Decriminalizing Prostitution
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Institution
Decriminalizing prostitution
Prostitution has turned out to be a job that is registered and included in sets of rules of many countries worldwide to cater to the rights of prostitutes. Given New Zealand countries, their prostitution law discusses issues on how they can sponsor prostitution by covering in detail how they can help protect their jobs from different harms. Other issues like sexually transmitted infections, rape, and condom distribution have also been discussed to promote prostitution as commercial sex work. (Farley, 2004). Therefore, an approved Committee of Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has also been created to shed some light on specific countries where women trafficking and prostitution have skyrocketed. For instance, China, which still struggles with prostitution-linked problems, has been advised to seek and adopt the committee’s recommendation and decriminalize prostitution to reduce the rate of human rights violations linked to it. (Chan, 2006). In conjunction with this, the act of legalizing prostitution has some pros and cons, which are as follows;
Pros of decriminalizing prostitution.
Commercial sex work is broadly supported by medical and human rights agencies around the world. The World Health Organization has recently been seen and heard denouncing the criminalization of prostitution by countries. It backs thorough research on ways to lower the rate of AIDS transmission and other sexually related infections.
Secondly, prostitution is argued to have empowered women differently as it is a choice that they’ve made in their lives. The women involved usually join the industry freely and without being forced, serving their democratic right to work.
Lastly, legalizing prostitution will make the women involved even safer, to mean that they will not be encountering police and other law enforcement agencies as they will be free to conduct their work on a peaceful ground.
Cons for decriminalizing prostitution.
Different organizations, especially the feminist ones, argue that prostitution exploits women, which is an abuse of vulnerability. Some women may end up being oppressed by championing gender inequality.
Commercial sex working is also hazardous as it is a form of violence to the women. Sometimes, they could experience physical abuse like rape, especially when they meet men who surpass their strength. Others could also be brutally killed.
Can the decriminalizing of prostitution be harmful?
In my opinion, legalizing prostitution could be harmful to society. It will be anybody’s work in the street as it will also influence young, growing, and even schooling girls to venture in, something unacceptable at all cost.
References.
Chan, J. (2006). Decriminalization of prostitution in China. New Eng. J. Int’ l & Comp. L., 13, 329.
Farley, M. (2004). “Bad for the body, bad for the heart”: Prostitution harms women even if legalized or decriminalized. Violence against women, 10(10), 1087-1125.