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    Persuasive essay- eradication of prostitution

    Imagine this… you’re a sixteen year old girl, topped up on heroin and afraid to

    leave your room. You’re sitting waiting for one thing, a knock. The knock of a manor woman who has paid for you. Sadly this happens to many young girls around

    the world. Many young girls around the world are forced into prostitution through

    abuse and drugs. This needs to stop now.

    Prostitution is the world’s oldest trade. However, nowadays it isn’t always

     by choice. Some girls and women are forced into prostitution through abuse and

    drugs. Don’t you think it’s time that this type of abuse was eradicated?

    Personally, I don’t think anyone should be subject to abuse. Millions and millions

    of women and girls in the world are subject to abuse and drugging by their

     brothel keeper. Some girls as young as twelve are subject to abuse and are toppedup on cocaine or heroin to make them comply with what is wanted of them.

    In the world there are many places where prostitution is fully legal; there is

    a town in America which protects prostitutes if they pay a fine. The Netherlands

    has the ‘Red Light’ District where prostitutes gather and offer their services. The

    ‘Red Light’ District is fully legal. However, this doesn’t always stop abuse as an

    average prostitute in a brothel is beaten twelve times per year. This is of course

    different for prostitutes on the streets. Even in areas where prostitution is legal a

    prostitute is not safe from danger even murder. Two hundred and four prostitutes

    are killed on average per year in America. The number of prostitutes murdered in

    Glasgow sits steadily at about fifty murders per year , only in the red light district

    or the ‘drag’ as it is known.

    For many men and women prostitution is a way of life. It makes them

    money to survive. Now sadly a woman wearing a tight skirt and short top can

     barely walk about without being branded a prostitute or whore. The acts of

    prostitutes have degraded woman all over the world due to the way they are

    stereotypically portrayed. This affects all women of the world and it needs to stop.

    In total almost 10% of American males have paid for sex via a prostitute;

    that’s nearlyone hundred and fifty two hundred thousand men in America that

    have paid for sexual acts. Many of the encounters have taken place with women

     who may even not have known fully what was happening to them due to drugging.

    In 2004 over 5000 children worldwide were involved in prostitution unwillingly.

     These girls and boys should be in school, learning and living life but they are

    stuck in a brothel, scared and afraid of their next customer who has paid for

    them.

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    Most of the women and girls in prostitution have been raped but they can’t

    go to the police to prosecute customers as they are committing an illegal act

    through being a prostitute. On average a prostitute is raped anywhere from eight

    to ten times per year. Eradicating prostitution can fix this. If prostitution is

    eradicated women and girls who have been raped can then go on trial against the

    rapist with a fair court and finally put the abuser in jail. Surely this can helpabused girls and women begin to have a normal life again.

    Eradicating prostitution will also aid in lowering the number of STIs and

    STDs worldwide. Prostitutes are the main carriers of many of these infections and

    diseases. Chlamydia would be lowered to a fraction of what the rates are now as

    prostitutes are the main host. As chlamydia is passed on by sexual acts if

    prostitution stops the number of carriers will slowly decline over time to a small

    minority. The numbers of AIDs and HIV cases worldwide would reduce. As AIDs is

    fatal until a cure is found eradicating prostitution would lower these numbers to

    reduce the mortality rate of AIDs, thus saving one million two hundred thousand

    lives per year. Other STIs and STDs will also decline. Surely this is a defining

    factor on eradicating prostitution as it saves more lives than lost to these

    diseases.

    Many brothel owners see prostitution as easy income; people show up; pay

    for sex, leave. Sadly in many brothels the women and men in the brothels aren’t

    cared for; some are abused, others are drugged and some do it willingly. The

    police are constantly looking for brothels to raid and shut down as they are also

    areas of large drug dealing and crime as they are well hidden and can easily look

    like a normal house. Sadly sometimes police can be bribed to “turn the other way”

    from a brothel. This isn’t right. Police should mount a raid as soon as the location

    of a brothel is discovered and the brothel owners put on trial. If a brothel is raided

    and prostitutes who have been abused and drugged are found they should be set

    into rehabilitation programs to allow them to live a new life, safe from

    prostitution.

     A brothel keeper can have as many girls as the brothel can hold; sometimes

    for large brothels this can be up to one hundred girls and women, many of whom

    are scared and afraid of the brothel keeper. Brothel keepers, once owning a

    girl/woman, can do as they please to them to keep them working for them. A

     brothel keeper can hit, drug and blackmail women and girls into working for him.

    Once a brothel keeper owns a man/woman they are put on sale to whomever

    takes a liking to them. Some prostitutes are as young as seventeen when they

    enter the trade, some like Hayden choose it to leave the life he was living after a

    family trauma. Hayden became a prostitute and worked in a brothel, constantly

    under the control of his owner and barely allowed contact with the outside world,

    and when he did make contact with his loved ones he was punished for it. He

    hasn’t made contact with anyone since. Many who knew Hayden sadly consider

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    him to be dead as they haven’t heard from him. Some still believe he will return

    one day and continue his life with his parents.

     The eradication of prostitution also brings a financial upside. As brothels

    have many women, men and girls working there many can begin new lives. This

    means more people working and thus a higher employment rate as more jobs would become available as new businesses would be made and old industries

     brought back to life. More people working also means that there is more income

    and taxes would be more spread out among the working society.

    By eradicating prostitution overall the entire crime system takes a hit;

    fewer brothels, less abuse and rape, less drug dealing. Surely this is a suitable

    reason for police in the world to eradicate it completely? Personally I believe this

    to be a strong reason to eradicate prostitution completely and doing so would

    create a better world with less abuse and harm to women and girls who are forced

    into sexual acts.

    In conclusion, the eradication of prostitution would aid the entire world it

     would lead to the reduction of abuse and drugs and a lower STI and STD rate for

    the world. The police of the world should start taking action against brothels and

    prostitutes immediately to finally put an end to the abuse some of these women

    and girls go through. I believe the world should begin to take action immediately

    and help those who are stuck in a world of abuse and drugs to regain life again.

    Isn’t this the way the world should work?

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