Prostitution is sex abuse and trafficking

Whatever we can think of, someone, somewhere has done it – or is doing it. Christianity Today reports that Germany has legalized prostitution and is setting up “sex huts” around stadiums during its World Cup (soccer or football) series.

Supposedly the sports fans cannot control themselves for a period of time, so the German government is providing a “relief valve.”

There is no excuse for a Nation to subsidize and legalize the use of women’s bodies for sex – whether for pay or not. No one in this day of hundreds of varieties of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, including HIV/AIDS and the long-overdue recognition that 99%+ of cervical cancer is caused by a “venereal disease,” would consider prostitution a “victimless crime.”

Countering claims that it is the woman’s body and her “choice,” the CT editorial cites these statistics:

Prostitution is anything but glamorous. The U.S. State Department’s office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons points to prostitution’s core problem: The “routine abuse and violence that form the prostitution experience and brutally victimize those caught in its netherworld. Prostitution leaves women and children physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually devastated.”

The statistics are sickening. “Field research in nine countries concluded that 60 to 75 percent of women in prostitution were raped, 70 to 95 percent were physically assaulted, and 68 percent met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder in the same range as treatment-seeking combat veterans and victims of state-organized torture,” the office reports. “Beyond this shocking abuse, the public health implications of prostitution are devastating and include a myriad of serious and fatal diseases, including HIV/AIDS.” The study found that 89 percent of respondents wanted to leave prostitution.