Do You Think Prostitution Should Be Illegal? (page 5)

stillajwexelder

I think it should be decriminalized - that would be a good compromise

I think decriminalization without regulation would be an even worse nightmare than we currently have. I agree with what White Dove and others have said. It needs to be strictly controlled like it is in Nevada, and maybe even more than that. Also, tax the crap out of the Johns.

And whoever said legalize Marijuana, I'm with you there, too. I've never tried the stuff but I know many people who indulge relatively harmlessly.

Balsam

Well I think it should be legalized to protect both the adult prostitutes and the people who go to them. Humans have been fighting it for centuries and it doesn't work. If a woman is married to man who wants to go to prostitutes then they need to dump him if they don't like it. I had a JW husband for years that didn't frequent prostitutes but had affairs. That equally proved he was a useless man for being married.

That is my old gals opinion.

poopsiecakes

I can't think of anyone I've talked to who thinks that adult prostitution should be illegal - makes me wonder why that change hasn't come already ages ago. As far as I'm concerned, what people choose to do with their own bodies is their business and that applies to most drugs as well. Criminalizing personal choices is ineffective. Isn't that what the whole prohibition fiasco proved?

jaguarbass

In Florida the call girls advertise in the weekend entertainment whats happening papers.

They call themselves escorts.

When I have traveled, I look in the phone books. Many places I have been to had a listing for escorts.

I think Prostitution should be legal.

I think Marijuana should be legal.

freydo

You'd be amazed at the history of "age of concent" laws.

I did a stint once as a substitute teacher. In one 6th grade class across the hall the teacher told me that the year before, she had two students. Male and female. The boy married the mother of the girl.

DaCheech

To protect children and others that could be done harm to, I believe that it ought to be run like entertainment and health spas are run: taxable, labor laws for it, and Department of Health to over see the profession in order to keep everyone clean and healthy.

It should be legal under those conditions just for the protection of the workers

this is what I agree with.

anyway legalizing would include the stopping of under 18 and the stopping of pimp brutality

chickpea

in general principle i have no issues with
prositution that involves a willing party
offering sex for cash, especially with regulations
geared toward health codes, personal safety,
and age requirements for both parties....

stickier wicket than the reductionist belief, tho,
that purchased sex will suddenly occur only
"between consenting adults" if prostitution
is "legalized"

nations that have tried to somehow
legitimize prostitution are finding
that human trafficking increases
and the sex-workers are still the
exploited pawns and pimps flourish

social workers and experts think decriminalization
for the sex-workers is a more practical approach,
leaving the pimps and the johns out in the cold

http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/prostitution_legalize_or_not/

blondie

Well said, chickpea!

mindmelda

We waste a lot of time and money trying to legislate so called "Christian morality" in America. They figured out in Nevada a while ago that regulating prostitution to make it safer for everyone was easier and definitely more profitable...even for the workers.

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