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Prostitution: Constitutional or Unconstitutional? You Decide

Constitutional or Unconstitutional?


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I don't see how anyone can vote no on this one. While you may not believe its moral, the constitution and the founding fathers sought to protect individual liberty in-spite of their personal moral/religious beliefs and private contracts are one of those protections.
 
I don't see how anyone can vote no on this one. While you may not believe its moral, the constitution and the founding fathers sought to protect individual liberty in-spite of their personal moral/religious beliefs and private contracts are one of those protections.

I couldn't vote in this poll. Laws themselves are constitutional or unconstitutional, criminal action itself is not subject to constitutional review. (I'm sure this has been pointed out before, I haven't read every post here).

However, I fully support keeping prostitution illegal.
 
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I dont really like the wording but Ill answer the best way I can.

I dont know if its constitutional per-say but it in no way shape or form is unconstitutional thats just silly, theres is no logic to support that what so ever.

I dont like saying its constitutional because to me that seems like the constitution protects that specific right, either way, again theres no logic to say its unconstitutional thats just peoples emotions getting in the way of logic.
 
I couldn't vote in this poll. Laws themselves are constitutional or unconstitutional, criminal action itself is not subject to constitutional review. (I'm sure this has been pointed out before, I haven't read every post here).

However, I fully support keeping prostitution illegal.

While its not a right protected by the constitution, it isn't unconstitutional to allow it to be legal. Whenever something like this comes up, the first question I ask is

Is it a private contract between consenting parties?

With the case of pimps, as someone mentioned, it get murky. However, in all other cases, theres no justification in my mind, legally, to have the action be illegal. If one were to perform a cost-benefit analysis of having the action be illegal vs legal, I'm more inclined to believe that its more favorable to have the action be legal while being regulated by laws, not executive agencies.
 
To begin with, that's one fellow, who is not a doctor, against the established position of the AMA. I trust the doctors over some quack with a website. Also, the article doesn't actually SAY what you claim it does. It says that the people who seek out child porn are the same ones who have inclinations towards pedophilia. Well DUH! Also, the title you link for the article isn't its actual name. This makes sense given that the article isn't proposing that. Seems your common sense isn't so common.

Do you know how to read? I'm curious. What part of this did you miss:

A team of researchers in Toronto, Canada has recently published a paper, titled, "Child Pornography Offenses Are a Valid Diagnostic Indicator of Pedophilia" in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (August, 2006, Vol. 115, No. 3, 610-615)

Hmmm... How does one go about getting published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology? Would you like to take a guess? Just for fun.

I'd be willing to bet, without looking it up, that you have to have a degree in Psychology at the minimum. And amazingly this was a group of "RESEARCHERS" Please note the plurality, which one would take to mean more than 1 person with a psychology degree. In actuality I'm willing to bet that a "group of researchers" means more than 2, since they didn't say a "pair of researchers".

To even attempt to argue the data is an idiotic argument at best. You yourself even admit that those who seek out child porn are the same ones who have inclinations towards pedophlia. Hmmm.... Who else would seek out child porn? I can only think of 2 groups.

1. Those who want to have sex with children: ie those with an inclination towards pedophilia.
2. Law Enforcement Agents tasked with the job of seeking out child porn in an effort to curb or stop it.

So, are there any other arguments you'd like to make for your case? Perhaps a study or 3 to say that those who view child porn do not have an inclination towards pedophilia? I don't think your going to find one, unless of course it's written by a pedophile attempting to justify his/her own case of viewing it. But then again, they have an inclination towards pedophilia so that would disqualify them from giving an objective answer wouldn't it?
 
And there aren't any social benefits at all - so that's a no-go :)

That's not true.

1) Legalizing prostitution will cut down on sex trafficking.

True, it won't stop the complete monsters with sick tastes but it will help with the casual johns who just want a good time for a night. The reason why teen prostitution and sex slavery is so prevalent is because those illegal suppliers focus on teenagers to cater to both.

Take the Lawrence Taylor case, for example. He went riding around to procure the services of a prostitute for the evening. He hired one he thought was over 18. The prostitute was actually 16. He was charged for having sexual misconduct with a girl under the age of 17. He plead guilty to patronizing a prostitute and sexual misconduct.

Now L.T. was looking for an underaged prostitute. Rather, he was looking for a prostitute, and because it's illegal and unregulated, he got caught up with an underage prostitute.

By legalizing prostitution, underage prostitution and underaged sex trafficking will diminish.

2) It's safer for the prostitutes

Because it's legal and rules of its operations can be done in the open, it allows for more safety measures to be followed that will protect the prostitutes. For instance, laws could demand that prostitution is allowed only in brothels.

This protects prostitutes, who risk their lives every time they perform their work. They have to go someone hidden and out of the way of law enforcement, whose jobs it is to protect the well-being of people. This makes prostitutes prime targets for assaults and murder.

Legalizing prostitution will allow prostitutes to operate in the open and with security to protect themselves.

3) It's safer for the customer

It's safer for the customer because prostitutes can perform other crimes, such as robbery, on potential customers. Now this may sound funny for male customers of prostitutes. But what about female customers of prostitutes? Women are just as likely to solicit the services of a prostitute, be they male or female, as men. So this reduces the risks to female customers too, along with male customers.

4) It's healthier for the sex industry

By regulating the prostitution industry, steps can be taken to provide safety measures can be taken for the well-being of prostitutes and the customers.

For example, every prostitute would need a license to operate. In order to get that license they'd have to first take an course on sex education. This course will give them detailed information on how to maintain sexual health. They will also have to get tested for STDs on a regular basis.

This is a much better alternative to street prostitutes may be uneducated on safe sex and are prone to drug abuse which vastly increases their chances of catching STDs and other illnesses which may go untreated and therefore further increases the chances of them being spread to others.


So there. At least 4 ways in which the legalization of prostitute have social benefits.
 
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