Debate Against Prostitution: Rebuttal

“People are not forcing these people to go out and sell themselves, so why should it be illegal.On the other hand, if the person buying the prostitute,wants to take the risk and have sex with the prostitute, then why try to stop them. That is a choice that the buyer is making and if he gets an STD, then the only person he can blame is himself.”From Cameron's Blog .

Jessica and I understand that if women or men want to sell themselves for sex then they should be allowed to but if prostitution was legalized HIV/AIDS and other STD’s percentage would be increased. Since the United States have a high percentage already, why would we want to increase it more? In 2008, there had been 42,439 people who receive HIV/AIDS and 84 percent of it were woman.

We find that prostitutes are forcing to sell themselves to others which result to the issue of human trafficking where people are kidnapping young girls to become prostitutes which automatically sets them into sex slavery and would have to so sex labor. Human trafficking also involves Auctioning and Buying prostitutes all around the world. We do not believe that any of these young girls would want to go through all these procedures or even become a prostitute, but they would have to anyways or they would receive disciplines. Because of prostitutes happening, there had been 58 million industry that are for human trafficking.

There is a choice for the buyers to have sex risking of STD’s. However, the buyers would trust that the prostitute that they had sex with would have no HIV/AIDS because they believe that prostitutes would go to the doctor every 2 weeks to check up if the prostitutes have been infected or not. There will still be a high percentage that the buyers would receive HIV/AIDS. Since doctors only “assume” that prostitutes would alert buyers or anyone else that they have an STD. Many prostitutes would hide their problem because they need to be a prostitute to earn money to support their family or themselves.
-Our opening statement