Prostitution is a subject which sparks a lot of debate; after a series of murders in Ipswitch in 2006 where five women who were working as prostitutes were killed , people have been wondering whether it should actually be illegal. Selling things is legal, having sex is legal, so why shouldn’t selling sex be legal?
Maybe the social status of women who work as prostitutes is the reason for the publics lack of caring. These women are often drug addicts who sell sex to fund their habit. The public like to forget that they exist and rather than acknowledge that there is a demand for prostitutes and set up a brothel where they can work in relative safety they would rather they wander the streets.
The moral implications of prostitution are also a factor in its legality. Britain is mainly a Christian country and if selling sex was legalised it would be going against the Christian views of no sex outside of marriage.
Despite the arguments to legalise prostitution the government is looking to make it practically illegal. The new law states that a customer that pays for a prostitute who is being “controlled” by a pimp etc. they can face charges; although there is no way for the customer to tell whether the prostitute is being controlled or not. This makes it just a question of time until people who continually use prostitutes are caught with someone who is being “controlled.”
But it’s not just the act of selling sex that is called prostitution; in the book “The Catcher in The Rye” the protagonist Holden Caulfield says he feels his brother who is a screenplay writer is “prostituting” himself as he is doing it only for the money, although if this is the case a lot of people who work jobs they are impassionate about would also be regarded as prostitutes.
References
The Catcher In The Rye
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Suffolk Killings
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Q&A UK Prostitution Laws
Casciani, D. (2008). Q&A: UK Prostitution Laws. Available: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7736436.stm. Last accessed 24th February 2009.
Salinger, J.D. (1951). The Catcher In The Rye. United States: Little, Brown & Company.
I think that prostitution is the worsest thing what weman can do with her body - sell it, probably thats why nobody respect that weman, even if their financial situation is really difficult.
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