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Should prostitution be legal?

Should prostitution be legal?

  • Yes

    Votes: 92 83.6%
  • No

    Votes: 18 16.4%

  • Total voters
    110

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Simple question.
 
Yes, though we've had mixed results with such experiments thus far in a few countries. In some cases, there needs to be safeguards against foreign women flooding the market and creating an endangered under-class.
 
Although I think it is disgusting, prostitution should be completely legal as long as it is between consenting adults.
 
No. It's not something the government should be sanctioning.
 
No. It's not something the government should be sanctioning.

Does the government sanction everything it does not make illegal?
 
No. It's not something the government should be sanctioning.

The question says nothing of government sanctioning prostitution.
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely? Very few customers would be willing to be observed while having sex, and without watchful eyes, anything can happen, the main issue being condom usage. Plenty of customers would be willing to pay a premium for not using a condom, and the prostitute would pocket the extra gains and not have to share with the brothel owner. STD testing will of course catch a problem, but only after it becomes a problem.
 
Does the government sanction everything it does not make illegal?

"Sanctioning" may not have been the best word. "Legitimizing" would be better.
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely? Very few customers would be willing to be observed while having sex, and without watchful eyes, anything can happen, the main issue being condom usage. Plenty of customers would be willing to pay a premium for not using a condom, and the prostitute would pocket the extra gains and not have to share with the brothel owner. STD testing will of course catch a problem, but only after it becomes a problem.

It is regulated just fine in Nevada.
 
"Sanctioning" may not have been the best word. "Legitimizing" would be better.

I think it is perfectly legitimate to allow adults to be adults.
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely?
How does one observe a masseuse at work to ensure they are working safely and not committing prostitution? Or do you want to ban private massage too?
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely? Very few customers would be willing to be observed while having sex, and without watchful eyes, anything can happen, the main issue being condom usage. Plenty of customers would be willing to pay a premium for not using a condom, and the prostitute would pocket the extra gains and not have to share with the brothel owner. STD testing will of course catch a problem, but only after it becomes a problem.

I don't know about that. I see nothing wrong with having closed circuit cameras in the rooms of the brothels to monitor what happens in the rooms, and tell the customers about it.

While there may be some customers who wouldn't go to those brothels, I'm sure there will be a number who won't mind it, considering it is a legal form of prostitution and that the evidence from the monitoring will protect them just as much as it would the prostitute.
 
I don't know about that. I see nothing wrong with having closed circuit cameras in the rooms of the brothels to monitor what happens in the rooms, and tell the customers about it.

While there may be some customers who wouldn't go to those brothels, I'm sure there will be a number who won't mind it, considering it is a legal form of prostitution and that the evidence from the monitoring will protect them just as much as it would the prostitute.
Holy crap are you kidding me? Even with legal prostitution most men wouldn't want their wives knowing about it, you think people will want to be on camera, that could be recorded, and used for blackmail? just because it's legal doesn't mean that the brothel owners are decent mom and pop owners, as the wikipedia article on Nevada brothels reports most women working at the brothels claiming exploitation and the use of girls under age 18 in the brothels.
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely? Very few customers would be willing to be observed while having sex, and without watchful eyes, anything can happen, the main issue being condom usage. Plenty of customers would be willing to pay a premium for not using a condom, and the prostitute would pocket the extra gains and not have to share with the brothel owner. STD testing will of course catch a problem, but only after it becomes a problem.

Would be interesting to see their HR performance review.
 
It's not a victimless crime. People don't get into prostitution because their lives are going well. Would you be ok with someone doing "business" in the house next to yours?
 
Holy crap are you kidding me? Even with legal prostitution most men wouldn't want their wives knowing about it, you think people will want to be on camera, that could be recorded, and used for blackmail? just because it's legal doesn't mean that the brothel owners are decent mom and pop owners, as the wikipedia article on Nevada brothels reports most women working at the brothels claiming exploitation and the use of girls under age 18 in the brothels.

I'm saying let the free market of ideas decide.

And, personally, I wouldn't let myself get blackmailed doing something legal. Rather, I'd report the blackmailer to the police.
 
It's not a victimless crime. People don't get into prostitution because their lives are going well. Would you be ok with someone doing "business" in the house next to yours?

Yes, but we live in a capitalistic society based on the supply and demand of labor and services.

In other words people enter the sex industry because it's the only way they can find work to get paid to clothe and feed themselves.

If we're going to be restricting such forms of labor then we should use the state to provide incentives and guarantees to keep them out of that field.

And no, I wouldn't want a business next door to my house.

But, on the other hand, I wouldn't mind if such a business was zoned so they could operate only in certain areas.
 
Besides the morality question, there is a nagging problem with legalizing prostitution. How does one observe the prostitute at work to ensure they are working safely? Very few customers would be willing to be observed while having sex, and without watchful eyes, anything can happen, the main issue being condom usage. Plenty of customers would be willing to pay a premium for not using a condom, and the prostitute would pocket the extra gains and not have to share with the brothel owner. STD testing will of course catch a problem, but only after it becomes a problem.

I don't think condom's should be required for prostitutes. STD testing should be required regularly, but anyone who's dumb enough to have sex with a prostitute without a condom deserves what they get.
 
Simple question.

Yes, making it legal would lead to regulation and possibly help to prevent or at least cut down on problems with abuse, STDs and underage prostitution.
 
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