LEGALIZATION RAISING THE STANDARDS OF PROSTITUTION
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Prostitution is the oldest profession around and unfortunately, to thousands of men, women, and yes, even children it has also become one of the most deadly. Because drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases and violence are on the rise among prostitutes, so is the nation-wide death rate. However, if prostitution became legal, the standards would rise and perhaps lower deaths.
Illegal prostitution is usually not the career choice these people would have made under normal circumstances. All too often, the prostitutes walking the streets are teenage runaways who end up working for a pimp or feel that selling their bodies is the only way to survive on the streets. Economic conditions bring men and women both into the world of prostitution because they feel it is a way they can support themselves and/or their families when everything else has seemed to fail. When these men, women, and children sell their bodies on the streets they often end up making nothing because the pimps take the majority of the money earned. That is, if they actually get the money from the customers, sometimes instead of being paid they get beat up. Rape and brutal attacks are very common in the illegal prostitution world
Another thing that is very common with illegal prostitution is sexually transmitted diseases. STD's are not only a great risk for the prostitute but also for their clients, since protection, is not used all the time as it should be to actually be effective...