Do you think prostitution should be legal?

[hani]

I personally don’t think that should be done. Because young girls in their teens go through this path to make easy money. It is one of the world’s oldest profession, it is made a profession in olden days only for the pleasure of royal families. No girl likes to be a prostitute but if gets legalized young girls will be lured and some will be forcefully bought into this profession.

[cezare79]

The whole point about legalizing prozzies is to tackle forced prostitution. You cannot force someone if that taxman has direct access to your business.

It simply CANNOT be legalized however. Imagine a girl on an unemployment benefit. The authorities tell her it is contingent on her looking for a viable job. If prostitution is considered legal then authorities would be perfectly correct in sending her to the nearest brothel or refusing her unemployment benefit. Talk about forced prostitution then.

[Overlord]

There's also some old professions like being a mongol, riding bareback with a sword and burning every village you come across, pillaging and raping the women. Yet it does not have a place in modern society.

Prostiution is impossible to legislate, a degregation of modern civil societies. It is a haven for illegal crime, it exploits women, and I would be horrified to find my wife, sister or mother involved (a good test of the value of certain things).

This is like legalizing PCP. Sure it kinda makes sense logically but the actual reality is grotesque, violent and sick.

[silenthill22]

It spreads disease but I think it should be legal. How can the law say two grown adults can't have sex with the exchange of money? It's your body. Grown adults should be able to make their own desicions even if it means getting a disease from doing it. lol

[Overlord]

It spreads disease but I think it should be legal. How can the law say two grown adults can't have sex with the exchange of money? It's your body. Grown adults should be able to make their own desicions even if it means getting a disease from doing it. lol

See this is how I feel intellectually about it, too. Problem is I don't want to live anywhere near a town that has these kind of laws because it would be disgusting to see this happening around you. It's a hard decision but I would support the moral one. This would open the door to all kinds of mistreatment of minors and the slavery that forced prostitution creates. There's no way to protect the innocent so liberty suffers instead. This to me is just like the drug problem. It would be fine if you could smoke PCP and just be crazy in your own home. The problem lies in that PCP users have this tendacy to tear off their clothes, jump out of buildings and run screaming down the streets attacking everyone they find. So instead we're forced to ban the drug.

See what I mean?

[andrexote]

its legal on my country...but it doesnt mean theres isnt a part who are legalized...(aid n stuff)

[Snuff.]

Problem is I don't want to live anywhere near a town that has these kind of laws because it would be disgusting to see this happening around you. It's a hard decision but I would support the moral one. This would open the door to all kinds of mistreatment of minors and the slavery that forced prostitution creates. There's no way to protect the innocent so liberty suffers instead. This to me is just like the drug problem. It would be fine if you could smoke PCP and just be crazy in your own home. The problem lies in that PCP users have this tendacy to tear off their clothes, jump out of buildings and run screaming down the streets attacking everyone they find. So instead we're forced to ban the drug.

See what I mean?

i'd happily trust local judiciary measures and the good will of corporate enterprise to ensure it be sufficiently segregated from my domestic life.

think for a minute: "domestic home, domestic home, domestic home, brothel, domestic home etc." ...no.

it is entirely a matter of ethics...which in reality is not the case with drugs.

pcp, for instance, has not been a recreational substance since its use was discontinued in the veterinary profession during the 60s. what i am saying is that pcp is not a drug of choice...it was a direct result of saturated demand and little supply. pcp broke the mold and screwed many people over big time.

if you must ban any drug use you must ban inebriation as a whole. current laws on drugs make them among the most profitable substances in the world for...wow, look at that: terrorists. :)

i mean come on: at out best we're happy to crush small states militarily in the face of near unanimous domestic objection, but when it comes to a simple economic coup with a fraction of the domestic repercussions we cringe away.

[Vanguard]

yes

[Quackers]

Yes, it should be legal. At the end of the day, everyone has their own decisions to make. If prostitutes/rent boys want to make their lving that way then who are the governt to say they cant. Their bodies, their decissions.

[Faucet]

Totally agree with T.REx and everyone with similar views. If it's their body they should have their own decisions. But forced prostitution is a byproduct or whatever of it.

[Rocker Kid]

Prostitution should not be legal cuz' it's just spreadin' the disease. If prostitustion were legal there would be a big spike in HIV and AIDS and all sorts of diseases.

[kratos]

Well in norway its legal.
However it is NOT allowed to profit from other people's protitution.

[luffy_123]

Prostitution should not be legal cuz' it's just spreadin' the disease. If prostitustion were legal there would be a big spike in HIV and AIDS and all sorts of diseases.

I agree. it could become even more of an epedemic.

[Big Ozzie]

Prostitution should not be legal cuz' it's just spreadin' the disease. If prostitustion were legal there would be a big spike in HIV and AIDS and all sorts of diseases.
Not if the prostitutes were controlled by the government as they are where it is legal.
They must take monthly physicals, be tested for drug abuse, wear a physical barrier (condoms) and pay taxes on their earnings.
The STD rate and the drug use is much lower amongst prostitutes where it is legal than where illegal.
There are still illegal prostitutes, drug addicts, ones that don't pass the physical, etc. BUT the punishment for being an illegal or using one is much greater.
I don't think prostitution will ever be obliterated, as long as women have something to fill, men will do anything to fill it.
THE BOTTOM LINE....(this is one way to look at it and NOT intended to degrade the opposite sex or any member thereof) 99 pct of women are "prostitutes". They just get paid by different means, a house, a car, an engagement ring, a wedding ring, clothing or food on the table. Sometimes a LIE or a quick I LOVE YOU will pay the price.
The other 1 pct are NUNS! :wink:

[luffy_123]

i guess your right, but they wouldn't come and be tested would they.

[Big Ozzie]

i guess your right, but they wouldn't come and be tested would they.
They do, or else they lose their licence to prostitute.
The "trade" is regulated and confined to certain areas of a city, much like AMSTERDAM or areas outside of LAS VEGAS.
That way the "Johns" can go with out fear of prosecution or of catching a disease.
Policing is merely a matter of checking id's and current licence the way a cop would do during a traffic stop.
Of course there will be the "illegals" such as those who insist on driving drunk or without a drivers licence, BUT the penalties would be much stiffer (no pun intended) for failure to comply.

[Henyo]

Well prostitution is legal over here in Germany.

[godschild]

Prostitution should be legal. It over taxes too many police and community resources to classify it as criminal. The majority of encounters take place between consenting adults. It is the fringe elements that make up the least amount of transactions that require the most attention. Girls who get abused, pimps, drug trafficking, gang violence, etc.

It is our very laws that make these circumstances so hard to combat. We expect our police force to enforce our morality on 100% of the population when it is the few who cause the problems. Police share their time between trying to find the child predators and busting two consenting adults. If you want to help your kids cut down the number of people police have to keep track of.

While this profession is as old as time, every society that has tried to ban it has only succeeded in pushing it to a black market trade. And there it can fester with the rest of the trade craft until it spills into the lives of our kids where we can scream “help me officer! My kid is dead with a needle in his arm because he went down to some crack house to get his dick sucked by some two dollar whore” A very large chunk of police resources could be moved to finding child predators if we did not police consenting adults.

Turn it over to the American businessman/woman where it belongs. Bring it out in the open and let them act as a buffer for the police. Some madam busting her ass running a high class place will not let some pleather suit pimp push his whores around her business. Hell no. Legit businesses do not like illegitimate action on their turf.

Morality? Would I want my family to do it?
No. But I choose to educate them about the dangers and try to help find better ways to make a living. We stress education in my family. If someone in my family turns to prostitution in its current form it is for one of two reasons. They chose to or we failed them. Simple! But either way I don’t love them any less AND would want them to at least have police protection. Hookers can’t even file a report when they are assaulted for fear of prosecution for revealing their profession.

Torture? And other old world crimes are extinct so why have Whores?
They are not gone by a long shot. Torture and forced prostitution are alive and well. Even on our own soil.
Sex is almost a basic primal need. The number of people able to go through life with no sexual desire is infinitesimal. We seek it out. So I do not mind having laws that prevent torture and forced prostitution. I would even like to see them enforced. But don’t tell me it is a criminal act for some guy to pay twenty bucks of his hard earned cash for a little bit of pleasure.

Unemployment? This was a good point.
Could states force women into prostitution or deny them benefits?
Seriously doubtful for three main reasons.
1 If you are writing new laws things like this would be taken into account.
2 Women who lose their job cannot be forced into the exotic dancer industry just because the strip club on the corner is hiring. These same legal precedents would structure the laws so that women who lost their jobs could not be denied unemployment benefits or other state/federal aid for denying work as a prostitute.
3 Taxes are complicated but basically if we did not let prostitutes pay unemployment tax then they would not be eligible for benefits when they can’t find work laying down. Or knelling depending on your preference.

We can take up drugs in another thread but I bet you know where I stand on that one.

[Overlord]

godschild you're such a liberitarian... that's why i like you. I disagree with you on this one but your argument makes perfect sense to me. I just wish we could make the VR good enough that people would get their fixes online or alone with out the black market underworld feeding off of the weak and poor in this country.

[cheese muffin]

i think that prostitution should be legalized but still restricted and controlled. such as having prostitutes and their uh... "customers" should register with the state or forcing the prostitutes to charge ridiculously high prices. just a thought.

if u think thats completely ridiculous^^^^. dont bother telling me so. i already think i went a little too far.

[Chribbe]

If I want to provide a service for rich, old widows thats should be my right! =)

[Monstermash]

I think prostitution should be legalised, after all there have always been prostitutes and always will be. Regulating will keep it cleaner. Also if there is a place where all the prostitutes are there could be special alarms for them so if there is trouble they could call out for help. By having them on corners they could be picked up by anyone and taken anywhere and who knows what could happen. It's also a way of making sure that no underage youngsters get involved and there should then be harsh penalties for people who decide to work outside this. After all if they can't get their kicks this way, then they really are dangerous. Its also better for the punter as he/she could be sure there's little danger of catching infection. The only problem is how does a prostitute know their client has no sexual disease.

[LTF]

I think prostitution should be legal for good looking women.

Ugly bitches should go to jail for trying to sell their ass.

[Satan's Uncle Ron]

LOL!!!!

[CaptainPlanet]

If it was legal would a whore get disability benefits for catching teh AIDS/Herpes/PoonCancer?

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