3 Benefits of Decriminalizing Prostitution

 Decriminalizing prostitution is a part of Eurydice Hazzard’s plan for a new world order. Discover its widely accepted and debated benefits.

 

The Woman in the Woods and the Reaper from the original Revelations 12, Eurydice Hazzard, announced a new addition to her plan for world change on December 21, 2022: Legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution.

Not letting women engage in sexual relations with men when the reverse is widely accepted is internalized misogyny. Criminalizing it does more harm than good. Decriminalizing it, on the other hand, may have some benefits.

1. The Fundamental Right to Earn a Fair Living

Stop with all that Muslim men can have multiple wives and do right by them all because it’s all a bunch of nonsense compared to how they’re treated. Every woman deserves the right to choose what’s right instead of having a man decide for her.

Prohibiting prostitution removes a woman’s right to (sex) work and support herself and her family. Decriminalizing prostitution gives them this right and the mutual respect and dignity often missing in this line of work.

2. Reduction in Police Violence

Open Society Foundations cited police violence in a brief called “Ten Reasons to Decriminalize Sex Work,” saying women who engaged in illegal sex work were more vulnerable to violence, health concerns, and blatant extortion.

They can’t report these crimes against them because they’re aware of their crime, which shouldn’t be a crime at all. After all, it makes them more vulnerable to violence at the hands of law enforcement. Decriminalizing prostitution may help decrease the underreporting of such violence.

3.  Reduced Risk of HIV

Criminalizing sex work puts women at increased risk of sexual health concerns because it takes away their autonomy on matters related to contraception. They are often unable to negotiate condom use or are too scared to use protection due to the threat of getting arrested. As a result, they are 30 times more likely to test positive for HIV than the wider female population.

Take a page from New Zealand’s Prostitution Law Reform, passed in 2003, that informs sex workers of their right to negotiate safe sex, among other things.

As the above-linked posts, written like Don’t Fear the Reaper lyrics, have made amply clear, Eurydice Hazzard is all for legalizing sex work or, at the very least, decriminalizing prostitution so that women are more open to coming forward with their grievances.

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