The negative effects of legalizing prostitution in the Netherlands
...eople who directly concern with this issue argue that legalizing prostitution would regulate and control the number of prostitutes in the country, in reality it does not but ultimately expands the number of sex industries. It was recorded that after the legalizing on prostitution, the amount of sex industries had expanded nearly 25 percent by the year 2000. At any hour of the day, women of all ages and races dress in hardly anything and they are put in the brothels as a goods for sale. Second, to legalize prostitution on the Netherlands directly affects on the increasing demand on prostitution. Generally speaking, it increases and boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider range of socially acceptable settings. Nowadays, many men who would not risk buying women in the past see prostitution as acceptable and then start to use this sexual service. Therefore, it establishes a new value of the society that it is acceptable to buy women which encourages more men to promote this value. Basically, the legalization of prostitution sends the message to the new generations of those men and boys that women are the sexual commodities and sexual services that are offered for them. Lastly, the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands brought a great change on the increasing number of young prostitutes. Many people strongly believe that to legalize prostiution in the Netherlands would help society end child prostitution, but in contradiction, child prositution in the Netherlands has increased dramatically during the 1990s after the legalzation on prostituion. According to the statistics by The Amsterdam-based Child Rights Organazation, the...