n't matter what that service is.
             Prostitution is defined as when a person engages, offers, or agrees to engage in sexual contact with another person in return for something of value to be received by the person or by a third person. Sexual contact occurs when there is either sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse which is a sexual act involving the genitals of one person and the hand, mouth, tongue, or anus of another's, and sexual contact which involves the self touching of one person to sexually gratify another person sexually.
             There are three distinct types of prostitutes: the brothel worker, the "call girl," and the independent laborer (Ulch). The brothel worker is protected by men hired to deal with unruly clients, but for that service she must pay a percentage of her earnings. The "call girl" has the highest status of all the prostitutes because she is protected by a screening service and has say in which clients she will take and where she will see them, but like the brothel worker she must also give up a percentage of her earnings. The independent prostitute, or "street worker," has the lowest status and is frequently abused by her pimp, clients, and authorities.
             The largest benefit that the typical American taxpayer would see is a large amount of money coming from the legal brothels that provide sex for money. On the street the minimum figures for a typical street worker is $20 a trick, at an average of six clients a day (Leone and O' Neill). That is a minimum of $120 of untaxed income a day. If you take that figure and think of all the programs that could be started to help with the prevention of prostitution, drug use, and the fight against crime. Prostitutes should be taxed just like the rest of society and the money could be used to help the public. This option sounds a lot safer than the money going to pimps to fund illegal activity. Since counties began legal...