Persuasive Essay Benefits Of Prostitution

Most people believe that they deserve the rights they are granted by the government. A prime example of this is the right to do what you want with your body, as long as you don’t hurt anybody else. This is considered a basic human right and is provided for in the constitution. One example of where you should be able to do whatever you want with your body is prostitution. The government always has too much power over our health. It can draft us and make us go into internment camps like the Japanese in WW2. It certainly shouldn’t say whether or not we have the right to pay for sex with a consenting adult.

For women its all they can do in order to break themselves of being poverty stricken sometimes. So who are we to deprive them of their right to do whatever they want with their body? It could be the only thing that keeps them from feeding there family from a dumpster. Nevertheless, the government doesn’t care about that, all it cares about is regulating something it sees as supposedly “bad,” that is paying for sex. One of the benefits of legalizing prostitution would be that the government would actually be able to regulate it. This would make it a more supervised practice, so it wouldn’t spread AIDS and herpes and other diseases. The prostitutes could be tested just like they are tested in places where it is legal, such as Las Vegas.

The cold hard fact is that by putting a restriction on the solicitation of sex the government essentially is putting a restriction on ones personal freedoms. A state of being, which many Americans expect. Not only that, the United States is known for and based upon the idea of its individual freedoms for each citizen, yet in some forms, it still ceases to exist. Not to say that a p...

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... Besides, according to s study done by U.S. Consumer Advocates for Sexual Freedom, “The economic rewards of prostitution are currently greater than any of the other professions available to women.” Besides this, the fact that women if they are really good prostitutes could make basically as much money as they want to make. There is no glass ceiling their!

Finally we can see that with both men and women getting into this profession, they know what they are getting into. They know that they are selling their bodies for sex. Being from supporting a family to the freedom of choice, prostitution has its reasons why it should be legal and the U.S. government should not be able to stop it. Sadly though this profession is and probably will always be considered wrong, but for some it’s all there is to give a ray of hope and sunshine into their otherwise bleak worlds.