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Should prostitution be legal and not just for medical reasons?

Should it be legalized?

  • Yes, as quickly as possible

    Votes: 12 26.7%
  • yes and regulated by the state...

    Votes: 27 60.0%
  • no way...other people paying for sex ruins my life...

    Votes: 2 4.4%
  • don't you have anything better to do with your time...

    Votes: 4 8.9%

  • Total voters
    45
Since the topic of legalizing marijuana came up, we should discuss another "illegal" activity...

Should prostitution be legal?

Absolutely.

Legalize prostitution, but criminalize pimping.
 
Since the topic of legalizing marijuana came up, we should discuss another "illegal" activity...
I'm guessing prostitution has been made illegal by silly ol' outdated Christian values, anyways, so why not? Isn't it time America got with the program?
 
Bah, everyone knows my opinion on this but I believe that laws against all victimless crimes, including drug use of all kinds, are nothing more than Law Enforcement Employment Security Acts. Prohibition never works. History has taught us that. Education works. Tobacco use has gone from 60-70% of the population decades ago down to a small fraction of that. Legalize, regulate, educate.

Of course prostitution should be legal. As with drugs, legalizing prostitution assures cleaner, safer environment for both prostitutes and their clients. Prostitution-driven crime plummets... who needs a pimp when performing a perfectly legal service? Of course, vice officers will be twiddling their thumbs, so that isn't going to happen.

Adults have the absolutely right to decide what to do with their bodies, what to ingest in their bodies, whether it's healthy or not. Educate hell out of the population, use license fees and drug taxes to fund low-cost rehabilitation facilities, and help drug users in the same manner we now help alcoholics and those addicted to tobacco. Provide programs, support and assistance.
 
Duplicate thread, JasonI. You can PM a Moderator and request they be merged. :)
 
If we legalize prostitution, the amount of tax revenue could pay off our national debt within a few years.

:cool:
 
I'm guessing prostitution has been made illegal by silly ol' outdated Christian values, anyways, so why not? Isn't it time America got with the program?

Meaning ?

As is well known, a number of counties in Nevada have legalized and perhaps control prostitution.... This could be true in some other states....we cannot be that "backward".
You, and other conservatives may want religious laws to control things that the state should be, but not I.....I wish for religion, all religions to keep their noses out.
As to the "medical reasons".......???
 
yes... sex is legal if voluntary... the exchange of money for sex doesn't change the nature of the activity whatsoever.

we must, however, find effective ways to combat slavers ( pimps) and the slave trade.... the activity of prostitution must be a voluntary association.
 
Absolutely not. The commercialization and commoditization of sex is inherently degrading and dehumanizing and our society is already rife with the problems that come from viewing our families and communities as disposable conveniences.
 
Bah, everyone knows my opinion on this but I believe that laws against all victimless crimes, including drug use of all kinds, are nothing more than Law Enforcement Employment Security Acts. Prohibition never works. History has taught us that. Education works. Tobacco use has gone from 60-70% of the population decades ago down to a small fraction of that. Legalize, regulate, educate.

Of course prostitution should be legal. As with drugs, legalizing prostitution assures cleaner, safer environment for both prostitutes and their clients. Prostitution-driven crime plummets... who needs a pimp when performing a perfectly legal service? Of course, vice officers will be twiddling their thumbs, so that isn't going to happen.

Adults have the absolutely right to decide what to do with their bodies, what to ingest in their bodies, whether it's healthy or not. Educate hell out of the population, use license fees and drug taxes to fund low-cost rehabilitation facilities, and help drug users in the same manner we now help alcoholics and those addicted to tobacco. Provide programs, support and assistance.
Agree 99.9%
This LEESA is quite the problem.....these to be unemployed could cross the line and do the necessary controlling and tax gathering.....lol
An ex-viceman as a legal "pimp"....better than thumb twiddling.....lol
 
Since the topic of legalizing marijuana came up, we should discuss another "illegal" activity...

Should prostitution be legal?

Oh my! Here are debate polics we've never debated that before!! Ah - I can't fathom the scope of this issue.

Oh wait - no - haha - I still don't care :D

Legalize and not legitimize.
 
Moderator's Warning:
Merged.....
 
Absolutely not. The commercialization and commoditization of sex is inherently degrading and dehumanizing and our society is already rife with the problems that come from viewing our families and communities as disposable conveniences.
True, and the present laws do nothing to help this.
Instead we should face life as it is, not as we wish it to be.
Or do you really think that prohibition works ?
 
Life is lonely for some. They find comfort and who are we to criticize or condemn two people making a voluntary exchange of needs? Not I.

And I agree that pimping should be heavilly punished.
 
True, and the present laws do nothing to help this.
Instead we should face life as it is, not as we wish it to be.
Or do you really think that prohibition works ?

We're pursuing the wrong solution. Replacing one wrong solution with another wrong solution-- a more wrong solution-- is not progress. We should treat it like a medical or social problem with the workers, and reserve the full force of criminal sanction for the customers and the "managers".
 
If we legalize prostitution, the amount of tax revenue could pay off our national debt within a few years.

:cool:

Politicians don't want legal competition though
 
Absolutely not. The commercialization and commoditization of sex is inherently degrading and dehumanizing and our society is already rife with the problems that come from viewing our families and communities as disposable conveniences.

While that may be true, criminalization of prostitution is not an adequate method of dealing with such things.

I will be fine with criminalizing prostitution only when we ensure equal pay for women, a guaranteed college or technical education, and a welfare state that provides basic housing, food, and medical needs to all people.

Until then, if we're going to have a capitalist society, then we should allow people to use their talents and skills however they can in order to earn money to take care of themselves and their dependents. And that includes those women who have the talents and skills to sell sex.
 
Biased poll is biased.
 
Absolutely YES. It should be fully legal in a brothel environment. Each week, each seller must renew his/her license, receiving a medical exam and being put in a private room with a LEO to give them the chance to be removed from the premises if they are there involuntarily.
 
Until the late 80s Wallace Idaho had a legal house of prostitution and gambling, slot machines in bars etc. It was legal in that the cops just didn't arrest anybody but then the Feds came in and shut everything down. The madam was very generous and donated money to buy the HS football team uniforms and to other good causes. It was a clean, safe and well run bordello. They checked out every customer for VD so you felt fairly at ease going there. It was a right of passage in those days and many 18 year old kids lost their virginity there as a BD gift from buddies. Beats the Hell out of the sleazy crack whores that people frequent in downtown Spokane these days.
 
Why did it close? There is no federal law against prostitution (other than transportation across state lines).

Until the late 80s Wallace Idaho had a legal house of prostitution and gambling, slot machines in bars etc. It was legal in that the cops just didn't arrest anybody but then the Feds came in and shut everything down. The madam was very generous and donated money to buy the HS football team uniforms and to other good causes. It was a clean, safe and well run bordello. They checked out every customer for VD so you felt fairly at ease going there. It was a right of passage in those days and many 18 year old kids lost their virginity there as a BD gift from buddies. Beats the Hell out of the sleazy crack whores that people frequent in downtown Spokane these days.
 
Why did it close? There is no federal law against prostitution (other than transportation across state lines).

Beats me how they did it but the Feds swarmed in one day and shut everthing down. The bordello is now a big tourist attraction because the girls went running into the night as the FBI came into town so every room is just like they left it, kinda suspended in time.
 
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