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okay, so in our class discussion, one person said that before we make sex labor legal, we must give women trapped in such a life, different alrenatives. I have to say that I completely agree with this. In Legitimizing/legalizing sex work, we give men the freedom to do as they please with the women who were put into such conditions by force. We purposely condemn unwilling victims to a lifetime of sex labor of which many have no choice but to stay in.

With that said, of course sex work should be legalized. For many, sex work is the only form of surviving due to a lack of education; for others, sex work is simply easier, or empowering. But this does not mean that conditions in a work place should be used to manipulate workers to stay and work. I mean why must the idea of sex be used to keep workers in the sex industry from living normal lives without being looked upon as whores, sluts etc.

I think that this lies with the idea of sex as devil worshipping in the eyes of society. If sex was not looked at as an evil sin, then sex work would  not be so hard to legalize.