In a recent survey the number of Americans who think the prostitution should be legalized and regulated by the government to reduce the spread of AIDS was 40 percent. The number of men who had admitted to have soliciting prostitutes at one point of time or another was 17 percent. And the estimated total expenditure on prostitutes per day in the United States is 40 million dollars.

Prostitution is known as the world's oldest trade, which can be seen in the history of prostitution. In the Middle Ages, theologian Thomas Aquinas likened prostitution to a sewer system - despicable but necessary. In the early nineteenth century Napoleon, beli

Legalization of prostitution would dramatically reduce the number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases (Ulch). HIV infection rates tend to be huge among the nation's streetwalkers. In Newark, New Jersey, 57 percent of prostitutes were found to be HIV-positive, in New York City, 35 percent of prostitutes were HIV positive, and in Washington, D.C., almost half of all streetwalkers were found to be HIV positive (Prostitutes' Education Network). The women who work in Nevada's brothels get regular monthly checkups as well as AIDS tests (Prostitutes' Education Network). George Flint, director of the Nevada Brothel Association, points with pride to the 20,000 monthly AIDS tests that have been performed on legal prostitutes since 1986, with HIV only showing up among job applicants. Not a single case of AIDS has turned up in 1991 in a survey of 7,000 tests on 246 legal prostitutes in Nevada from 1982 to 1989. By contrast 700 illegal prostitutes arrested in 1990 for soliciting in !

illion back into counties with legalized prostitution (Ulch).

In 1973 the case Roe vs. Wade established certain legal precedents concerning a woman's body, the court found that, "A woman has a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist in the Constitution and that it is founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action. This right of privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman's body and her own decision of whether or not to terminate pregnancy (Bell)." Although Roe vs. Wade dealt with abortion it also stated that a women's body is her own property, therefore under the Constitution itself she has the right to do whatever she wants with her body, which should include the right to prostitute it out to people.

Nevada, 10 percent tested positive for HIV (Clark 510). In Nevada brothels condom usage is mandatory, even for oral sex, by law of the State of Nevada. Lip-to-lip kissing and anal intercourse are prohibited also; this decision was made by the brothels themselves (Clark 517). Durex condoms actually did a full year study on the durability of condoms through them being tested in the legal brothels. So, these establishments can actually be used as a testing ground for studies on condoms and various other kinds of contraceptives.

History has show time and time again that while prostitution can be controlled, it cannot be eliminated. Prostitution is here to stay, like it or not it is time to make the best of it (Leone and O' Neill). What can society realistically do? As long as there are men out there who look for the thrill or high that they may achieve through prostitution we will never be able to totally eradicate it. It is about time for all of us to put out dreams of the perfect world away and realize that prostitution is out there and it is about time that others profit from it. The only safe and reliable way to get anything positive out of prostitution we must set up legal brothels throughout the country which would help in eliminating the illegal street workers and "call girls." A comedian once asked why it is illegal to sell sex, but it is ok to give it away for free (Prostitutes' Education Network).

Prostitution is defined as when a person engages, offers, or agrees to engage in sexual contact with another person in return for something of value to be received by the person or by a th

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