Class Debate: Rebutle: Prostitution CON-Shannon and Lhadze

Prostitution should NOT be legalized. If its legalized the pimps will just go online or continue what they were doing and the prostitute would not report them. Yes, the prostitute is afraid, however she is still emotionally connected and brainwashed by their pimps so that they wont report them because they know about all the bad things that happen in jail and they wouldn't want that to happen to someone that they "love".

"If women and girls are not persuaded by the big money which is sometimes offered, or the survival possibility for women or their families, then they will simply be tricked or trafficked."

- Cecilia Hofmann, Secretary of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

As Cecilia Hofmann states, IF girls  are not persuaded by "the big money" they will be tricked or trafficked, this means that the girls will be tricked into thinking that this is okay. Most of the time pimps find girls whether they want to be found or not and they put themselves into a position were the girls see them as a father figure or some one who "loves" them and once the girls get emotionally connected to them, about a week to a month, the pimps tell them things like if you love me you'll go make my money or they force them to. If the prostitute "loves" their pimp, or thinks they do, then they don't want a loved one to go to jail or be imprisoned.

A lot of the time girls are kidnapped and forced to be in these situations. When girls are forced into doing this and their "patrolling" the streets, their pimps, along with other people, are watching them and driving around making sure their doing what their supposed to. So a lot of the time it isn't easy for girls to get away and go tell the authorities.

"...an international crime ring was abducting young girls in Europe, importing them, and forcing them to work in Chicago brothels."- Wikipedia, article on "white slavery"

Women and mainly young girls are forced to be in this situation. When girls are brought in from Europe,  they don't know the streets that their on and they hardly speak english, so they can't get to the police, or any help at all.

Sources:
• http://prostitution.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000101
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_slavery#White_slavery