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Date: November 12th, 2014 7:50 PM Author: appetizing silver whorehouse Save for a few counties in Nevada, prostitution is criminalized in every state and locality across the country. As a result, sex workers are pushed onto the street, leaving too many at the whims of pimps and dangerous johns without access to police protection and labor representation. If only the practice was brought indoors, sex workers could have more freedom to perform on their own terms in a safe, legal environment like I do.
This is not just theory, but hard fact. Barbara G. Brents of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studied the Silver State's legal brothels for more than 15 years and found that "employees report that they feel safe, are free to come and go and are bound only by their contract." In fact, 84 percent of the brothel workers her team surveyed said their job "felt safe," and no evidence of trafficking could be found.
Legal prostitution wouldn't simply result in greater safety, but improved health as well. While it's not well-known, Rhode Island unintentionally legalized prostitution in 1980 as the result of a legal loophole. Between the time a criminal case brought the loophole to public attention in 2003 and when it was recriminalized in 2009, gonorrhea infection among women plummeted by 39 percent, according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Similarly, reports of rape declined by 31 per cent.
Prostitution opponents love to point to the so-called "Swedish model" as a halfway measure of dealing with sex work by criminalizing the demand (clients) while decriminalizing the supply (sex workers). However, this approach only punishes decent clients patronizing sex workers in an honest way. Clients are not just the creepy old men that prostitution opponents make them out to be. Most have a story that explains why they seek companionship. Perhaps they've watched their partner's sex drive wane after years of relationship. Perhaps they're physically impaired, socially awkward or physically unattractive and have trouble finding a body to hold and satisfy humans' most natural and intimate desires. Or, perhaps they simply enjoy indulging their fantasies in a safe environment. Every client and sex worker has a story to tell, and the current regime of criminalization over compassion only mutes their voices and pushes them to the fringes of society where danger may lurk.
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