The issue of prostitution has long been controversial. With the increasing objectification of women's bodies, as well as the buying and selling of sexuality as a commodity, there is an "even more urgent need to understand the commodification of sex in the range and diversity of forms that prostitution is taking." , and to analyze the meaning and impact of these developments on the status of women” (Barry 1994). Counterarguments to this claim that prostitution is “a practice of women's resistance to sexual liberation from traditional moral norms and principles of sexuality that have served to control and subordinate women (Jeffreys 2009).” Therefore, prostitution is said to be a form of liberation rather than a form of oppression. However, feminists argue that prostitution sexually oppresses women because it perpetually establishes the patriarchal definition of women as “having a primary function of sexually serving men (Bell 1987; Barry 1994).” It must therefore be recognized that there are two sides to every coin and the issue of prostitution will therefore be treated as such. This essay aims to consider every aspect of the issue of prostitution: the enigma of whether it should be a women's choice will be thoroughly analyzed through the different views of feminists regarding prostitution, the sexual construction of men and women, women's choice and action in prostitution, and the economic aspects of prostitution. First, the impacts of considering prostitution as a women's choice will be considered. This argument states that the practice of prostitution must be considered an autonomous activity of the woman. This argument is further perpetuated by “prostitutes and prostitutes' rights” which “vigorously asserts the possibility of women's agency in prostitution… at the heart of the document… the ongoing system of discrimination against a group of human beings for the benefit of another group of human beings, namely: men in preference to women. Simply put, prostitution violates the fundamental human right to physical and moral integrity through the alienation of female sexuality, which is transformed into a thing to be bought and sold. Prostitution cannot be said to reflect women's right to choose: as highlighted above, it simply provides society with the illusion of free choice. In reality, women who practice prostitution are forced to resort to it due to certain socioeconomic circumstances. The crux of prostitution serves to objectify and dehumanize women, because men are given authority over what women can and cannot do, and therefore, it simply serves to preserve the most stereotypical of gender roles in which men they are seen as dominant and women, submissive.