Should Prostitution Be legalized?

Francine WilsonSeptember 29,2009

Mrs. Pugh

95% of prostitutes are drug abusers

*78% of prostitutes are heroin addicts• Prostitutes abuse drugs and alcohol to hide

their pains* Prostitutes are at great risk or HIV because of

the drugs they use and needles that they share

Slavery

• Women are being brought and sold as property

• Pimps take prostitutes away from others to have total control over them

• They are manipulated into believing anything that their pimps tell them

The emotional abuse that prostitutes face

• Pimps control prostitutes by inducing intense fear

• Due to stress and because of the emotional abuse, prostitutes are diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder

Prosti

tutes a

re also

physica

lly abuse

d and

beaten terri

bly

Prostitutes undergo a lot of physical abuse as well

Prostitutes report being beaten an average of fifty-eight times a year

A lot of prostitutes are beaten and even killed by their buyers

Prostitutes are raped, assaulted, and sometimes even murdered

Unwan

ted

preg

nanc

ies

• Prostitutes have to deal with unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions

• Prostitutes also have to go through the pain of not knowing who the father of their child is and it could be any man in the world

• Their children have to grow up without having a father in their lives

Prostitutes a

re at

great risk

for S

TD’s

and AIDS

Most prostitutes are attacked

More than any soldier in any

WAR

Disease and STD’s are a part of prostitution

• Diseases are being carried back home by the buyers and its being spread amongst the family

We need to stop prostitution

before it gets here because most

started as children wanting

to be loved

Emotional abuse can tear a persons self-esteem

And greatly impair Psychological development

Overtime

Emotional

abuse

brain

Was

hes th

e victi

m

MOST WERE

BEATEN BY

PARENTS AS A CHILD

Overtime dru

gs

And alcohol b

ecome

A comfort

Prostitutes

are made to

have sex

with millions

of men a day