Should Prostitution be Legalized in Georgia?  

June 6, 2002

Prostitution, the granting of a sexual favor for material gain, is but the next predictable step in the sexual revolution. There are male prostitutes, but women are identified with the profession of prostitution and men are known as the procurer or the customer. By virtue of continuous propaganda that prostitution is victimless, more women and girls, thinking they will not become victims, become promiscuous outside of marriage.

Decriminalization, according to those who seek to benefit from legalizing prostitution, would free up the courts from having to deal with victimless crimes. Wasn’t “no victims” the message when Georgia voted to amend the Constitution and go into the gambling business? Now look closely at the victims strung in the wake of gambling addiction.

Prostitution is now legal in the state of Nevada. Resort areas legally market prostitution and massage parlors, a new name sometimes used for brothels.

I would think the state of Georgia would be reluctant to go into the prostitution business as it did the gambling business, but since gambling money was used to educate children, would prostitution money be used for day care centers? Would the state ignore the immorality of prostitution? Would the state ignore the fact that pornography is tied to prostitution and that pornography takes men from addiction, to escalation, to desensitization, to acting out through overt behavior? Would the state look the other way when it is proven that prostitution causes men to think of women only as objects to be used. Would the state ignore the pleadings of the church to uphold the sanctity of sex within the confines of marriage for the sake of men, women and children?

The perverted taste of sexual addiction sells. Pornography is a billion dollar industry with thousands upon thousands of web sites devoted to child pornography. There is TV sex, video sex, film sex, and sex in virtually every kind of publication. The pornography industry needs the legalization of prostitution to meet the needs of the sexually addicted, regardless of the infidelity, the sexual abuse, or the divorce it generates.

There are those in pornography circles who are hoping our country will focus on the battle against terrorism and let up in our battle against indecency and obscenity, but prostitution and terrorism are not new. Nations have been plagued and weakened by both for generations.

Prostitution should not be legalized in Georgia or any other state. The same voices that call for abstinence from drugs and tobacco should not be willing to allow any illicit and dangerous sexual behaviors to be glamorized or protected to the detriment of our children, our families or to society as a whole.