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Should Prostitution Be Legalized?

Should Prostitution be legalized?

  • Prostitution should be legal and openly regulated.

    Votes: 36 72.0%
  • Prostitution should be illegal.

    Votes: 9 18.0%
  • Prostitution should only be decriminalized and associated aspects of it heavily regulated.

    Votes: 3 6.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • Total voters
    50
A very simple question that was inspired by a thread I saw in the Intl' Politics section. Simply put do you think prostitution should be legalized or criminalized? Why or why not? I personally support legalization, but I'll take an OP's prerogative and elaborate on why later.

What is immoral about prostitution? Is it immoral because people who don't love each other are having sex? If that's the case, half of the housewives in Orange County should be arrested and charged with prostitution. The horrors of prostitution - the drugs, the pimps, the abuse of women - are manifestations of our policies, and our policies are sometimes (and in this case) manifestations of our fear. This irrational fear is that anything legal will be construed as honorable. John Edwards cheated on his wife while she was in a hospital dying, and that wasn't illegal. Does anybody here feel that our nation thinks cheating on your dying wife is acceptable?

We should be a nation that bases its policies on function and not fear. Make it legal, regulate it, whatever. Or let states decide. Let's just start the ball rolling and get it right.
 
Why do you want to tax it? Unless you want the govt to be the pimp, then they have no claim to a cut.

Why should it be exempt from the same taxes other service industries have to pay?
 
How about teaching men to control themselves??

How about teaching women to control themselves! Put the credit card down and step away. Stop being such greedy, selfish and materialistic creatures!
 
Why should it be exempt from the same taxes other service industries have to pay?

In most states services are not taxed or are you referring to income tax which everyone is supposed to pay--even for illegal activities.
 
In most states services are not taxed or are you referring to income tax which everyone is supposed to pay--even for illegal activities.

Good point. Then yes, it would be income taxes. They would be much more likely to pay those taxes if the service they were providing were legal and regulated.
 
MEN???? Have you not seen the HUGE amount of female teachers enjoying the penis of underage boys?!?!

Yep..my partner wishes that he had had female tutors...
 
Why aren't porn "actors" considered prostitutes? Aren't they paid to have sex?
 
Why aren't porn "actors" considered prostitutes? Aren't they paid to have sex?

They are not being paid by the person they are having sex with. That makes it ok.
 
other
states rights
We shall see what works and what does not.
Info sharing, openness, honesty anyone ?
I see that 19% live in the past here....
 
It should remain illegal.
 
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