This House Believes that Prostitution should be

legalized

Background Reading

Prostitution is the practice of engaging in relatively indiscriminate sexual activity with

someone who is not a spouse or a friend, in exchange for immediate payment in money
or other valuables. Prostitutes may be female or male or transgender and prostitution
may entail heterosexual or homosexual activity
late 19th century a variety of changes in Western societies revived efforts to suppress
prostitution. With the rise of feminism, many came to regard male libertinism as a threat
to womens status and physical health. Anti-prostitution campaigns flourished from year
1860s, often in association with temperance and woman suffrage movements.
International cooperation to end the traffic in women for the purpose of prostitution
began in 1899.
In 1921 the League of Nations established the Committee on the Traffic in Women and
Children, and in 1949 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a convention for
the suppression of prostitution.
This is more than a semantic issue. Since George W. Bushs administration, the U.S.
government has required that international organizations receiving funding for efforts to
combat trafficking and HIV/AIDS must not promote, support, or advocate the
legalization or practice of prostitution. In an October 2013 call for project proposals, the
State Department reiterated, The U.S. Government is opposed to prostitution and
related activities, which are inherently harmful and dehumanizing, and contribute to the
phenomenon of trafficking in persons (Ahmed, 2014).
In the Philippines as filed by a data presented by the Philippine Commission on Women,
in relation to the Anti-Prostitution Bill filed in the 2012, there are around 400,000 to
500,000 prostituted persons in the Philippines.

In that sense, Article II, Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution provides that the
State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human
rights. In addition, Article XIII, Section 1 states that the Congress shall give highest
priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the rights of all people
to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove
cultural inequities by equitable diffusing wealth and political power for the common
good.
Leader of the Opposition-responds directly to the case of the government
by giving a direct clash, and advances arguments. May challenge the
motion if the definition is challengeable;
Only a tiny percentage all women in prostitution are there because they
choose it. For most, prostitution is not a freely-made choice because the
conditions that would permit genuine choice are not present: physical
safety, equal power with buyers, and real alternatives.

The few who do choose prostitution are privileged by class or race or

education. They usually have options for escape. Most women in
prostitution do not have viable alternatives. They are coerced into
prostitution by sex inequality, race/ethnic inequality, and economic
inequality.

Here are examples of these invisible coercions:

More than 90 per cent of those in it tell us that they want escape from
prostitution.
* The woman in India who worked in an office where she concluded that
she might as well prostitute and be paid more for the sexual harassment
and abuse that was expected of her anyway in order to keep her job.
That's not a choice.

* The teen in California who said that in her neighborhood boys grew up to
be pimps and drug dealers and girls grew up to be hos. She was the third
generation of prostituted women in her family. Prostitution more severely
harms indigenous and ethnically marginalised women because of their
lack of alternatives. That's not a choice.

* A woman in Zambia who said that five blowjobs would pay for a bag of
cornmeal so she could feed her children. That's not a choice.

* The First Nations survivor of prostitution in Vancouver who said, "We

want real jobs, not blowjobs," See here for the rest of her 2009 speech
and other writings by survivors who have gotten out and who are
supporting sisters to also escape.
* The young woman sold by her parents at 16 into a Nevada legal brothel.
Ten years later, she took six psychiatric drugs that tranquilised her so she
could make it through the day selling sex. That's not a choice.

There is no evidence for the theory that legalisation somehow how is

never specified decreases the harm of prostitution.

In fact, legalisation increases trafficking, increases prostitution of

children, and increases sex buyers' demands for cheaper or "unrestricted"
sex acts (Sullivan, 2007, "Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with
Legalized Prostitution"). Whether prostitution is legal or illegal, research
shows that the poorer she is, and the longer she's been in prostitution,
the more likely she is to experience violence. The emotional consequences
of prostitution are the same whether prostitution is legal or illegal, and
whether it happens in a brothel, a strip club, a massage parlour, or on the
street.

The intimate relationship between prostitution and trafficking is

highlighted when buyers are criminalized. Sweden now has the fewest
trafficked women in the EU. The law interferes with the international
business of pimping and the practice of buying sex.

While there was initial resistance to the Swedish law, now more than 70
per cent of the public supports it. Women exiting prostitution use state-
provided exit services. Not surprisingly, "those who have extricated
themselves from prostitution take a positive view of criminalisation, while
those who are still exploited in prostitution are critical of the ban."

Prostitution should not be legalised because it can't be fixed, only

abolished. More than 90 per cent of those in it tell us that they want
escape from prostitution. In order to escape they need housing,
education, jobs that provide a sustainable income, health care and
emotional support. We should all be working on providing women with
alternatives to prostitution.
FLOW OF ARGUMENTS
Leader of the Opposition
(Respond to the definition and set up of the motion)
(REBUTTALS)
1. It is AN ORGANIZED CRIME WHERE PROSTITUTES ARE USED IN
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE
2. Burden of the State
3. Dehumanizing prostitutes

Deputy Leader of the Opposition- refutes the

case of the Leader , reestablishes the case of the opposition, and
advances an argument;
(REBUTTALS)
1. Very risky to the prostitutes
2. Introduce sex to very early age
3. Destroy the basic unit of the society, as you sid that it is a
personal matter, yet spouses of theses people could possibly
cought up such activities

Opposition whip-makes an issues-based rebuttal of the

government's and summarizes the case of the opposition
(SUMMARIZE THE OPPOSITIONS Arguments and Rebutt)
 Prostitution will happen anyway but legalizatiom will help stem the
abuses. Using the same logic, slavery should be legalized so
underground slaves can be given some human rights.
Further the legalization of abortion has shown thar it lead to a radical
increase. Prostitution will then be considered as a form of living of
some women, how do we form and expect them as nurturers and
spouses with that kind of job?

REPLY SPEECH (YOURS TRULY)

Pro-
Increase tax revenues
Many also believe that criminalizing the industry only brings discrimination
and poor working conditions for sex providers and purchasers.
Current laws do not stop prostitutes from selling sex, but seems only to make
them more prone to violent acts while working.
Many also think that if women could legally participate on their own free will,
the likelihood of underage prostitution and sex slaves would reduce
Most of the people who oppose prostitution do so on religious or moral
grounds. It should not be a crime simply because it offends some people.
Right to occupation-Like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs banning prostitution
doesn't stop people from seeing prostitutes. Legalized prostitution means we
can require condoms, test for STDs, and we can guarantee the right of sex
workers to form unions and go on strike (as opposed to suffering under a
controlling pimp).

Con-
 Prostitution is very risky to women that no compromise would
satisfy the scemario. Violence, diseases, unwanted
pregnancies and unsafe abortions will most likely to happen
because as stated a while ago, these are matter of two
individuals
Many also believe that since most sex workers are female, the practice
is demeaning to women and enhances the changes of rape and
violence. Some go so far as defining prostitution as a type of rape,
since it turns a woman into an object for a man's use. Women are used
as a property of men. Others state that prostitution increases the
involvement of sexual predators and the use of minors as sex slaves.
Prostitution is inherently degrading and dangerous, it must be
eliminated. Sex work is a dangerous phenomenon that routinely
violates womens rights and perpetuates their subordination to men.
There is hardly a distinction drawn between sex work and human
trafficking, which involves controlling someone through threats or
violence with the express purpose of exploitation. This conflation
leaves no room for sex workers who make decisions for themselves;
they are all just victims.
Violation to right to privacy because they impose penal sanctions for
the private sexual conduct of consenting adults
The argument for legalizatiom goes something like this:

Pro Con
VICTIMLESS CRIME
Prostitution is a Prostitution
harmless act, it creates a
should not, by setting
definition, be whereby
considered a
crimes against
crime. For it
involves two
men, women,
consenting and children
adults. become a
commercial
enterpise.
When a
prostitue is
forced
sadomony or
sexual
demands, as
 employment it
becomes
exploitation.
For it is base
from the
prostitutes
compliance not
consent.
FREE CHOICE
For some it is The
better to work as International
a prostitute Labour
Organization
that most
womenchoose
prostitution for
economic
reasoms

MORALITY
Those who support Although it is
legalization also one of the
believe that there longest
is nothing
profession,
immoral about
using your
sex, and since it
is freely intimate parts
dispensed, there as for
is no harm in commercial will
charging for it. never be good.

Human Trafficking
Legalization is
Women who work never an
in the sex answer to
industry in
Exploitation , in
countries where
fact those
it is legal make a
decent living countries who
and, I believe, legalized
suffer much less prostitution
abuse since suffered most
there are no on the cases of
pimps or other human
intermediaries trafficking
 who derive their
living from them.
germany and
amsterdam, who
legalized sex,
their very main
problem is to how
to detect forced
prostitutes and
under-aged ones.
All of these are
not easy to
combat.

PROSTITUTION AND
VIOLENCE
It is not
Protect the
possible to
prostitutes from
protect
greater abuse
someome
from the
authority and whose source
patrons of income
exposes them
to the
likelihood of
being raped on
average once a
week
HIV AND AIDS They also believe
PREVENTION that legalizing
prostitution would
Many believe that
increase the
criminalizing
spread of
prostitution only
disease, stating
exacerbates the
spread of that it takes
diseases, and if several weeks to
the practice were get the results
legal, it would from STD tests
encourage cleaner allowing an
working conditions infected
and better STD prostitute to
testing for continue infecting
prostitutes. her clients. Since
we can see
people using
protections
during the
intercourse.
A prostitute,
infected by std,
will be negative
for about 12
weeks1