"It is estimated that if prostitution were legalized in the United States, the rape rate would decrease by roughly 25% for a decrease of approximately 25,000 rapes per year...."
With the legalization of prostitution, rape rates would go down in the sense that rapists could get whatever pleasures they are looking for from someone actually willing to do so.
A General Accounting Office report states that over 30 percent of the inmates in most women's jails are convicted prostitutes.
This is way too big of a percentage for women in jail for prostitution. These spaces need to be reserved for murderers, robbers, etc.
Contrary to assumptions that women enter the prostitution market only because they are desperate – that they need money to pay bills or buy drugs – the study indicates that many women, especially educated, affluent women, are making a rational decision to enter certain segments of the prostitution market. However, the research confirmed that women do not explicitly choose to enter the streetwalking segment of the prostitution market.
The generalization that prostitutes are typically "bums" or do not want to get an "actual" job, is proven to be false. Women with good educations enter the prostitution market by choice.
Belle Knox, known primarily as the Duke University Porn Star, recently wrote an informative op-ed for Rolling Stone supporting the legalization of prostitution in the US. She contended that it’s contradictory that she’s allowed to have sex for money on camera, but when someone does it behind closed doors it becomes a crime.
Prostitution is no different than pornography, which is legal. In both instances, people are getting paid to engage in sexual activity.
It’s estimated that there are around 30 million victims of human trafficking around the world. More than half of the victims (55 percent) are women or girls.
If prostitution was the be made a legal, women could be HIRED voluntarily, rather than women and young girls being forced into it.
And if prostitution is a legal profession, it could be taxed!
Not only would these women have control over their own bodies, the government could also benefit from their profession through taxes.
Instead, laws making prostitution a crime and barring related activities, such as running a brothel, have driven the profession underground, which endangers prostitutes—who are mostly female—and makes them vulnerable to violence at the hands of both pimps and johns.
People on the opposing side of prostitution will say that it is unsafe, but if it was to be made legal, prostitutes would not have to sneak around, and would have further protection under the law.
Nevada only allows prostitution in licensed brothels that test workers routinely for sexually transmitted infections.
Prostitution can be very professional as long as the institutions are properly licensed and the employees are checked out as well.
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere,
Poet can be refering to the spider web & whatever was caught inside it