The legalization of prostitution would save tax payers money. The average cost, according to San Francisco police department, of an arrest, trial, and incarceration of a prostitute is 2,000 dollars. If prostitution was legal would eliminate this cost. Along with no longer having the cost of arresting people involved in prostitution, but the government would be able to tax the prostitutes income like it taxes everyone else. This would create millions of dollars that could, if need be, be used to regulate prostitution.

If prostitution was legal and regulated it would be safer for clients. COYOTE's (a organization lobbying for prostitution) has a plan to regulate prostitution where all prostitutes would have to have a license to work. This would be helpful because to be licensed they would have to go through a class to educate them on sexually transmitted diseases and be periodically checked for them. This would lower the already low statistic by the US Department of Health that s

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If prostitution was legal the fact from San Francisco prostitution task force that only 4% of prostitutes that are raped report it to the police would change for the better. Lets say that Sally is standing on a street corner and someone asks to join her for a ride. This is the only way she has ever known how to make money she goes along. Now lets say that after the "business transaction" is done the guy refuses to pay and beats her for insisting that he does. Sally bruised, and no richer than she was before, knows that she can not go to the police because she has been arrested before for prostitution and would be turned away or arrested again, so she doesn't go. Another rapist on the lose to do it again. If prostitution was legal they would not have to subject themselves to the risk of walking streets, and instead work in brothels or create their own businesses.

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