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Prostitution

Should prostitution be legalized?


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That's all nice, but it has nothing to do with the discussion about prostitution.

I'm a big girl and believe I can take care of myself, you seem to think you need government to protect you from yourself. End of discussion. We won't agree on this and share cropping and loans aren't relevant to this discussion. Thanks.

IMO the more responsibility you remove from people, the less they will ever take for themselves. They just become more dependent.

That's why I believe in my signature, in blue.
 
Can you expand on that? Why shouldn't it be legalized?

"It's against nature." (Translation: The Catholic Church says God doesnt like it)
 
Legal and regulated just like other businesses, I havent heard or read any logical reason to make it "illegal".
 
I am generally against any thing being illegal that should be a person's choice if they want to. If a woman or man wants to have sex for money that should be their decision. However I realize that countless women would be forced into it. And I have a problem with that. How do you legalize prostitution without allowing people to be forced into it?
 
I am generally against any thing being illegal that should be a person's choice if they want to. If a woman or man wants to have sex for money that should be their decision. However I realize that countless women would be forced into it. And I have a problem with that. How do you legalize prostitution without allowing people to be forced into it?

P'raps make slavery illegal? Oh wait...
 
I am generally against any thing being illegal that should be a person's choice if they want to. If a woman or man wants to have sex for money that should be their decision. However I realize that countless women would be forced into it. And I have a problem with that. How do you legalize prostitution without allowing people to be forced into it?
Aren't people being forced into as it is now? I don't think that would change in the sense of eliminating it, but I think it would lessen.

Some, people, of course, not all.
 
Aren't people being forced into as it is now? I don't think that would change in the sense of eliminating it, but I think it would lessen.

Some, people, of course, not all.

I think the exploitation would be worse. I don't have issue with a woman choosing to have sex for money however men and probably other women would force people into it or make them "choose" to do it. I would not support something like that. Not without the exploitation aspect being addressed.
 
This isn't Victorian England, where some noble can just pay a thug to kidnap a few peasants to stock his brothel. Nowadays, if prostitution were legalized, it wouldn't even be worth the risk to force people into sex slavery. All it takes is someone to get suspicious of possible sex slavery in a whore house, and the police would be breaking down the door to look into it. Sex slavery is illegal, but when prostitution is also illegal, it becomes much harder to catch the criminals involved.
 
This isn't Victorian England, where some noble can just pay a thug to kidnap a few peasants to stock his brothel. Nowadays, if prostitution were legalized, it wouldn't even be worth the risk to force people into sex slavery. All it takes is someone to get suspicious of possible sex slavery in a whore house, and the police would be breaking down the door to look into it. Sex slavery is illegal, but when prostitution is also illegal, it becomes much harder to catch the criminals involved.

It seems, there is a lot of sex slavery here in germany, where it is totally legal. The reasons lie in other rules and laws that give slave holders leverage.
 
It seems, there is a lot of sex slavery here in germany, where it is totally legal. The reasons lie in other rules and laws that give slave holders leverage.

Oh. Okay then. Here in the United States, this isn't post-Victorian England Germany, where there are other rules and laws that give slave holders leverage. In countries where sex slavery is legal, you are inevitably going to end up with sex slavery.
 
Oh. Okay then. Here in the United States, this isn't post-Victorian England Germany, where there are other rules and laws that give slave holders leverage. In countries where sex slavery is legal, you are inevitably going to end up with sex slavery.

Oh. I am sorry. I was sloppy in formulating it. Prostitution is legal here. Not slavery. There is slavery in spite of prostitution being legal.
 
Oh. Okay then. Here in the United States, this isn't post-Victorian England Germany, where there are other rules and laws that give slave holders leverage. In countries where sex slavery is legal, you are inevitably going to end up with sex slavery.

Maybe there is a problem with many people conflating prostitution, trafficking and slavery all into one. Legalization of prostitution won't eliminate the other two. What it would do is stop the women who may be victims of also being criminals.

People are trafficked and sold into servitude for multiple reasons across the world, not only sex. Recent case in point; all of you that so enjoy those Oh So reasonably priced frozen shrimp at your local supermarket, were probably caught and processed using trafficked slave labor here in Thailand. Shall we outlaw the shrimp business?

And, to address the question of 'would I want my daughter to do this' of course not. But think of this. Americans are the largest consumers, by far, of porn on the planet. Nobody wants their sons and daughters doing it, but it still seems to be consumed in huge quantities, and there I don't think anyone is coercing the actors to perform.
 
Voted yes.

But I believe legalized or not, it doesn't matter so much.
 
Yes many of them.

It's not unusual for prostitutes to be bait for other criminal activity. The customer gets mugged or robbed after picking up a prostitue.
Where prostitution is legal in the US, 'street walkers' are still illegal. In Nevada, for example, you have to work at a brothel. Selling sex on your own time isn't allowed. You can't, say, put an add for services on Cregslist and sell sex from your house.
 
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Its a sickening thought, prostitution, but lets face it, it has been here forever and won't go away anytime soon. Lets legalize it and regulate it, health checks first and foremost.
That's a good idea, require some kind of medical card in order to shop at a brothel so as to protect the worker. Maybe something like DOT medical card that CDL drivers have to get. Maybe even require some kind of basic std education to get the card.

That would also create a registry of customers and the government could revoke the medical cards of felons thus keeping the whole brothel safer.
 
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Could be a simple fix to the whole thing, license it like any other regulated area such as service industry(alcohol), medical, insurance, etc. then any regulations pertaining are perfectly legitimate because it's working under the contract of that license. I wouldn't have a problem with a state health board having the authority to require routine STD testing and having a theft of service charge available to anyone who would skip out. And, at that point pimps could be put out of business because there would be legal recourse to the women abused by Johns.

It is heavily regulated in Nevada and there are few of problems and little or no HIV transmission. Holland and other nations also regulate it. Some of the laws in Nevada are heavy handed and designed to make the prostitutes second class citizens.
 
It is heavily regulated in Nevada and there are few of problems and little or no HIV transmission. Holland and other nations also regulate it. Some of the laws in Nevada are heavy handed and designed to make the prostitutes second class citizens.
The "second class" part is the only portion I think is wrong. I have no desire to engage in business with a prostitute but couldn't care less if others choose to do so, personally I feel that if it were legalized and fell under health codes it would improve the lives of all involved.
 
How are brothels set up?

They are privately run. As I understand, most prostitutes work as self employed persons. Only about 10% are Germans with the rest from various other countries. They work from home, rent a room in a house of prostitution, visit or stand on streets in certain areas. The number being held by pimps and forced to sex is unclear but seems rather large. The EU reprimanded Germany this year for not doing enough to stop it.
 
Can you expand on that? Why shouldn't it be legalized?

Because it's immoral, and if it were legal it would be solicited publicly.
 
Because it's immoral, and if it were legal it would be solicited publicly.

Infedelity is immoral too. Should we lock up half of the married people?
 
Infedelity is immoral too. Should we lock up half of the married people?

Regard your half comment, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

And yes adultery should be illegal.
 
Regard your half comment, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

And yes adultery should be illegal.

So we could have an economy where half the population is babysitting the other half behind bars. That's hilarious.
 
So we could have an economy where half the population is babysitting the other half behind bars. That's hilarious.

I don't have the foggiest idea what you're talking about.
 
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