Sexual Relationships 
Sexual Health Legalizing prostitution would:
a) Regulate the business, thus filtering out sex workers with STDs and preventing other infected workers from entering.
b) Allow safe sex prostitution to dominate the market whilst discouraging unsafe sex practices by removing the threat of prosecution when consumers choose the former.
c) Create a safe avenue for sexually-frustrated men to channel their desires and gain relief and satisfaction from their urges and sexual needs.
So with these three incentives in mind, do you think that legalizing prostitution would serve as an effective control mechanism to lower or stabilize the rate of rape in society?
Does legalizing prostitution lower the rate of rape?
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What Girls & Guys Said
8 22Belgium has legal prostitution but the guys raping are not the guys who would typically hire a prostitute.
Legalizing prostitution DOES lower the rate of rape
No. It's a power thing not a sex thing
No it's not. That's a common misconception.
Yes it does but it still shouldn't be legal
No cus the nastier women are prostitutes
Prostitution has nothing to do with rape. Rape is about power.
But couldn't you argue that a potential rapist could just "dominate" a sex worker (with her consent) in order to satisfy that compulsion?
Yes, but I don't think like a rapist. I don't know if they think before they do it or even have the logic in the moment to say "Hey, I could just hire a prostitute." I have no idea what goes through their minds it's just my opinion.
Fair enough. I'm also simply hypothesizing too
I know, I didn't mean to bash you or anything.
Nah, all good. I didn't take it that way :)
Ok good ☺️