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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
HumanBeing said:
Simple question.
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Of course it should be legal. It's an egregious initiation of aggression to tell people what they may do with their bodies, unless they are uninvitely violating the physical integrity of someone else's body or property.
 
It already is. When she has had enough she leaves and takes half your stuff.
 
Rocketman said:
menstuff.org? LMAO is that owned by the national enquirer or the star?
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Okay, so you don't believe men cheat with coworkers. Whatever.
 
samsmart said:
Simple answer.

Yes.
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what he said

the costs of making it illegal is not worth the supposed benefits

sort of like the war on weed
 
HumanBeing said:
I don't care if it's PC. I care if it's your opinion and if you can justify it with logic and reason :)
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Well, if you're into fornication, adultery, STD's and drugs, then really, I see no problem with it.
 
ecofarm said:
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.
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yes. Because if there is one problem we don't have to worry about in America, it's under-educated un-derpaid foreign workers desperate to get in who can be taken advantage of by criminal networks in their home countries and here.


I understand the argument in legalizations' favor. Since I am of the opinion that legalization will lead to an increase in the sex-slave industry by allowing it to hide within the legal industry, I am in opposition. College Co-Eds working their way through Med School wont' be servicing truckers for $15 bucks a pop - that labor will be done instead by the same populace who performs that service all around the world, young women who are from another country and who are controlled by their pimps.
 
Dooble said:
Well, if you're into fornication, adultery, STD's and drugs, then really, I see no problem with it.
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I love a good bit of fornication every now and then. Not into adultery, but I'm unmarried, not into STD's but happy to wear protection (even happier to use a licensed, certified, tested professional), and I prefer to save my drugs for after the prostitutes as I can't get it up when I've had too much to smoke.

Is that the answer you were looking for? :roll:
 
ChrisL said:
I wanted to say that I can understand what you mean by the demand perhaps increasing the supply, but I think that regulation would be helpful in tracking these people, and getting the girls (or boys) some help. There would be paper work and paper trails. The way it is now, there is none of that, so it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
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Of course. As I said originally, I do think that legalized and regulated prostitution is preferable on at least a theoretical basis.

I was simply pointing out that legalization can and does have its own (quite significant) downsides as well if not handled properly. Any proposed move to legalize prostitution in the United States would have to show some kind of workable plan to lessen the impact of these factors before I would support it.

roguenuke said:
And we have foreign women who are trafficked to the US for prostitution as well. Many are. And it is illegal here. So saying that most of them are foreigners in no way proves anything because you don't know how many would have been there if prostitution was still illegal.
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The European sex trade is widely held to be worse, in large part due to legalized prostitution.

ReformCollege said:
Little Finger is against prostitution? Who would've thought!
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Oh! Teh irony... :lamo

MoSurveyor said:
Maybe they have a different immigration standard than the US?
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Yeah... European immigration laws are actually quite strict in comparison to the United States. This is exactly why the prospect of legalized prostitution worries me as things currently stand.

We have enough problems dealing with illegals already without tossing market driven sex trafficking into the mix.
 
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Gathomas88 said:
Of course. As I said originally, I do think that legalized and regulated prostitution is preferable on at least a theoretical basis.

I was simply pointing out that legalization can and does have its own (quite significant) downsides as well if not handled properly. Any proposed move to legalize prostitution in the United States would have to show some sort of workable plan meant to lessen the impact of these factors before I would support it.



The European sex trade is widely held to be worse, in large part due to legalized prostitution.



Oh! Teh irony... :lamo



Yeah... European immigration laws are actually quite strict in comparison to the United States. This is exactly why the prospect of legalized prostitution worries me as things currently stand.

We have enough problems dealing with illegals already without tossing market driven sex trafficking into the mix. :(
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Prostitution being criminalized has only resulted in exacerbating threats to the health of the public. Period.................
 
i see no logical reason for it to be illegal.

while i myself may never participate i think it stupid to be illegal.

regulate it, make it safer and tax the **** out of it like every other business :shrug:
 
Hypersonic said:
Well, the United States among the world is the most conservative.....
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The hell? Did you just say the US was the most conservative country in the world? Was that a joke?

And how is that a rebuttal to my statement that prostitution does not equal a higher divorce rate?
 
ChrisL said:
15% of what?

Anyway, here's another link. This is the last one I'm providing you. If you still don't believe, then whatever.

Here is some info about the researcher.

Janet Lever, sociologist at California State University, Los Angeles

No. 1 Reason Men and Women Cheat - Netscape Love
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Bottom line, if the wife was taking care of business, the mistress would be out of business
 
Rocketman said:
Bottom line, if the wife was taking care of business, the mistress would be out of business
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According to the article, you could be right.

The No. 1 reason men cheat is because they are dissatisfied with their relationship, while the most common reason women cheat is they feel emotionally deprived.
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I don't see a compelling reason it should be illegal.
 
I think EVERYTHING between consenting adults should be legal.
 
Yes it should be. Bodily sovereignty means anyone should be able to sell sexual services, just as they would manual labor.

As long as the prudes running this country who use prostitution services want to keep their activities secret, it won't be made legal anytime soon. Legal = paper trail.
 
Northern Light said:
Yes it should be. Bodily sovereignty means anyone should be able to sell sexual services, just as they would manual labor.

As long as the prudes running this country who use prostitution services want to keep their activities secret, it won't be made legal anytime soon. Legal = paper trail.
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Great point. That's something I never thought of. Certainly gives you something to think about.
 
ChrisL said:
According to the article, you could be right.
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Umm...

The No. 1 reason men cheat is because they are dissatisfied with their relationship, while the most common reason women cheat is they feel emotionally deprived.
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This seems like it's two different ways of saying the same thing.
 
cpwill said:
Umm...



This seems like it's two different ways of saying the same thing.
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Well, it seems as if the women were just more specific about why than the men. That wouldn't be unusual now would it? :mrgreen:
 
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