Prostitution is slavery
Prostitution is selling one’s body for sexual relations. There is a desire from the United States government to see prostitution become legalized but this would truly be a detrimental act because prostitution is a form of slavery. Prostitution violates the fundamental human rights given to every citizen in America. The practice of sexually exploiting women should not be legalized because, prostitution promotes sexual inequality, prostitution is violent, and prostitution is interconnected to human trafficking.
Legalizing prostitution only plays on the idea of men having the power to buy and sell women at their leisure. Legalization in states would eventually dehumanize women due to them being available to be bought and sold by men like any other common good. This act then creates a gender hierarchy of which men are above women. Legalization also excludes sexually exploited women from laws which should protect citizens’ basic human rights. Monica O’Connor says, “Promoting the idea that some women must be available for sale to satisfy men’s sexual needs is to create a group of women
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There are many different theories among experts suggesting a series of brainwashing and control which is forcibly fed to women who are sexually sold. Most women who become prostitutes have a complicated history of sexual abuse as a child or were physically assaulted. Melissa Farley states, “Prostituted women are unrecognized victims of intimate partner violence by pimps and customers” (103). The violence that society uses against prostitutes only strengthens their thoughts worthlessness and their roles solely as prostitutes. Not only are prostitutes physically assaulted, they are scarred psychologically as well. The verbal abuse causes immediate psychological harm to the person acting as the recipient. Prostitutes eventually become the words the pimps and customers speak and do to