Understanding Prostitution: The World's Oldest Profession

Prostitution is a word that is not unknown us, and many of us are more than familiar with it. It isn 't a secret that it exists, so why is the concept so highly misunderstood? We don 't typically hear any discussions about the profession. Most of the time, we hear teens throwing around the word "whore" at anyone who dares to wear promiscuous clothing. The definition of prostitution is that a person offers sex for the transaction of money, goods, or services. Believe it or not, many sex workers are proud of what they do, and they earn an honest day 's worth in their book. Regardless of whether or not it is legal, people will still buy and sell sex whenever they get the chance- that 's why they call it the world 's oldest profession. Is it okay

Just because it is illegal, doesn 't mean that the market will disappear. Isn 't it possible that the jobs simply moved to more secretive areas of the country? With the threat of arrest or fining, people tend to try harder not to get caught. If people know something is legal, they will be much less careful about who knows they 're doing it. Especially if sex workers are the ones that are penalized, even if they have a pimp. We shouldn 't be making it more dangerous for them, but instead trying to help them so that they aren 't forced into the prostitution world, or forced to work under a pimp. Men and woman all over the world victims of sexual violence because we punish them

There have been several studies that show the increase of trafficking. But other than that, what other reasons are there against it? There really aren 't many good reasons to keep it illegal, are there? I mean, besides people who have moral issues with it. They wouldn 't want to see their daughter a victim of forced sexual labor. The average age for a prostitute starting into the business is thirteen. About 85% of prostitutes have reported being victims of sexual assault or abuse in their child. Those statistics are for illegal prostitution. If we could put in a system, we could prevent the buying and selling of