Throw lots of prostitutes in prison. Protect Johns, pimps and sex traffickers.
Well, you're not paying attention. I said, in my disclosure of my opinion, that pimping should continue to be illegal, to prevent exploitation and to give a legal framework to law enforcement in order to prosecute human trafficking.
And your catastrophic slippery slope that millions of prostitutes would be in jail if the profession got legalized is contradicted by the experience of countries where prostitution is legal and regulated. What you see in those countries is that the vast majority of prostitutes then go and practice within the law. They are not being thrown in jail by the hundreds of thousands and millions as you pretend, with no substantiation in reality whatsoever. Just like the vast majority of doctors practice within the law, as well as the vast majority of dentists, lawyers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, accountants, etc.
Regulating a profession doesn't result in millions of people being thrown in jail... but rather results in millions of people practicing within the law, and themselves, their clients, and customers being protected against a variety of risks, including malpractice, lack of payment, etc.
If an electrician is hired by a customer to do a complex electric installation, he will show a state license, he will be approved by his guild as a
bona fide licensed and insured electrician. If his work is substandard and sets the client's house on fire, the client will be able to seek legal reparation. If his work is outstanding and the client refuses to pay the contracted price, he will be able to seek legal reparation.
If electrician work were illegal, neither situation would be amenable to legal reparation.
I don't know about you, but every single time I needed an electrician to do some serious work, they were able to show me a state license when I asked for one, and were able to provide a legal contract. Much better than some unqualified amateur screwing up and jeopardizing my house with fire risk.
What would you rather have? A licensed electrician, or a non-licensed amateur illegally practicing electrician work? I don't know about you, but I'd go with the former.
It doesn't mean that hundreds of thousands of fake electricians are in jail.
Get a grip. Walk away from the over-dramatic and hyperbolic slippery slope. Nobody is about to throw millions of prostitutes in jail by legalizing and regulating their profession. It's a win-win; it's safer for them and safer for the Johns, and both sides will gladly embrace the safer practicing field, like it happens in many enlightened countries already.
This has nothing to do with being a liberal or a conservative.
It's simply a question of public health and public safety.
The fact that in order to practice medicine, a doctor needs to get a license (by providing proof of the proper education and certificates and the proper passing scores in licensing examinations, and passing a background check and other requirements by the State Medical Board) protects the public.
Would you rather go to a licensed doctor, or to some con artist pretending to be a doctor and illegally practicing Medicine with no qualifications?
Me, I'd go to a licensed real doctor.
I don't have any need for a prostitute, like I said. I'm happily married to a wonderful, loving, classy, beautiful, and sexy woman who is a great sex partner and whom I deeply love and respect.
But if I needed the services of a prostitute, I'd rather go to a licensed one in a legalized and sanitary environment, who would be tested and certified STD-free and who would not try to rob me, rather than an STD-infected low life with a violent criminal as a pimp, in some sleazy back alley.
All countries who legalized and regulated prostitution saw a sharp decline in crimes associated with the profession (robbery, human trafficking, abuse and exploitation) and STDs. These countries did NOT see a sharp increase in arrests of prostitutes who skipped the rules.
Think of it.
Let's say you have in a country 1,000,000 prostitutes, and prostitution is illegal. There, you have ALL of them in an illegal situation, therefore subject to arrest.
Now, say that the country legalizes and regulates prostitution, and 950,000 of them gladly embrace the safety and security of the new environment, and abide by the law. 50,000 don't and practice outside the law. Now you have 50,000 of them subject to arrest. That's 20 times fewer than before.
So, why do you suppose that turning 950,000 of them into legal practitioners would INCREASE the number of incarcerations? It makes no sense.
Even if, say, half of them refused to abide by the law, you'd still have only 500,000 illegal, while before you had all 1,000,000 illegal.
So how in the hell do you think that legalizing the profession would INCREASE the arrests???
