At the second tier are women who work at established locations such as strip clubs, sex juice bars, brothels and massage parlors, where erotic services are also included following or during, what is an often a therapeutic massage. The third and lowest tier of prostitutes are the streetwalkers who roam certain areas, are picked up by customers and the sex acts are performed in motels that cater to this service, or cars or in back alleys. For each encounter, the prostitutes who belong to this third tier often charge only a few tens of dollars for their services. These lower tiers also include drug addicts who perform these acts in drug dens or at truck stops catering to long haul truck drivers.
Legalization of Prostitution
The term legalization can be defined in different ways. (PENet, 2008) That depends upon what each person's criteria for legalization involves. One important consideration is what a prostitute feels legalization should entail. The simplest way to look at this would be to make prostitution legal without any restrictions from law enforcement. But does that mean that a brothel could be opened up in a mall. Certainly societal perceptions about prostitution have to be taken into account. It would be unseemly to make prostitution so unrestricted as to have prostitute parading themselves in immodest attire on a busy street in the office district in a city downtown in the middle of the day. Even without such regulations, most cities, even where prostitution was criminalized had red light districts, which was understood by all to house prostitutes. Historically, the term red light arose because prostitutes would put a red lantern outside their houses to inform customers of the availability of sexual favors.
Legalization and regulation for prostitution go hand in hand. While prostitution is decriminalized, that is one cannot be arrested or charged for offering services or pandering to them, these are heavily regulated. This means that the location of brothels or streetwalking is permitted in only special restricted zones, often on the outskirts of cities. Prostitutes have to pay taxes just like any other businesses. Law enforcement is used not to make arrest but to enforce these regulations. The prostitutes have to submit to health checks on a regular basis for sexually transmitted disease and for general health. If a disease is found, then that prostitute would have to be quarantined until the disease has been cured; or if the disease is incurable then the sex worker would be taken out of commission. As a safety measure, prostitutes would have the sex acts also regulated. For example, condoms would have to be worn even if both parties associated with the transaction would not want them. Ensuring that all the regulatory conditions have been met, poses another danger. And this does not involve non-compliance by individual workers or their customers to skirt the regulations. The issue is that even the regulatory elements mentioned earlier in this paragraph will involve the creation of a whole bureaucracy of health professionals, social workers, counselors, law enforcements. How does one pay for this? By taxation, of course. And how is the income to be procured for this social engineering experiment? If taxing the sex workers would result in insufficient funds, then burden of this would have to be borne citizenry who do not contribute to or gain from these regulations. While this essay will argue for legalization, the notion of replacing the state's power through criminalization would be replaced by a state's power to regulate, both of which would be equally harmful and not solve the problem that legalization seeks to bring.
With regulation comes a whole list of issues that in large part represent more of a problem than consider it criminal. Prostitutes and organizations for prostitutes, when asked about the issue took the libertarian approach. They believed that as long as the criminalization of prostitution was removed, they would have a way of self-regulating their profession without any undue influence. Thus the best argument can be made for legalization as it strictly relates to decriminalization and without any further interferences. This is a libertarian-conservative approach, which espouses the power given in the hands of the individual, who its proponents believe will through a combination of the interest of self-preservation and economic, market forces will do a much better job or regulating and even policing itself. As the conservative commentator and humorist P.J. O'Rourke said that, paraphrased here, that democracy was the freedom to do as one damn well pleased except that one had to be aware of (and be ready to face) the consequences. (O'Rourke, 2008)
In terms of the freedom of prostitution from fear of criminalization and regulation, one has to be aware that prostitutes come from all walks of life and carry the burdens of all manner of lifestyles. For them prostitution might be a last recourse as a way to get finances to earn a living, feed a drug habit. They might be prostitutes because of a lack of self-worth,...
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