- There are prevailing feelings that sex workers have higher rates of disease, some of which may be grounded in truth, for instance "22.9% of female prostitutes report they have ever had gonorrhea relative to 4.7% of non-prostitute females"

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- Religious reasons
- Disease transmission problems
- Violence Issues

Why is sex work Illegal?

Cunningham, Scott and Shah, Manisha. Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 85, Issue 3, July 2018, Pages 1683–1715, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx065

Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health

- As Sex work is more of a clandestine occupation, the issue of violence has been raised as a possible problem, for instance "...68% of women engaged in street-level prostitution have been raped by clients and ... one third of all serial murder victims are prostitutes" therefore because this occupation is so dangerous, possibly/ possibly not inherently peopel have advocated to make it legal to avoid these issues

Issues related to violence and anti-prostitution legislation

Disease-Related Reasons for a anti-prostitution legislation

- Prostitution is considered "immoral" through religions because "it involves sex for money, and they consider prositution a sign  of society's moral decay"

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