know who the father is since they have sex with so many guy customers.

      Secondly, the reason why prostitution is bad is because it can cause women to have HIV/AIDS and other STD’s but also men can receive it too from the prostitute.These diseases can cause prostitute or men to shorten to their lives. One quote from Jeffrey J.Barrows,D.O states,"Even if a prostitute is being tested every week for HIV, she will test negative for at least the first 4-6 weeks and possibly the first 12 weeks after being infected.... This means that while the test is becoming positive and the results are becoming known, that prostitute may expose up to 630 clients to HIV. This is under the best of circumstances with testing every week and a four-week window period. It also assumes that the prostitute will quit working as soon as he or she finds out the test is HIV positive, which is highly unlikely. This is not the best approach for actually reducing harm. Instead, in order to slow the global spread of HIV/AIDS we should focus our efforts on abolishing prostitution." Although this quote assumes to us that prostitutes would quit their job if they knew that they had HIV positive however some women just need money for their financial problems so then they would just transmit the disease to men anyways which is bad because it is spreading the disease and infecting others. By doing so it would increase the numbers of HIV/AIDS and Other STD’s.

      Lastly, prostitution can lead to human trafficking. Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes for sex or labor.One quote from Margareta Winberg states,"I believe that we will never succeed in combating trafficking in women if we do not simultaneously work to abolish prostitution and the sexual exploitation of women and children. Particularly in light of the fact that many women in prostitution in countries that have legalised prostitution are originally victims of trafficking in women." As you know Trafficking can happen in many different ways. Females would be taken by traffickers from another county with the purpose of prostitution and would be somewhere where they would have to face sex slavery that involves trading and auctioning. Trafficking itself is very scary and dangerous of course because you don’t know where you are going and what is happening. When many girls refuse to listen to orders or commands, they would receive disciplines. This whole idea of trafficking formed by prostitution had not only made females to have sex but also they had to face disciplines.

      As you can see, prostitution is a DREADFUL idea that can cause prostitutes to face financial problems, abortion problems, diseases, and trafficking. Prostitution would also have financial problems because they would have to pay their expenses on abortion fees and doctor check ups.These problems won’t come up if there are no prostitutes around. Over time many diseases had been transmitted and the percentage of abo

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