efforts at home and abroad to combat prostitution. PEPFAR is AmericaÆs $15 billion aid package under USAID that is designed to fight the spread of AIDS abroad (Prostitution 62). However, USAID, AmericaÆs foreign assistance agency, has required groups like DKT, a social-marketing organization that supplies condoms in the developing world to ôsign an æanti-prostitutionÆ pledge in order to receive fundsö (Prostitution 62). DKT has sued USAID, claiming that such a restriction amounts to coercion that violates another constitutional right, the First Amendment right guaranteeing free speech.
Many opponents of legalizing prostitution maintain that it is an obscene act. While many individuals may view prostitution as obscene, the legal test for obscenity involves the ôdistinguishing featureö of the ôlack of consensualityö (Abramson et al. 114). However, prostitution is an act in which both individuals choose to engage in sex consensually. Because of this, the sex-for-trade nature of the prostitution transaction reflect
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