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Sex work should be fully decriminalised
This position holds that sex work should be fully decriminalised, including paying for sex. It argues that this keeps sex workers safer — letting them work together, screen clients and access healthcare without fear of arrest — and that criminalising consensual sex violates bodily autonomy.
Supporting arguments · 7
- Sex workers won't have to work in dark isolated areas where they are more at risk of becoming victims of a crimeThe high-risk environments and isolated areas where sex workers work lead to many of them being victims of crimes and violence, such as murders, assaults, rape, and abuse.
- Removing penalties for soliciting and kerb crawling gives workers more time to screen out potentially violent clients
- Legalising brothels provides sex workers with safety in numbers
- Sex workers can access healthcare without fear of arrest
- Criminalising consensual sex in any form impedes on the human right to bodily autonomy
- Reduces the number of 'sex tourists' travelling abroad to use brothels/services that disproportionately exploit children and force them into sex work
- Allows the continuation of clients with disabilities who rely on sex workers to fulfil their sexual health