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Should prostitution be legalized?

Ding ding ding! We've got a winner! I just wish the government and religious groups would accept that premise and move on.

The way I see it is the closest thing to a downside to legalizing prostitution is you'd suddenly have thousands of pimps out of a job. With beating women as their only skill they'll have a tough time finding new work.

You really can't throw religion in this one. Not all people believe that their body is theirs but is loaned to them until their souls' depart to their respective final destinations.

But it would be kinda funny the contracts you would have to draft for clients.

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Had and interesting conversation with a secretary in the law firm where I am the IT person. She was telling me about one of the retired older partners who, over a 30 year period slept with almost every secretary who ever worked for him. I commented that his wife had to know, she said "Of course she knew, but that big house, European vacations every year, the summer house on the beach and the new ‘Benz every year is a pretty good motivator for her to look the other way." I said "what separates her from a Prostitute?" She said "Your guess is as good as mine"
 
I don't like the idea of prostitution - it seems very demeaning and horrible. Its not something IMO that society really needs at all. That said as River said there are tens of thousands of women being brought into countries under false pretences and forced into prostitution. They get no money, no life, and end up dying of an overdose.
I think legalizing it would be the lesser of the two evils, but it should be heavily regulated. There are plenty of women who go into prostitution willingly, but they seem to be in the minority. Most go into it as they are broke or are forced.
 
If you own your body, what you do with it is no business of the government, as long as you do not infringe on the rights or liberties of your fellow citizens.

Actually, you do not have exclusive and all encompassing rights to your own body. You cannot sell certain parts like your kidney and your family cannot sell your heart or lungs to the highest bidder when you die. You cannot rent parts to others. Do not think that last sentence requires explanation. Smiley Double-Wink.

You can, however, sell your car, and you can sell parts like hubcaps and alternators. You can rent it to others and you can "kill" it if the repair bills are too high or it wont wake up and go when you want to go.

Some components, like cells removed from your body in the course of treatment might be patented by others and you (potentially) loose rights to them. You essentially become the property, in a sense, of the doctor, corporation or research facility that patented your genes. And then you cannot use your genes to create products to help others because you do not have any rights to those component parts.

That comes from a number of news stories and case law cited in the footnotes of Michael Crichton's book, "Next."

Consider the actual case:

Crichton
 
i cant legally smoke pot or google some pretty girls yahoo for some $$$ but I can carry a fully automatic silenced and concealed gun with the right permits... o_O

However, the right to keep and bear arms in a true right granted us by the founders. Prostitution and drugs are not mentioned in those documents.
 
It is legal...you just have to buy the girl something rather than handing her the money. They call it dating. There is also the bar method of buying drinks.
 
I know, but taxing it just drives the point home about what it really is at it's core. Some things should not be for sale. At any price.

No one is forcing you to be a John if prostitution were legalized. Part of living in a free society is the freedom to make bad decisions. If a woman (or a man) makes the choice to become a prostitute they should have the right to make that decision.
 
If you think marijuana laws should change because the enforcement costs are too high, I'll bet enforcing prostitution laws have cost us far more over the decades.

Especially in election years! :rolleyes:

Unfortunately it's easy for politicians to sanction police to go after prostitutes during an election year... and then get on the 6pm news to gloat about how they are agressive in protecting the public (from a victimless crime). All this while few, if any, "additional" police resources are allocated to catching violent criminals.
 
It is legal...you just have to buy the girl something rather than handing her the money. They call it dating. There is also the bar method of buying drinks.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend :p

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If you own your body, what you do with it is no business of the government, as long as you do not infringe on the rights or liberties of your fellow citizens.
I've been to countries where people, including many children, have their limbs cut off to make them more effective at begging. The more limbs removed the more horrific it looks and therefore, the higher their earning potential.

Often it is done by gangs. Sometimes it is done by parents to their own children but a lot of the time adults do it to themselves.

Ignoring the first 2 scenarios and considering the case of adults maiming themselves, do we really go so far as to allow people to do what ever they wish with their bodies, no matter how damaging and detrimental, for money?

It's complicated. When somebody is so desperate as to maim or prostitute themselves to survive, you can't but feel sorry for them.
 
'Standard sales tax' makes me think of groceries or cars or a fridge, say. It's like a woman's body and her intimacy has been reduced to an object for sale on a supermarket shelf.


well if she wants to become a prostitute to make money and such, she is selling her body as an object and nothing more, if she cant handle the emotion, heartache that comes with it then she shouldn't have became a prostitute, and yes I understand some women are forced into that sort of lifestyle due to struggles that no one can understand and I am not talking about those women, I am directing this comment at the women who choose to do this either as a source of income or because they are addicted to drugs and can not find another source of money.
 
I don't like the idea of prostitution - it seems very demeaning and horrible. Its not something IMO that society really needs at all. That said as River said there are tens of thousands of women being brought into countries under false pretences and forced into prostitution. They get no money, no life, and end up dying of an overdose.
I think legalizing it would be the lesser of the two evils, but it should be heavily regulated. There are plenty of women who go into prostitution willingly, but they seem to be in the minority. Most go into it as they are broke or are forced.

and you honestly believe that legalizing prostitution would stop any of that? IMO the more likely scenario is that because prostitution is now legal, the women being forced into prostitution will go more easily under the radar because they're scared as hell to report they are being raped and now since prostitution is ok, the selling of sex is not enough in itself to raise any eyebrows.
 
Ain't that the truth.

Bob loves hookers. I like their shape, their skin art, that many are toothless, the wide range of colors available, that you can select scarred and non-scarred versions, and how they brighten up many a dull and dreary street corner. The red lights are festive and they remind me of Christmas. The fact that I do not need to cuddle or talk after. And gambling that I will not be infected or end up married is always an adventure. Lots to love about hookers.

I do NOT like police decoys, however. Let's ban them, OK?

Prostitution has been with us for a very long time. I recall a historical account about sea captains that had problems with loosing the cut nails from their ships because the metal was traded for sex by members of his crew on shore leave.

It is illegal because of the puritans among us and it is all about the bible and religious views exposed by two faced leaders that rally against letting boys be boys; all the while getting their bone on with an intern at lunch.

It is a sin some say, and in my view, the idea that it represents a health issue is silly because not controlling the workers results in diseases and therefore, a greater health issue. In a brothel, working under a license, and with a proper health permit, things become safer. And I'll bet if legalized, the taxes collected would be substantial.

Odd thing about sex. It is one of the most searched for things on the Internet. Sex is a part of life. Sex is required to procreate and when we do, we are proud and congratulated. We just can't talk about it, however.

Get caught with a hooker or your aunt Betty during a family reunion because she wore a leather halter and just because she helped raise me and so what, we showered together and that does not mean it is bad, so let me alone, mommy, it is a loving thing. This is somehow thought of as bad.

Sex, Sex, Sex... it is here forever and I vote yes! Legalize it, tax it, control it, clean up the women, offer weekly coupons and specials, combine it with other services like house cleaning services, and develop an Android app.

Barring accidents, most men have a penis; they have seen their own for as long as they can remember. But you can't show one in public. All women have breasts, they have seen them for as long as they can remember. But you can't show them.

It is like being shown only a few parts (like the windshield wipers but never the engine or blower) of one on Enzeo's finest and never being allowed to drive one except in the State of Nevada.

We have sex on the brain, but, we can't allow any evidence that it exists. I say, open the doors and let competition drive down the prices and let's have places us old men can go besides our neighbors house while John is away on business and it only happened once so get off my back.

Stop trying to eliminate the World's Oldest Profession because it cannot be done.

I do wonder, however . . . if it were cheap and plentiful, why the hell would a man marry a woman? Well I would say that if I were a pig. We have too many kids as it is, and a prostitute wont take your stuff when you want an upgrade or the upgrade's sister.

And . . . you can date three hookers at the same time with no complaints or accusations of cheating when I really was working late. and no, I did not seduce your sister, we were working late that one night at the Holiday Inn because they were cleaning our office carpets, so stop accusing me of having an affair with your brother, OK?

Seriously, would marriage decrease if the physical part is as available as a Big Mac and Fries? Especially if you start seeing the "Buy One, Get One Free" or "Two-Fer" offers on junk mail day when the grocery ads are delivered.

All I know is never get caught in bed with a live boy or a dead hooker.

Bob
Hahahahahahahahaha, holy cow that was an awesome read.
 
'Standard sales tax' makes me think of groceries or cars or a fridge, say. It's like a woman's body and her intimacy has been reduced to an object for sale on a supermarket shelf.

Groceries are exempt from the sales tax here. Your argument then is to not legalize prostitution at all, not the method that it should taxed. Every time a nasty film is made, a woman's (and also a man's) body are reduced in intimacy to an object that is sold in adult shops for the perverted enjoyment of others. I see no difference.
 
However, the right to keep and bear arms in a true right granted us by the founders. Prostitution and drugs are not mentioned in those documents.

The thing i don't get is why they weren't mentioned in the documents. Many of our founding fathers have grown and smoked their own pot. I think the reason they didn't include it was because to them it was really no big deal. And honestly it shouldn't be a big deal, you can cause more harm to yourself from taking drugs that a physician has prescribed to you.

Back on topic, i do think it should be legalized. I mean seriously porn is legal, and really what difference does it make if it's being filmed and distributed. I see prostitution as a private viewing of a pornographic movie.
 
Look, your founding fathers didn't use electricity, so that mean you don't use it? :D
They are dead along time lol. Move on.
Hell our "founding fathers" are barely dead and they don't get brought into a single political conversation :p
 
Look, your founding fathers didn't use electricity, so that mean you don't use it? :D
They are dead along time lol. Move on.
Hell our "founding fathers" are barely dead and they don't get brought into a single political conversation :p

You tell liddle porky there shadowninty.....:p

Jeezus...the amount of times I heard our Politicos (Irish) talkin outta their asses about this Blueshirt, or that Provo, or IRA this and that RIRA/CIRA/UVF/UFF/UDA.......

......and you know it still goes on in NI/6 Counties/Ulster/Fourth Green Field

.....whatever yer havin yerself.

You know there is loads of conversation here still about De Big Fella(Mick Collins....from Cork....dead since 1921)....and The Wind that Shakes the Barley......and all that stuff.

The point is, we in Ireland have not moved on either :D

And.....I wish we would....honestly!!! I do.....

BTW, I like the new Avatar....what is this Banned stuff
 
Ah bleaurgh Danny, we don't bring in Collins when talking about civil partnership :D

And shur what with FF getting just 20 seats .. i think we have :p
 
Ah bleaurgh Danny, we don't bring in Collins when talking about civil partnership :D

And shur what with FF getting just 20 seats .. i think we have :p

Hi sn....u OK!!

Talkin about De Big Fella....U mean Civil War or Civil Partnership.....???? anyway, how can any War be Civil(ized)....

I agree MaFFia...ting of de past...going going gone ;)

u no what i mane..we have seen it all

bettcha de Yanks dunno what we talkin bout....

I am d/ling Ubuntu Mint for usb drive atm....gotta try this out....you recommend sumtin else?

I mean genuinely, cure me from this M$ Windoze obsession...
 
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