No to prostitution

The article titled “Club for sex workers” proved that our country is in the hands of evil people. My question to Thabita Khumalo is: what benefits do we get from legalizing prostitution?

First, legalising prostitution is a very sensitive and controversial issue. Someone should remind Thabita Kumalo - a senior MDC official - that prostitution is a social ill that is a product of other social ills. She should also be reminded 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 raging out of control, girls dropping out of school, etc. We say that slavery has vanished, but this is not true because Thabita Khumalo is lobbying for it.

Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution (French author Victor Hugo).

Very few women become prostitutes because they want to; most are driven to it by poverty.

Thus, legalising it is not going to change attitudes or human nature. Instead of busy pushing for an expansionary policy, please push for rehabilitating policies.

Khumalo should respect women. Her calls to legalise prostitution are existing because she is objectifying women sexually. A woman’s body is not a commodity.

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 for political mileage.

Our legislators 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.