Prostitution

In the United States, prostitution is illegal in every state except for thirteen counties in Nevada, where ôsix prohibit it in unincorporated areas and seven permit it throughout the countyö (Abramson et al. 112). Despite the millions of dollars spent enforcing anti-prostitution law in the U.S., the commercial sex trade continues to thrive in every state in the nation. The criminalization of prostitution results in a number of deleterious effects on society, from higher rates of crime and STD transmission to diverting law enforcement resources away from more serious crimes like rape, robbery, and homicide.

Because it is typically viewed as a ôvictimlessö crime, occurring between two consenti

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ffering of value satisfies the third clause in Miller, demonstrating prostitution from an objective viewpoint is not obscene. The legal enforcement of anti-prostitution statutes stems primarily from a trend in U.S. society wherein legal enforcement of morality is occurring. Harcourt (109) maintains that justification of anti-prostitution statutes represents ôthe regulation or prohibition of activities that have traditionally been associated with moral offense like prostitution and pornography.ö However, prostitution is not a harmful offense between two consenting individuals who choose to engage in a sex-for-trade arrangement. From a philosophical standpoint, John Stuart Mill (121) maintained in On Liberty that ôSociety has no business, as society, to decide anything to be wrong which concerns only the individual.ö From both of these perspectives, the criminalization of prostitution is a violation of constitutional law, since it is a victimless act engaged in willfully by consenting adults. The U.S. constitution also guarantees individuals the right to liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. From this perspective, we see that the criminalization of prostitution also violates constitutional freedoms and law. The prost
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