Government oversight of prostitution would improve all outcomes
The legalisation of prostitution ensures Governments can regulate prostitution to reduce social ills.
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Context
The practice of legalisation can encompass all manner of laws to regulate prostitution, such as permitted locations and advertising laws. This means that each government can individually decide the parameters within which they will allow prostitution.
The Argument
This approach is taken in order to preserve the rights of sex workers, providing services like unionisation and police protection, while trying to decrease certain negative effects prostitution such as crime or the spread of sexually transmitted infections.[1] This means that sex workers will not be punished as long as they stay within the designated legal parameters as dictated by the government and that the government can, therefore, regulate and oversee prostitution, keeping sex workers safer.
Counter arguments
By overseeing its legalisation, the state is sanctioning prostitution and profiting off of it. This prioritises the consumer over the prostitute’s health and safety.[2] A
It is also not a given that the state will be able to dictate policies that will protect sex workers, listen to sex workers when producing policies, or indeed have sex worker’s best interests at heart. Sex workers may have to continue working under criminal conditions if they are unable to meet state requirements.
Premises
[P1] Regulation of prostitution is best left to the state.
Rejecting the premises
[Rejecting P1] The state does not necessarily know how best to protect sex workers.