In medical perspective, legalisation of prostitution would allow a better coverage of health promotion program among prostitutes
The long run effect of this is that it would increase the number of female prostitutes and thereby reduce the human power of a nation in producing useful goods
Also if prostitution is legalised, time might come when males might not see any female to make their wife and this might lead to a decrease in the population of a country
Maybe you were right, but I'm actually concerned about the mortality rate and how it can affect the entire human population. Without legalisation, infectious disease (especially those which can't be treated e.g. HIV) will soon take over (as most people who were infected are not aware of their own positive status). Mandatory health screening can't be done and the morbidity rate might have been higher especially for STI. Even with the criminalisation of prostitution, human traffickers still made quite a lot of money from what they did.
The reason why people are getting themselves into prostitution was that they were poor; quite the majority of them are. As prostitution is not legal, they aren't required to pay any taxes and the price of their services were not monitored. If prostitution is legalised, I would say the amount of money potentially made will not be that high due to several factors mostly financial making it probably the most less desirable job couple it with an increased mortality rate. Do you still think the number of prostitutes will increase by then? I would say it depends on how good the law which would be imposed on such institution.
If you consider the long-term effect, which one is much cheaper? Having a wife or subscribing to prostitutes every single day? Even if prostitution were to be legalised, a significant portion of the human's population would still have a religious belief and ethical consideration. Legalising something doesn't necessarily equate to the right behaviour, sometimes, we legalised something in order to control the damage done by that particular thing.
I concur, thanks for your lucid explaination
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