I disagree that prostitution is immoral.

It is a practice that has occurred throughout human history it is

"history's oldest profession". Prostitution is only immoral when women are being exploited against their
will. It would be better for society and for women if prostitution was simply accepted as a natural part of
humanity. Prostitutes then would not have to face scorn and shame for what they do and would be
protected under the law.

+Not at all.
 

Prostitution is not immoral and should be legalized. Prostitution is known as one of the oldest professions.
It's simply supply and demand. If we legalized prostitution then we could tax it and regulate it so it is
brought into the light. I do not think that is is a immoral profession.

Prostitution is both a sexual and an economic activity that can be organised in

very different ways, and people from all walks of life can be found in the sex
industry.

Suppressing prostitution completely could seem a viable way to ensure that nobody is
forced into it, but this approach also impacts on those who choose to sell sexual
services. There is also another consequence: anti-prostitution laws, in effect, interfere in
private arrangements between consenting adults. Allowing politicians to establish what
people can and cannot do with their own bodies is to some a major breach of personal
freedom.

Freedom is a hot topic in the prostitution debate: the personal freedom of those who
want to be in the industry; the freedom of the buyer to be able to get sex on demand;
the lack of freedom of the trafficked and exploited and of those who don't have any
other alternatives. All this makes prostitution extremely complicated to address in law.

Questions about criminalisation, decriminalisation, and regulation of prostitution are

widely debated. Prostitution, however, is also affected by other areas of the law, for
example welfare and immigration laws, which constrain the alternatives open to those
who can't get other paid work.

Countries have found very different responses to the prostitution question, often causing
a domino effect on the nations around them, such as sex tourism to places with a more
permissive approach to the industry.
Argument B: Sex means different things to different people, and it is oppressive for governments or
religious leaders to tell us who we should and shouldn’t have sex with.

Argument B: If prostitution was treated as a job like any other, there would be nothing to protect the
most disadvantaged in our society from having to sell sex to survive.
As long as there is no physical harm or exploitation, people should be left free to do what they
want without moral or other judgements.

At its best it's amoral; at its worst immoral, but never moral. It's immorality depends completely upon
the harms that result from it.
 

There are a number of variables which can make any given instance of prostitution more or less immoral.
Given that from the prostitute's perspective the motive is financial, the degree to which prostitution is a
choice depends on how pressing the financial need underlying that choice. A trafficked sex worker
brought out of poverty into a new country where they have no option but to sell themselves or starve can
hardly be said to be doing so out of choice. 

Further on up the scale, imagine a single mother, earning enough through part-time work to survive, but
hardly enough to prosper. Perhaps she may turn to prostitution in order to enhance her child's and her
own quality of life. While it's lamentable that the economic and social order may have failed to prevent
such situations occurring in the first place, such an individual is not prostituting herself as a means of
survival but as an attempt to enhance her quality of life. While not ideal, it does seem to resemble choice
somewhat more, and begins to seem less immoral.

Towards the other end of the spectrum one can conceive of a university student with no pressing needs
wanting to afford luxuries and wipe off student debt. This latter example seems far more founded on free
choice, and it is hard to see what harm he/she is suffering by simply taking advantage of clients willing to
pay for his/her services (obviously assuming a safe environment is provided for the execution of the
work).

So while there are evidently some situations where harm is being committed I cannot say a blanket 'Yes,
prostitution is immoral', as I believe the degree to which any given instance of prostitution is immoral is
completely circumstantial. However I do highly suspect that the majority of prostitutes worldwide do not
operate within the 'moral' zone of this industry. 

This is only half the story however. It must also be considered whether it is immoral for the prostitute
'user' to be using the prostitute. To an extent this mirrors the sliding scale of morality described above. If
the user knows the prostitute is working as such out of choice and treats the prostitute with due courtesy
and respect, it is hard to see what harm is being done to the prostitute. 

I notice a lot of people in the 'Yes' camp arguing that it is immoral for husbands to cheat on their spouses
using prostitutes. I think this has deviated from the question being asked. That assertion only means that
'infidelity' or 'lying' is immoral, at least certainly where fidelity and mutual candor are agreed standards
between a monogamous couple. But the user's marital status is not material to the question of whether
prostitution in itself is immoral. 

The morality of prostitution depends upon the harms it causes, and where safety and free choice are
involved it is difficult to see where any deliberate harm is being produced.
However, some people freely and knowingly chose to be prostitutes.
In these cases, the coercion argument obviously fails.
f we lived a gender equal utopia then prostitution could be accepted in society. Until
there are more female business leaders and women make just as much in all other
forms of employment then it will not be acceptable.

Consent is what is gray in prostitution. The majority of prostitutes do not want to be

selling their bodies. Surveys have been done many times asking the question”do you
want to leave prostitution”. Majority said YES. You know what that means? It means
they hate the sexual contact they receive. Hated sexual contact = rape by consent. Not
to mention that the minority of prostitutes are not consenting at all. I would not call it
“rare”. Some countries have 100,000s of prostitutes that are all under the control of
men. Thailand. Their sick husbands, boyfriends, pimps, escort shop owners tell them if
you want to get money then “screw who ever I tell you to”. Otherwise, “I’ll make your life
hell”. That’s consent? No.

Some argue that legalizing prostitution would be society’s betrayal of women. They may say
it threatens the safety of young women, that it exploits those who financially have no choice
but to sell their bodies to make a living or that prostitution is inherently sexual harassment.
But many overlook the fact that the stigma, shame and criminalization that shrouds the sex
industry is the very reason that all of these assumptions are a problem. If prostitution were
to be legalized and normalized, it would make it exponentially more safe to be a prostitute,
help prostitutes actually make a living wage and make it possible to regulate the constant
sexual harassment that occurs in the industry.
It is true that prostitution is currently a very unsafe business: only 17.7% of brothel workers
report never having been affected by sexually transmitted diseases. This is mainly because
the industry is not regulated; prostitutes are not required to wear a condom and 78% say
that wearing one will make a customer more likely to pay less. But what many overlook is
that the only reason there are so few rules on what can and cannot happen during these
exchanges is that it is not protected by the law. Studies show that legalizing prostitution
could actually reduce HIV in sex workers by up to 46 percent. It would give the U.S. a
chance to control the industry and make sure that businesses follow a set of rules designed
to keep prostitutes safe from STIs and the violations that they face on a day to day basis. 
Legalizing prostitution is the first step towards fixing the overwhelming issue of sexual
harassment and assault in the industry. 1 in 5 of sexual assault reports filed in U.S.
emergency rooms came from sex workers and many studies have shown that the stigma
around their business only increases the violence against them. Prostitutes have been
known to be arrested after they report their own rape and so it is no wonder that many are
too afraid to come forward after their trauma. But decriminalizing sex work may help
prostitutes feel valued; as if the agonizing experience they have suffered is legitimate and
their pain is valid.
As we have seen time and again, the first step towards fixing our
culture problem around sexual violence is to talk about it. And the
first step towards solving this issue in the sex industry is to stop
making people feel as if they are fundamentally in the wrong
because someone else raped them.
The main reason why society wants to keep prostitution illegal is that they think it is an
unattractive, vulgar job to have. They believe that the very notion that the government could
have a hand in the sex industry inherently objectifies people. But the only reason that we see
prostitution as so horrendous and appalling is that the law tells us that we should think it is
immoral.
Women are already seen as objects. And that is entirely the
patriarchy’s fault, not the sex industry’s. It’s time to stop objectifying
these citizens and start constructing a society where it is not only
legal to be a prostitute, but socially acceptable.