Prostitution can be culturally discouraged, but MUST be legal

These are the reasons that LL must keep prostitution legal, and I also think it should be included in a bill-of-rights in the Constitution to protect the principles upon which LL was created against future citizens that may believe the exact opposite of these principles.

-It violates the Non-Agression Principle to make prostitution illegal as it enacts police force against people who have not initiated aggression against anyone. Prostitution is victim-less.

-There is a study of Rhode Island (prostitution legal 1980-2009) that showed a 31% decrease in reported rapes after prostitution was decriminalized. Links below to that study and 6 others that indicate a lowering of crime by legalization/decriminalization.

https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Decriminalizing-Indoor-Prostitution_-Implications-for-Sexual-Violence-and-Public-Health.pdf
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w20281/w20281.pdf
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2606891
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/61808/Chen%2C%20Sirong.pdf?sequence=1
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0886260504270333
https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/nsw-sex-industry-report-2012.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-021-00605-7

-This is the first time in my research for LL that I have been strongly against the “Nordic” model. They have decriminalized the selling of sex, but CRIMINALIZED the buying of sex. Many other countries have copied their model, including France, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Canada. Several studies have shown an increase in crime after adopting this unfair model; of course the studies twist the meaning and say that “prostitution” causes the crime But really it is the unfair criminalization of the men that purchase it that increases crime.

https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/justice/assessment-of-impact-criminalisation-of-purchasing-sexual-services.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0791603520939794
https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02115877/document

-Criminalization procedures in places like Serbia operate more as a tax on prostitutes rather than actually trying to stop the acts.

http://www.atina.org.rs/en/prostitution-serbia-goes-under-radar-what-are-penalties-and-whom-they-are-most-often-imposed

-Women who are against prostitution are really just engaging in a mate-choice-suppression-strategy. If we think of sex as a free-market-place, women are incentivized to remove their competition from having access to the market-place and then they can “charge higher prices” for access to sex.

When we look at the above points, it seems obvious that prostitution should be legal just from violation of the NAP and the decrease in crime alone. Every other reason to keep it legal is just a value add-on.

I state again that prostitution should be legal and put in the “bill-of-rights” to protect it from some radicalized form of feminism that may emerge in LL in the future.