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To give an opinion, of course you must first have a balanced understanding of the issue on which you give your opinion. This having been said, I did research on why so very many people are against prostitution. According to this article, human trafficking, or more commonly know as forced prostitution, is the most ever-present "evil" in the twenty-first century. Between 15000 and 18000 people are trafficked to the USA every year for the purpose of labor. When immigrants enter this country, especially illegal ones, it is very hard for them to find decent work. Often times, they turn to prostitution because they have no other option. But to me, these are two different issues; The former, is in my opinion, illegal and unacceptable, being forced into labor, especially of a sexual type, is horrible. However, the second one is fine in my book; if an alien comes to this country, and does not try to become a citizen, and she ends up turning to prostitution, fine. No one "forced" them, they're here illegally, and if life as a prostitute is so horrible, then they shouldn't live here anyway.
MIAMI HERALD
Though that article gave some facts about prostitution, it still didn't clearly state what true "evils" lie in it. This is where i would have posted the other side of the view. I have searched at least twenty different sites, searching for descriptions of why legal and voluntary prostitution is corrupting and destroying America. I found none. However, I found many accounts of the horrors of forced prostitution. One survivor says "They came to this country seeking better lives for themselves and their families. Instead, they found sexual enslavement, their bodies sold to a different man every 15 minutes, often for 12 hours a day, in sex houses that were little more than rundown trailers with partitions separating one mattress from another. Beatings, forced abortions and armed guards were routine parts of brothel life." This is grotesque and disheartening to read about; stories of humanity at its worst. But Prostitution is NOT humanity at its worst; human trafficking is. In this article a girl, who snuck into America, with the help of an illegal organization that specializes in this, had hoped to make a better life for herself. Instead she ends up a prostitute. Now; though this story and the one stated in the previous paragraph start and end the same, it's the middle that makes one ok in my mind, and the other an abomination. In the previous paragraph, the girl comes here, tries, fails and ends up a prostitute, but in the second one, the girl never had a chance. As soon as she arrived here, the very organization that smuggled her here, immediately FORCED her into prostitution, with threats against her family. This is where the line lies, as to the difference between prostitution, and the image that human trafficking has made prostitution out to be.
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