She realized at that moment that she made $100 in 10 minutes. She soon came to terms and realized that this was her only way out. She wasn't doing it to make it a career, she was doing it to survive. She soon got up enough money to get her family back state side and she never looked back. .
IV.(Relevancy Statement).
According to my audience analysis questionnaire, only about 27% of you are for legalizing prostitution, and think that it should be legal for a woman to sell her body. Also, over 50% of you are concerned with the spread of STDs(Sexually Transmitted Diseases) by prostitutes, and think that they should be able to press charges for crimes even though they are committing a crime themselves. .
V.(Preview).
Legalizing prostitution will decrease crime, sexually transmitted disease, and provide financial growth for the country. .
(TRANSITION): Prostitution has been around for centuries. You can stop it. Prohibiting hasn't worked. Legalizing prostitution will help fix a lot of our problems. Let's look at some of the problems illegal prostitution contributes to. .
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I. (MAIN POINT 1) (NEED) Keeping prostitution illegal contributes to various problems. .
(INTERNAL PREVIEW:) Illegal prostitution is a gateway for criminal activity. .
A. (SUBPOINT): Increased crime against prostitutes stems from many customers viewing prostitutes as targets for robbery, fraud, rape, and even murder. .
1. (SUB- SUBPOINT)According to the 2009 article titled Legalizing Prostitution, co-contributor Melissa Farley, Director of Prostitution Research and Education in San Francisco stated that based on a survey of 854 people involved in prostitution within the U.S, about 80% of those individuals had been the victim of rape. In the article Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women, Dr. Devon Brewer, Director of the interdisciplinary Scientific Research Dept., in Seattle, Washington stated that the mortality rate for death by homicide among active prostitutes was 621 per 100,000.