Should Prostitution Be Legal - 1230 Words

Prostitution is one of the ‘world’s oldest professions’ that continues to survive centuries of stigma and denunciation. In, Australia, being involved in a paid sexual encounter is not illegal, however each state has its own individual jurisdictions that criminalise particular areas of prostitution. Today, states including NSW, VIC, QLD and ACT have laws that primarily decriminalize prostitution. Whilst NT, TAS, SA WA have an almost criminal approach. Such laws were established to uphold society’s moral values of loyalty and commitment that undermined such a sacred act and to also avert harm by restricting the commodity of sex for those underage and/or trafficked. Although, originally intended to create a safer environment for sex†¦show more content†¦A minority of women enter the sex industry due to its high earnings, flexible work hours or purely for the enjoyment. However, for the vast majority, their exceptionally deprived childhood is what leads them to prostitution as a means of survival. ‘An astounding 96% of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations’ and 66% of those girls began working at just the age of sixteen. Additionally, studies revealed that ‘more than half of children prostitutes are alcoholics or substance abusers’ and 90% became prostitutes after being raped. These statistics are representing the MOST vulnerable within the sex industry. These girls who share a similar age with the girls at OUR school, are the most at risk in the human sex trafficking world. By legalizing prostitution or decimalizing the sex industry, this is an ultimate pathway to paradise for ‘pimps’ behind brothels and traffickers who exploit prostitutes. Former Deputy PM of Sweden, Winberg stated that to â€Å"succeed in combating trafficking†¦we [must work] simultaneously to abolish prostitution.’ In a desperate act to prohibit the trafficking of immigrant women, in 2000 the Netherlands legalised prostitution. However, three years later the Amsterdam major, one of few, admitted that the well-intended law had failed its people. He disclosed that it ‘appeared impossible to create a safe and controllable zone for women that was not open to [trafficking] and organized crime.† Instead, these men who were