Legalised prostitution cannot deter rape and cannot justified married man to go for prostitution too, says a local female
lawyer who is very much against the legalization of prostitution in the country.
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Voon (second from the right) expressing her points. Seen on her left is Christine Liew the State Assembly Women for Batu Kawah and PKR Sarawak Women's Chief Nurhanim Dato Haji Mokshen |
Voon Shiak Ni even posed the question on ‘whether prostitution should be legalised’ in her face book to get comments from members of the public.
She made a comment in response to her lawyer colleague who had during his mitigation for a case involving prostitution had mentioned that prostitution should be legalised and that legalisation can deter rape.
“Within 24 hours there are about 30 suggestions and comments in writing and some called up. I also discussed the matter
with friends and some other lawyers.
“Most people objected to the legalisation of the trade of flesh as it will cause more social ills, family problems and the spread of sexual diseases at home,” she added.
Voon said of course there are some who said might as well legalise it since prostitution is already in our society and cannot be wipe out and make it mandatory for prostitutes to go for medical check-up.
“But who can ensure the medical check-up regulation can be observed strictly and by the time the problem is detected, sexual disease might had spread to many,” she said.
Voon said she attended a course on “How to curb AIDS” under a United Nation Development Plan to help Malaysia curb the spread of AIDS and during the their workshop they came to the conclusion that AIDS actually spread from home.
“Sexual diseases spread silently and before you know it had passed to those with you,” she added.
She said legalising prostitution will definitely give rise to more demand and this will also lead to women and child trafficking, while legalisation of prostitution is directly a conformation what women are sex objects.
Hence, it will not eradicate illegal prostitution but continue to mushroom the trade, she added.
She said it will also cause violence against women and child prostitution will increase as well as causing marriage and family problems.
“Morally it is not encouraged too and legalising it actually degrade women and our society has to understand that no women would love to be prostitute if there are better choice in life.
“Furthermore, prostitutes are mostly controlled by pimps and many went through abuse and humiliation beyond anyone’s imagination, and some could be beaten up, drugged and even forced to serve a lot of customers and suffered under sadistic customers too.
“No women would want to be humiliated in any way and our society should be encourage to respect women because we love our mothers, wives, daughters and sisters,” she stressed.
Voon pointed out that there was research to support the contention by legalizing prostitution can deter rape.
She said that rape is more about power over weaker sex and not about having sex.
“It’s a form of violence over women and we don’t believe legalization prostitution can stop rape.
“And to give a fair comment to all men, men looking for sex will not necessarily go to the extent to rape and harm a girl,” she added.
She further stressed that legalised prostitution cannot deter rape and cannot justified married man to go for prostitution too.
“We cannot be encouraging young people to seek sex when they should be studying and building their careers,” she concluded.
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