First speaker

Solomon had favour with GOD and was, even still is noted as the wisest king throughout biblical history. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 kings 11;3), I repeat, 700 wives and 300 concubines allow me to rephrase, a man who had favour in GOD had 700 legal spouses and 300 women with whom he had sex in return for material reward. I Clinton Duncan rise as the first speaker in the affirmative of the legalization of prostitution, my task today is to posit the prerequisite definitions of our argument, as well as lay the foundation of the effects of the legalization of prostitution on health and economics in Guyana, my second speaker will address the pillars of the effects of legalization of prostitution on crime and security and the final speaker will address the issue of the legalization of prostitution and morality. Before proceeding, we need to define prostitution. Despite being known as the oldest profession, a workable definition has proven elusive. From a dictionary we learn that prostitution is the 'act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money'. But a prostitute cannot simply be a woman who sells her body, since 'that is done every day by women who become wives in order to gain a home and a livelihood I ask you opposition are gold diggers or dangles prostitutes?. However, promiscuity itself does not turn a woman into a prostitute. Although a vast majority of prostitutes are promiscuous, most people would agree that sleeping around does not amount to prostitution. Instead, we argue that prostitution is the act of rendering, from the clients point of view, non-reproductive sex against payment." FIRSTLY HEALTH - Prostitution is going to happen anyway. Given that the best efforts to end it have failed, does it not make more sense from a public-health standpoint to regulate it and minimize, as much as possible, the health consequences? Teela Sanders, DPhil, Senior Lecturer in
Sociology at the University of Leeds, in the May 2006 Social Science & Medicine article "Female Sex Workers As Health Educators With Men Who Buy Sex," wrote: "For too long there has been an assumption in the

literature that because sex workers have multiple sexual partners they are automatically a health risk rather than framing the possibility that their access to a hard to reach population of male clients could present a gateway for information transfer and behaviour change.... Priscilla
Alexander, Co-founder and Coordinator of the National Task Force on Prostitution, wrote in the Spring 1998 Journal of the American Medical Women's Association article "Sex Work And Health: A Question Of Safety In The Workplace" that:...Individuals arrested on prostitution charges often modify their work behavior in

an attempt to reduce their visibility to the police...[T]hey may agree to acts carrying higher risks if it means more money, in order to reduce the time on the street, and thus the likelihood of being arrested.... As a result, sex workers become more vulnerable to pressure to not use condoms, thereby increasing their risk of contracting STDs, including HIV. Police may confiscate condoms during street arrests, sometimes to use as evidence but often more as a form of harassment.... In off-street establishments, fear of arrest on felony charges can cause management to discourage the use of condoms, which could be used as evidence that the establishment is in the business of prostitution... "The opponents of compulsory health check-ups should bear in mind that in our country there are many categories of employees that are obliged to undergo medical check-ups at regular intervals which means they cannot work if their health conditions are not found to be sound. On

the contrary, it seems like in our country no one worries about the fact that HIV-positive prostitutes can go on working without anyone being able to stop them.
Priscilla Alexander, Co-founder of the National Task Force on Prostitution, in the 2001 Research for Sex Work article "Contextual Risk Versus Risk Behaviour," wrote:... [T]he health check-ups would have an educational

effect in that prostitutes could be more easily convinced to use condoms at all times, even when clients offer higher prices to have unprotected sex, and they would be induced to do so because they would be aware that if the regular check-ups determine that they are affected by a sexually-transmitted disease (not only HIV), they would have to stop working. SECONDLY ECONOMICS - "If history can serve as a guide, shame will not stop the profession. Because of that, the better solution would be to legalize prostitution as in parts of Nevada, the Netherlands and Europe - and tax the proceeds like any other business. ( The Baltimore Examiner wrote the Oct. 26, 2006 editorial "Legalize Prostitution For Sake of Women" that said) "Sex work is legitimate work and problems within the industry are not inherent in the work itself. It is vulnerability, not sex work, which creates victims. Sex workers should enjoy the same labour rights as other workers and the same human rights as other people. Sex workers can only gain the same rights as other workers when the debate is moved from a moral framework and placed in the framework of labour rights." (Wendy McElroy, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, wrote the Feb. 13, 2001 "'Solutions' to Prostitution" on Ifeminists.com that) "Prostitution is not merely an exchange of sexual favors; it is a financial exchange. At this point, individualist feminists rise to defend the free market as well as a woman's self-ownership. This is expressed by the question: 'Prostitution is a combination of sex and the free market. Which one are you against?' Feminists of all stripes should speak with one voice to demand the safety of these women by granting them the same protection as any other woman can expect. Only decriminalization can provide this. "I am not making a moral judgment here. I see prostitution as a reality of the modern world. The chances of eliminating it are practically nil. Under those circumstances it is better to keep it in check and under control by giving it a legal framework. This is not to say that I approve of brothels - but it seems to me that it would be better to have prostitution take place there - with medical check-ups and prostitutes paying taxes. It would be the lesser of two evils."
(Valerie Scott, Executive Director of Sex Professionals of Canada, was quoted in the Nov. 10, 2004 issue of The

is inherently dangerous about this business. Its the way were forced to work that makes it dangerous. If prostitution was decriminalized, like it is in Australia and South Wales, there would be fewer bad dates occurring and the escort agencies would be more likely to protect their workers.
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Compared with other jobs, sex work pays quite well for the amount of time you spend. Its a great job for students because you work on your own schedule." I opened with a little lesson in bible history of a wise king Solomon whom I repeat had 300 prostitutes and yet was in Gods favour, let us not make one of the biggest mistakes he made and posit to cut the baby in half and avoid the issue, let us not bury our heads in the sandmy grandmother always said those who cannot convince will aim to confusefriends, classmates, mr crieghtondo NOT be confusedthe answer is clearin a country where the presidents stance on copyright laws are trivial, ministers are being acquitted of cases where evidence is

obvious, in a country where members of parliament are affiliated with organizations of rights of sex workers (SASOD), it is time we started making first world decisions in third approaching 4th world country. Thankyou.