It is a service industry like any other exchange of skills for money. Workers in the sex industry deserve the same rights as any other workers. .
From an economical point of vie, legalizing prostitution will benefit the Government. In the UK for example, the amount spent on prostitutes per year is about 770m. of pounds. If they would pay taxes, the Government would get about 260m of pounds, which will lead to a considerable increase in GDP.
Prostitution is an industry like any other. If it comes to being legalized, both parties would benefit from the agreement. Government will get its taxes, while women or man working in the industry, will be safer: they won"t have to pay to a "Mac" or a gang for protection, or for using territories, they will have health insurances, they will have retirement benefits so they won"t have to worry about their "old days",hey will be protected from violence and abuse. Legalizing prostitutions will also prevent child prostitutions, "child" means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. .
Let's not forget that prostitution is above all a personal choice. If the person has been forced to prostitute herself/himself, by legalizing it, the Government will prevent that. They can create internationals programs, which will help ancient prostitutes who do not which to work at such anymore, to train and find another job. Prostitutes have always been and still are regarded as inferior people. Society treats them so. .
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Prostitutions is "legal" in Holland (meaning it's illegal, but so are drugs, the Dutch ust look the other way), and the crime figures show that rape (as a percentage) is lower here than in almost every part of the U.S. On the whole, the crime rate is lower here than in the United States of America.
It's not the prostitutes fault. Do you really think they want to gamble with their lives every time they entertain a customer? Aside from AIDS, there are houses were the "Madame" will allow abuse, provided the customer pays enough for it! (In Holland, they actually have a S&M college where professional submissive and professional dominators have get their certificates from.
