State of Nevada being Sued over Legalized Prostitution

In the United States today, the state of Nevada has some of the worst cases of sex trafficking in the nation.  The primary reason being that many counties in the state are making prostitution legal.  There are at least 20 legalized brothels in the state. Too many people have deceived themselves into thinking that a woman should have the power to decide whether or not she wants to sell herself for money.  That it's her life, it's her body, and therefore, her choice.  The truth is, it does the exact opposite.  Legalized prostitution gives the message that in truth, men are in control of women, that there are nothing but commodities that can be bought, sold, and disposed of when they're no longer profitable.  Legalized prostitution does not empower women, it turns them into a commodity.  


Even worse than this, legalized prostitution is in truth, legalized slavery.  The brothels' that operate in Nevada charge a 50% commission for the services that the prostitutes provide, and the pimps take the rest.  These pimps have kidnapped, manipulated, or coerced girls into their service sell them to these brothels, and the owners simply look the other way.  Their concern is not the physical and mental well-being of the women, but their profits.  These women, who are forced to sell themselves every day, suffer both physically and emotionally from what they do, and many never recover fully.  It makes these women believe that they're only worth what somebody is able to pay.  Even more astoundingly, brothels owners are now sending recruiters to Nevada high schools during "Career Day" events in order to recruit young girls into working for them as a prostitute.  


You cannot be anti-human trafficking, and pro-prostitution.  Where you have one, you have the other.  Legalizing prostitution will not end the human trafficking epidemic that is plaguing our nation, it will make it worse because it will only serve to increase the demand and make it even harder to combat the illegal market of women being sold into sex slavery.  The pre-Civil War American abolitionists showed us that state-sanctioned slavery is still slavery, and these brothels are simply another form of slavery that has no place in the United States, or anywhere in the world.  

Today many people, including former brother workers, are standing up and suing state of Nevada.  The plaintiffs are showing to the world that the legalized prostitution is in truth legalized slavery (Link to Video).  It is every bit as wrong as the slavery that existed in the United States before the Civil War and the system of convict leasing and peonage (debt slavery) that followed.  No little girl ever grows up telling her parents "Mommy, daddy, I want to be a prostitute someday."  


This movement to legalize prostitution must be fought, because this is not only a Nevada problem.  This movement is being pushed hard throughout the nation.  California, New York City, even Washington D.C. has witnessed ever stronger movements to make prostitution legal.  We cannot let this happen.  If we support this movement, we are in truth, bringing slavery back to our nation.  If we turn a blind eye to this push, we are doing something that Holocaust Scholar Yehuda Baur told us never to become: a bystander.  If you truly want to stand up for women and stand against slavery, then you must stand against legalized prostitution.  


Sources:

Grybowski, Michael.  "Sex Trafficking Survivors Sue Nevada Over Legalized Prostitution, Say it Violates the 13th Amendment."  The Christian Post.  Oct. 09, 2020.  Accessed from  https://www.christianpost.com/news/sex-trafficking-survivors-sue-nevada-over-legalized-prostitution.html.

Moyer, Phillip.  "Do Nevada Sex Brothels Break Federal Law?  Lawsuit Seeks to End Nevada's Legal Sex Trade."  KSNV 3 News Las Vegas.  Feb. 25, 2019.  Accessed from  https://news3lv.com/news/local/sex-trade-lawsuit.  

Van Oss, Madison.  "Lawsuit Taking on the State of Nevada for Enabling Slavery Through Brothels."  National Center on Sexual Exploitation.  

Williams, Timothy.  "In Washington, a Fight to Decriminalize Prostitution Divides Allies."  The New York Times.  Oct. 18, 2019.  Accessed from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/us/washington-legal-prostitution.html.

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