In reply to Andrew Kirby's blog on 'legalising prostitution', Wednesday February 18th 2009.
Jean Johnson a member of the 'Women's Institute' has been campaigning to legalise prostitution for some time and has travelled to compare other countries perception to ours. She raises issues as Andrew has regarding the safety aspects of this illegal sex trade. As well as being vulnerable to violence, sexually transmitted diseases and exploitation, workers in this service industry (some may disagree that it is a service industry..) are constantly being scorned. Who has the problem, society, the government or those who do not want to admit that prostitution exists? It isn't going to go away so why not deal with it, making it legal with make prostitution safe for all parties concerned...
(The Sunday Times, February 22nd 2009, report by Caroline Scott)
Jean Johnson a member of the 'Women's Institute' has been campaigning to legalise prostitution for some time and has travelled to compare other countries perception to ours. She raises issues as Andrew has regarding the safety aspects of this illegal sex trade. As well as being vulnerable to violence, sexually transmitted diseases and exploitation, workers in this service industry (some may disagree that it is a service industry..) are constantly being scorned. Who has the problem, society, the government or those who do not want to admit that prostitution exists? It isn't going to go away so why not deal with it, making it legal with make prostitution safe for all parties concerned...
(The Sunday Times, February 22nd 2009, report by Caroline Scott)
It seems that legalizing prostitution could be a sensible thing to do. Certainly it would reduce the unhealthy and dangerous aspects of prostitution. An article published in the BBC News Magazine reported that the number of men using prostitutes has doubled in the last ten years. It would be interesting to speculate if the numbers would increase even more if prostitution was legalized, or whether numbers would drop by removing the furtive and illegal elements.
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