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Prostitution

Should prostitution be legalized?


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There's no criminal profit incentive when it's given away for free. That's why you can donate organs but not sell them.

The law is the only thing that makes it criminal. Besides, with prostitution, you are only renting the organ, not taking ownership.
 
And when she kicks your back door in to steal from you? You need to get over the "Pretty Woman" idea of what and who most prostitutes are.

Unless most men who engage prostitutes bring them into their homes, which I doubt is the case, it really shouldn't matter. It actually should only matter to the man/woman who engages a prostitute anyway. This situation can happen even if you are meeting someone for a simple date.
 
i voted other

it should be legalized

i dont like the verbiage "heavily regulated"

the women, and or men who "choose" this profession should have regular medical checkups

other than that, what other regulations do you need or want?

age restrictions of course....but i cant think of anything else
 
I'm just going to guess that if you check with the far right evangelicals you'll find plenty of opposition.

True but just as much opposition comes from left wing feminists.

Feminists and right wing evangelicals even have a strange and unholy alliance when it comes to the common ground of opposing pornography and prostitution.
 
I've always said...if men could make a living at it, it would not only be legal but it would be taught in universities and you could get graduate degrees in the field.
 
Great, so what is the difference to the end result if you get sick from your friend the farmer that gives you some food and the grocery store that sold you some food? Would you agree that there is no difference to speak of?

Again your philosophy argues from a flawed premise.

There is a reason more enlightened locales hold good Samaritans harmless if they cause injury while helping someone but an ER room doctor had better have malpractice insurance.

There is a difference between your neighbor giving you across the fence investment advice and a investment firm doing so.

A big difference between a child accidentally shooting a friend and a man hiring a hit man to kill his wife.

Life has nuances, has had them since fire was new but not yet improved, that some embryonic philosophies refuse to see them doesn't mean they are not there... :peace
 
This shows how little you know about prostitution all over this planet.

is there any guy who is the victim of prostitution even if there are male prostitutes
 
History is our friend, try reading how 'the market' handled the issues I named before the government stepped in.

I know my history just fine. If I recall the situation correctly they found rotting flesh and other disease causing conditions in a Chicago plant when looking for proof of the horror described in the Jungle. The jungle was information released to the public that as you would expect alarmed those that consume meat and lead to them wanting something to be done about it. Which as you might be aware people informing the public about things going on in industry is a market force used to correct problems that exist.
 
It's not my religion. Nice dodge of my counter-point though.
Genesis isn't the first record of anything. You would know that if you bothered to educate yourself on something before speaking about it, like prostitution.
 
Genesis isn't the first record of anything. You would know that if you bothered to educate yourself on something before speaking about it, like prostitution.

I'm so stupid. Please help me! Would you please educate me, oh guru of prostitution?
 
Again your philosophy argues from a flawed premise.

There is a reason more enlightened locales hold good Samaritans harmless if they cause injury while helping someone but an ER room doctor had better have malpractice insurance.

There is a difference between your neighbor giving you across the fence investment advice and a investment firm doing so.

A big difference between a child accidentally shooting a friend and a man hiring a hit man to kill his wife.

Life has nuances, has had them since fire was new but not yet improved, that some embryonic philosophies refuse to see them doesn't mean they are not there... :peace

The act of hiring a hit man is an interesting point actually. If someone hires a hitman to have someone killed and nothing happens after that point then no harm was done. The fact that it is a crime is unfit for free society since by all accounts there is no victim. The comparison however is pretty foolish overall. Someone harming another person by accident lacks the basic characteristics of a crime as it lacks intent, which is unlike the act of hiring a hit man where intent to cause harm exists but no act to carry it out has taken place as of that moment. In both examples however there is no justification to consider either a crime.

You can of course carry this over to malpractice suits. If a doctor did not intend to cause harm then again it should not be a crime just as it should not a crime for a samaritan to cause harm when trying to help someone if no intent to cause it can be shown. Failure to help someone successfully should obviously not be a crime.
 
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is there any guy who is the victim of prostitution even if there are male prostitutes

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.
 
And when she kicks your back door in to steal from you? You need to get over the "Pretty Woman" idea of what and who most prostitutes are.

I don't have a "Pretty Woman" idea of what prostitutes are. I have a Libertarian view of prostitution.

And if she kicks in my back door to steal from me she will realize that I don't call the police because you don't need 911 when you have a .357.
 
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.

Non sense, didn't you see Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. CLearly its all fantasy and good times.
 
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.
 
I know my history just fine. If I recall the situation correctly they found rotting flesh and other disease causing conditions in a Chicago plant when looking for proof of the horror described in the Jungle. The jungle was information released to the public that as you would expect alarmed those that consume meat and lead to them wanting something to be done about it. Which as you might be aware people informing the public about things going on in industry is a market force used to correct problems that exist.

Selective memory? What force was used to correct problems that exist? Try VOTER force that pushed a POLITICAL decision that instituted a GOVERNMENT oversight agency. You confuse market force for political force. Market force would have been people simply refusing to buy Chicago meat and the meat industry VOLUNTARILY changes it's way, the USDA meat inspection regulations never would have seen the light of day. Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act 1906, and the forerunner of the Food and Drug Administration- the Bureau of Chemistry all POLITICAL solutions with MANDATORY REGULATIONS, the very antithesis of market forces and the Libertarian way....

Twist it all you can, it doesn't make it true.... :peace
 
Heavily regulated in a brothel, yes. On the street, no.
 
Selective memory? What force was used to correct problems that exist? Try VOTER force that pushed a POLITICAL decision that instituted a GOVERNMENT oversight agency. You confuse market force for political force. Market force would have been people simply refusing to buy Chicago meat and the meat industry VOLUNTARILY changes it's way, the USDA meat inspection regulations never would have seen the light of day. Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act 1906, and the forerunner of the Food and Drug Administration- the Bureau of Chemistry all POLITICAL solutions with MANDATORY REGULATIONS, the very antithesis of market forces and the Libertarian way....

Twist it all you can, it doesn't make it true.... :peace

Yes, the people went to force the meat industry to follow their desires instead of using the market and peaceful means to their advantage. All they did, all that going to the government ever does is take control out of the hands of the people and puts that control in the hands of the state.

Tell me though, how do you enjoy having to go to the doctor to get access to certain drugs? Prescription drugs are a pretty cool thing, eh? Must be fun supporting actions that limit peoples choices like that.
 
I think it should be decriminalized, but regulated. For example, you would not want prostitutes hanging out around an elementary school or turning tricks in a public park. There is also some public health issues such as the spread of hepatitis and various STDs.
 
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