Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

This time around i am going to seem ridiculous or even absurd at the first place but the gravity of the issue persuades me to be honest. Being a very contentious issue in India let me throw some light over the history and the legality of the "world's oldest proffesion" . In contemporary india, prostitution is considered a taboo and not too many people like to talk about it in public. Inspite of this, In 2007, the Ministry of Child and Development reported presence of 2.8 million sex workers in India, with 35.47 percent of them entering the trade before the age of 18 years. Also the number of prostitutes entering the "business" has also doubled in the last decade. According to a Human Rights Watch report, Indian anti-trafficking laws are designed to combat commercialized vice; prostitution, as such, is not illegal. A sex worker can be punished for soliciting or seducing in public while clients can be punished for sexual activity close to a public place, and the organization puts the figure of sex workers in India to be around 15 million, withMumbai alone being home to one lakh (100,000) sex workers, the largest sex industry centre in Asia. Some very famous sex centres or red light areas in india are Sonagachi in Kolkata,Kamathipura in Mumbai, G.B.Road in New Delhi, Reshampura in Gwalior and Budhwar Peth in Pune host thousands of sex workers. They are famous red light centres in India. Earlier there was a centre in Dalmandi in Varanasi and Naqqasa Bazaar in Saharanpur also. So inspite of the fact that prostitution is not promoted it is restricted to some places in towns and cities. This article of mine will focus on why prostitution should be promoted and made a national agenda and how legalizing it could bring in enormous benefits for the country.
Why should anyone join prostitution with so much social vice attached to it. The reason is simple and straightforward; to earn and to survive. In a country where 80% of the population lives at less than Rs.20 per day it is not surprising why the number of prostitutes has doubled over the past decade. The fact that prostitution is "illegal" gives so much more power to the exploiters of the prostitutes. I have to make five broad points of why prostitution should be legalized and the benefits it will have for the society.
1. Legalizing prostitution in the country will help to check the menace of deadly AIDS and other STDs whose main breeding point is prostitution. As there is no or little government medical and health support for the informal prostitution, it becomes very difficult for the government to keep a check on the number of the prostitutes who are infected with AIDS and other STDs. Also, legalizing prostitution will ensure better health services for these prostitutes and will help to spread awareness about AIDS more effectively. It will also ensure that children of these prostitutes will have acess to better education thereby strenghtening them intellectually and better equipping them for survival in this cruel world.

2. The growing fiscal deficit of the government can be reduced if prostitution is legalized in India. So, how can this be done ? Just think, what will happen if the government includes and markets "sex" in the "Incredible India" campaign is that campaign india stands to gain a lot of foreign currency which would help it to reduce pressure.........2 b continued