No to legalising of sex work


Legalising sex work is a very sensitive and controversial issue. Sex work is a social ill that is a product of other social ills.

The reason that “it is going to happen anyway so legalise it is naïve. Should we legalise rape, pornography and murder because they will always happen?

The Bible tells us that prostitution is immoral, “For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Like a bandit, she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.” (Proverbs 23:27-28 New International Version).

Prostitution destroys marriages, families and lives. Legalising it destroys the spirit and soul in a way that leads to physical and spiritual death.

Making prostitution legal leads to the moral degeneracy of our society as a whole; diseases (AIDS and STIs) raging out of control, girls dropping out of school, abuse, murder, infidelity and sleeping with different men.   

Legalising prostitution increases human trafficking. Men can seduce women and girls and coerce them in to prostitution.

We say that slavery has vanished, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution (French author Victor Hugo).

Very few women become sex workers because they want to; most are driven to it by poverty. Thus, legalising it is not going to change attitudes or human nature.  

By legalising prostitution, it becomes a criminal enterprise and remains intimately tied to organised crime.

Calls to legalise prostitution are existing because women are objectified sexually. A woman’s body is not a commodity.

Remember 1 Corinthians 6:13 says that the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

As a society, we need alternative ways of assisting prostitutes. They need real help (to be equipped with true skills, real psychological and spiritual help) not short term assistance and mere semblance of caring.

We should be advocating for better parenting, birth control and fighting to provide our children with greater opportunities so they don’t have to sell their bodies.

Up with hope, down with legalising prostitution.

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