Illegal prostitution businesses in America, of course, pay no taxes. (Nevada Republicans blocked a plan a couple of years ago to subject brothels to state taxes, as they didn't want schools and other state services funded by sex work.) While brothels in Nevada pay no state taxes, they pay " significant amounts of tax" to the rural counties where they do business, according to The New York Times. While the spread of disease and other detriments are possible in the practice of prostitution, criminalization is a sure way of exacerbating rather than addressing such effects." Legal Prostitution Can Be A Source Of Tax Revenue Prostitutes are not committing an inherently harmful act. (Moreover, it doesn't make sense to arrest sex workers if they are their own "victims.")Īs Cornell law professor Sherry Colb has written, "Prostitution should not be a crime. While some advocates argue that prostitutes are victims of Johns and pimps, sex work can be a victimless crime if women sell their bodies of their own volition.
Prostitution Is Arguably A Victimless Crime This law is posted on the outside of the state's brothels, according to the paper by Barbara Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck of the University of Nevada. Nevada also requires condoms for all sex in brothels. But states that legalize prostitution can require sex workers to use condoms and get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.Sex workers in Nevada have to get monthly tests for syphilis and HIV and weekly tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia. Illegal street prostitutes might face pressure from pimps and Johns to forgo condoms. The study concluded that "brothels offer the safest environment available for women to sell consensual sex acts for money." Legalization Would Make Sex Workers Healthier "There are two reasons for doing it, one, the sheriff’s office, but also the girls’ personal safety." But that control also makes us get along pretty well with the sheriff’s office," one owner told the researchers. The owners we interviewed ensure this by making it policy to call the police at the slightest hint of trouble to send a message that they don’t tolerate bad behavior. Brothel owners have a clear interest in maintaining their image as law-abiding, trouble-free businesses to keep their licenses and maintain good relations within their communities.
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