Obviously you don't agree, but it has nothing to do with literal and figurative. Your position is based in emotion and mine is based on logic. I can specifically state how and why prostitution should be legal in a logical and consistent fashion. I can draw logical and consistent parallels. What you and others do for your position is just say "No it's different", but give no logical reason WHY prostitution is different than any other job with regard to "selling oneself".
Yours is circular logic to my way of thinking. You keep repeating the waitress comparison to prostition, over and over, but when we say they are different, you say no, they are the same thing. You say the waitress is selling her feet, or her hands to accomodate a service for food or drinks. Firstly, food and drinks are a necessity for life. You gotta have them to survive. Sex is a take it or leave it thing. Nobody on earth has to have sex with another human to survive. Sex has a lot of operatives that go on with it. Some people have to feel emotion with it, some don't. Some want a commitment, some don't. Some eventually want a kid because of it, some don't. The kid issue is the huge issue, and this cannot be denied. Sex causes kids. This is the actual purpose for sex. You can deny this, but it's biological that the reasons humans are made up the way they are is to attract the opposite sex to have sex and then make a baby. As long as sex is necessary for making children prostitution is going to be ostracized. This is also what makes it sacred. It's had a sacredness since the beginnings of time. You can have fun with it, but the fun is so you'll make a baby.
Incorrect. Many things have been decriminalized or criminalized against the majority opinion.
This is true, but prostitution has been legal in Neveda a long time and it's not overun with legal prostitutes, and even has illegal ones. I was saying all prostitutes would be flocking to Neveda for the "trade" and they haven't. It's not that lucrative for most, so why bother with the hassle, plus it's messy and awkward. yikk!
Indeed it is "whatever you want to pick" which makes the "it's degrading" argument against legal prostitution pretty moot. That was my entire point and I'm glad you agree.
I still think it's a degrading profession for women because they are the one's being penetrated. Women are being dominated when they are being penetrated. I don't see how anyone can see it any differently. It's how men and women are made. Yes, they can also give blow-jobs, but here again, whose mouth is being penetrated?
Yes yes I know. If you buy a girl drinks in a bar, or take her to dinner or buy her gifts, or pay for her apartment... that's so different than just handing her cash.
Buying someone a drink to socialize and get to know them is not buying them something to get sex with, it's a social gesture of attraction, and the woman or man can reject it if they don't want it.
Has nothing to do with any spouse or girlfriend (if they exist). Has everything to do with a guy being honest about what he wants, and a woman being honest about what he has to do to get it.
People tend to be dishonest in most situations, so I'm not big on the honesty argument. Guys always want sex and women know this. It's how men are. It's not rocket science. First things Mom ever told you is, "they just want to get into your pants", or "keep it zipped up and in your pants".
This is irrelevant to the discussion.
That didn't need to be pointed out, and obviously I thought it was relevant, I took the time to type it.