The Mercury

Please allow me to respond to the MP's suggestion to "legalize prostitution for 2010". Some of the arguments put forward in favour of legalizing prostitution were (in my opinion) weak and flimsy.

To begin with, how can a person in the position of leadership suggest that an immoral act can become a means of success? The very act of women selling themselves is shameful and disgraceful. To say that it should be legalized "because people don't have access to women" is indeed immature and foolish. In other words, the MP is saying that if women are not "willingly" offering themselves then men should be encouraged to pay for their services.

Again, it is a feeble argument to say that with the legalization of prostitution, people would no longer "do things in the dark". The fact that they are doing it in the dark indicates that sex out of wedlock, fornication, adultery and illicit relationships are considered abhorrent and detestable by society as a whole. By legalizing this vile act, would this not then reduce the immorality associated with prostitution and normalise something originally considered to be underhanded?

Sex workers would bring in more tax money- does this mean that things that are immoral should be welcomed by society as long as they generate money? This would create jobs – let’s not say anything more about such a silly statement.

So before we support and promote the MPs suggestion, let us all first think very carefully about whether we want to inject more immorality and the wide spread of indecency into our society.

Ebrahim