Essay 1 Rough Draft

America is a sex crazed country and sadly sex sells. Sex sells in advertising, entertainment, and in businesses. Models, strippers, showgirls, burlesque dancers, and prostitutes; they all have one thing in common, they use their body to make them money. Out of that list prostitution is the only one that is illegal excluding in Nevada and Rhode Island. Prostitution is one of the worlds oldest professions and can be found in every culture. Although prostitution is seen as degrading, controlled prostitution is a good idea to make legal throughout America because it would create a safer environment for the women, sex crime rates would decrease, and viruses would decrease.


In order to control prostitution their must be brothels put in place, which would need to have a business license. When prostitutes register into a brothel they get regular health check ups for sexually transmitted diseases and condoms are mandatory. By having legalized brothels prostitutes would have the freedom and the security of being able to have health care and reject any client that they would not like to work with. Because brothels are usually in rural areas they are away from the cities and neighborhoods, which takes away the unwanted environment that include drugs, and crime. Because brothels have a license no girls under the age of eighteen would be allowed to prostitute themselves in a brothel, this would take away any under age girls from being trafficked. By being in a safe are the prostitutes would be safe from any violence such as assault and rape, that would normally take place with street prostitution . Police officers are more obligated to work with license brothels and file reports, where as when they work with street prostitutes the girls are left on their own or they risk getting arrested being that prostitution is illegal. When women register at the brothel they can state if they want to be full time or part time meaning they go into the business being able to freely quit at anytime, prostitutes would not have the be scared of their “pimp” coming after them for wanting to leave. Another plus that can be seen in brothels is that narcotics are not allowed on the premises of the brothel.

Why should adult shows be legal and controlled prostitution be illegal when both of them in some way degrade women. Prostitution has been around for ages and has been accepted and not accepted throughout the decades. Every town and city has that one street that has it’s street prostitutes and there is usually a neighborhood close by. Because street prostitution involves so many illegal acts, such as drugs and under age trafficking, making licensed brothels would create a safe alternative to street prostitution. Although prostitution is seen as unprincipled and degrading, controlled prostitution would be good to make legal throughout America in order to create a safer environment for the women because with normal prostitution sex crime rates would increase, viruses would freely spread, and street prostitution would continue to create an unsafe and unwanted environments in social areas as well as in neighborhoods.