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Prostitution: To Legalize Or Not

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 15:31
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State Government

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Mark Lagon
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2008
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This week I participated in a conference "Overlaps of Prostitution, Migration, and Human Trafficking" in Berne, Switzerland which brought together European government experts from Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain to discuss a very hot topic: the relationship between prostitution and human trafficking.

The United States Government believes that prostitution fuels sex trafficking based on solid empirical evidence. It estimates that approximately 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked each year across international borders. (This is not to mention millions more who are trafficking victims who never cross borders.) Two-thirds of these victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation, making trafficking for prostitution the single biggest category of transnational human trafficking.
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I don't think that

Submitted by lacey2008 on Tue, 03/02/2009 - 21:15.
I don't think that prostitution should be legal. I think it spreads diseases, causes crime, and is abuse against women. I understand that certain escort agencies in london are there to help women who need money to support their families. I still don't think it is right. I know it is unrealistic to live off of minimum wage, but there are other ways. I just wish women would try to see that there are other ways besides drug dealing and prostitution.