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Professor Todd Myers International Relations 10 May 2018 What factors influence the differences among nations in support and in opposition for legalizing sex work? Abstract In most countries, prostitution or sex work, which is defined as “the practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment” [1] is criminalized. This study examines the factors responsible for why sex work is legalized in some nations, but remains restricted in others. The reason for this divide can be explained by a variety of factors. Specifically, we focus on health issues and the research entities like the World Health Organization (WHO) have conducted research regarding the prevention of HIV/AIDs as the primary incentive towards legalization …show more content…

[1] Due to the nature of the profession, sex workers are considered in most nations to be immoral and should therefore be excluded from proper healthcare, education, and basic human rights.[4] Police have been among the most prominent to harass prostitutes, including humiliating them with vulgar language and treatment particularly targeting transgender workers [13]. Legislation against sex work exclude workers from health systems that provide condoms and sexual examinations which can prevent the spread of HIV and other STD …show more content…

Sex workers are among the most susceptible to murder, and have been particularly targeted by serial killers in “Canada, the US, Iran, Namibia, and the UK [13].” Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) released a study that found in 11 nations, over 200 workers had dealt with sexual violence[2] “I went to the house of a man. He punched me two times in the jaw. I didn’t tell the police. I don’t want it on my records,” one sex worker reported [12]. Sex workers face incidents of rape, extortion, kidnapping, and torture. Sex workers are discouraged from reporting these incidents to the police, as in some cases they too partake in the abuse. In 2007, 0 percent of the sex workers of Macedonia felt they could report assaults to the police when in the same year 82.4 percent of the sex workers claimed they were assaulted by the police. [13] Although there is substantial evidence conveying how decriminalization leads to better health and a decrease in abuse, research also points to the negative aspects of the profession as it relates to child trafficking and ethical

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Charlie Bulman’s article “Decriminalize Sex Work” discusses the Amnesty International’s policy to decriminalize prostitution. He uses evidence from sex workers’ life experiences, studies from New Zealand and Rhode Island decriminalization of sex work, and a document from sex workers’ advocacy organizations to support his argument that sex work should be legalized. The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Worker in Europe and other countries drafted a letter campaigning to promote the protection of their rights and from violence and discrimination. The evidence from the life experience of sex workers prove to be filled with exploitation and substance abuse due to their vulnerability from the lack of police protection and regulation.

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In the decades following this case, many changes to legislation have been made with the welfare of sex workers being seen as more important and more emphasis is put on ensuring they are safe (Wattis, 2015). LESSONS

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It is really perturbing that when suddenly when driving into a certain neighborhood, or street, and in a specific time of night, you see various women slowly starting to appear walking in the night. While children wonder why those women are out so late, and parents try unsuccessfully to distract them from the situation, no one truly dares to change anything. Most just simple choose to look away, not aware of the horrors these people face. The sole idea of one’s own family members in this industry, would make anyone’s skin crawl. Sex trafficking has stained society’s history, present, and sadly, it’s future.

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Sex Trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. It is one of the biggest lies in society (Farley et., 2014). The Vanderbilt Law Review indicates that the majority of prostitutes do not enter the prostitution lifestyle on their own free will choice, but instead becomes a prostitute due to a variety of vulnerabilities that both pimps and traffickers exploit. This explains why young women get blindsided and think they are becoming a prostitute when in reality they are a sex trafficking victim (Elrod 2015). When the United States made prostitution illegal, it did not change the mentality of the johns.

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Prostitution is a widely recognized topic, anyone and anywhere can get involved into this line of work with just one thing, themselves. Do the men, women and children really have a choice whether or not they want to use their bodies to earn a living? Or are they forced by outside influences that make them have no other choice. Preliminary research covered numerous topics about prostitution; When the victims started and why they started was not uncovered by these findings. There have not been a sufficient interviews with these subjects to

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The infectious disease of prostitution that has poisoned the population of sex workers can only be alleviated through the criminalization of its nature. The idea that prostitution is merely the exchange of sexual services for money is what buries the reality of sexual violence deep into the ground. Often, sex workers will be coerced to surrender their power to the hands of their client. In Canada, sex workers are stalked as prey by the treacherous monster of sexual abuse. They are enslaved into a sexual commodity and are stripped of their basic human rights.

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Although there have always been reformist efforts and movements concerning prostitution, the prostitutes' rights movement, the difference between the modern prostitutes' movement and previous efforts is that the current movement has been defined in a large part by prostitutes themselves. Prostitute activists have defined prostitutes' legal status in specific ways since the beginning of the prostitutes' rights movement. The current movement includes recognition of the rights of prostitutes to independence and self-regulation. Most societies that allow prostitution do so by giving the state control over the lives and businesses of those who work as prostitutes. Legalization often includes special taxes for prostitutes, restricting prostitutes to working in whorehouses or in certain zones, licenses, registration of prostitutes and government records of individual prostitutes, and health checks, which often means punishment-based isolation to protect from spreading disease...

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Many of them have only attended school for one year or have graduated college and are unable to find employment (41). The economy does not supply adequate learning facilities or a stable environment for expecting women, single mothers, or abandoned children and pushes them to the sex industry in order to earn money and protection. Younger woman tend to travel abroad in the sex industry in the hopes of a better life in a different country. When the victims are asked why they are reluctant to leave the sex industry they answer with “the wish to survive”, “to be independent from their families”, or the need “to help the family” (41). With many children being born into poverty everyday, prostitution is viewed more as a positive lifestyle for all rather than something detrimental to their lives, it becomes more widely accepted.

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