Opening Statement: "The National Runaway Safeline 60% percent of children reported missing as a result of running away exploited

by pimps and forced into prostitution. The legalization of such slavery makes this horrible reality even more dangerous for these kids. Sex is an emotional and physical decision that shouldnt be based on money. Prostitution has been shown to lead to crime and is a worldwide black market. Having sex with that many people is dangerous to the health of both parties. Birth Control only works 98% of the time, the chance of children and STDs is pretty high, more kids equals more welfare money having to be spent on said kids. What if your daughter or son wanted to be a prostitute? Would you want them to live such a dangerous lifestyle? Legalizing prostitution does not control it, it expands it. Rebuttal: Integrity: Prostitution violates the right to physical and moral integrity by the alienation of womens sexuality that is appropriated, debased and reduced to a commodity to be bought and sold. Degrading: It violates the prohibition of torture and of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment because clients acts and practices of sexual 'entertainment' and pornography are acts of power and violence over the female body. Health: Legalizing prostitution does not promote womens health. Health checks make no sense because monitoring prostituted women does not protect them from HIV/AIDS or STDs, since male clients can and do originally transmit disease to the women. Health: In one of CATWs studies, U.S women in prostitution interviewed reported that 47% of men expected sex without a condom, 73% men offered to pay more for sex without a condoms and 45% of women said they were abused if they insisted that men use condoms. Trafficking: It violates the right to liberty and security, and the prohibition of slavery, of forced labor and of trafficking in persons because millions of women and girls all over the world are held in sexual slavery to meet the demand of even more millions of male buyers of sex, and to generate profits for the capitalists of sex. The U.S Department of Justice estimates that there are 200,000 U.S citizens, mainly children and young women, who are at high risk of being trafficked through the U.S for sexual purposes. Degrading: By legalizing prostitution, you are agreeing to using women and girls as merchandise. Legalizing prostitution will give people an unsafe fall-back option and decreases the incentive for post-secondary education and any real employment opportunities. With prostitution comes a high risk of exposure to street crimes, as well as violence characterized by bodily harm, health hazards and mental trauma. Prostitution promotes unsafe sex, woman inequality and is overall and just immoral. Health: It violates the right to enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health because violence, disease, unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and AIDS stalk, presenting constant and grave risks for women and girls in prostitution, and militating against a healthy sense of and relationship with their own bodies. Choice: The ILO [International Labor Organization] report admits that most women 'choose' prostitution for economic reasons.

Discrimination: Prostitution is an extreme form of gender discrimination. Legalization of this violence to women restricts womens freedom and citizenship rights. If women are allowed to become a legitimate commodity, they are consigned to a second-class citizenship. Lifestyle: Approximately three-fourths of the women who are recruited and trafficked are unaware that they are destined for strip clubs, brothels, or the street, where they are sold to eager male buyers. Most of the women are seeking to escape poverty, violence and lack of opportunities, but once they are under control of pimps or traffickers, they are seasoned into prostitution by physical and sexual violence and economic coercion. STDs: We understand that if women or men want to sell themselves for sex they should be allowed to but if prostitution was legalized HIV/AIDS and other STDs percentage would be increased. Since the United States has a high percentage already, why would we want to increase it more? In 2008, there have been 42,439 people who have been infected with HIV/AIDS and 84 percent of it was women.

Statistics: 75% of women involved in prostitution started as children 74% of women cite poverty as the primary motivator for entering prostitution. Up to 70% of women in prostitution spend time in care, 45% report sexual abuse and 85% physical abuse within their families. Up to 95% of women in prostitution are problematic drug users, including around 78% heroin users and rising members of crack cocaine addicts. 68% of women in prostitution meet the criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the same range as torture victims and combat veterans undergoing treatment. A global study of prostitution found that 9 out of 10 women in prostitution would like to exit if they could.

Closing Statement: The average age of entry into prostitution is 13 or 14 years of age. Children learn very young that their body does not belong to them but to others with power and money. Arguments fir legalizing prostitution depend on the strength of two arguments: that prostitution is a choice for those in it and that harms of prostitution are decreased if it is legalized. There is little evid4ence that either of these arguments are true. It is important to know what it is and what is not. It is not a job like any other job. Whether or not it is legal, prostitution is extremely harmful for women. The opposition is basing their viewpoint on ideology and not the key points; its illegal for a reason and should stay that way