Prostitution: Yes or No

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

The government has no right to tell consenting adults what they can and can't do in the bedroom. If you think prostitution is immoral then don't do it.

 

[noxibox]

The whole thing will be regulated. Lower infection rates, better control of working conditions, tax will be paid and it will be much harder to hire minors.

Married men who go will go anyway.

Prostitutes wont want to go for forced medical check-ups

They will if they want to be licensed which will come with protection for both parties.

or pay tax.

Most already effectively pay very high taxes. Just as the tax on drugs currently goes to organised crime, so does the tax on prostitution.

It is not acceptable

A arbitrary moral judgement.

Next drugs will be legal

Legalising drugs will be a good thing all round.

we will just decay as a society.

Yeah, yeah, it's the beginning of the end. Next we'll have cats and dogs living together in harmony.

 

[Serqet]

Not saying it's the beginning of the end. I just worry about the state of the world when we don't seem to think sleeping around is wrong.

 

[noxibox]

and its effects on a woman - because they are overwhelmingly women - are rarely if ever positive.

Sounds a lot like being a receptionist or, worse, a PA. Why are personal assistants even legal?

enabling a still thriving underclass of invisible street workers.

So basically you're in favour of harming all prostitutes because under legal conditions there would still be some harmed. Essentially the same warped logic of drug prohibition.

And the trade fuels child prostitution and drug cartels, there are explicit links.

Then present your evidence of legal, regulated prostitution fuelling these things? Show that these things are specifically caused by the legal status and would not exist if it were illegal.

 

[metalcore]

Its the oldest profession and it can never be stopped. There are more benefits to it being legal than illegal.

The government can seriously benefit from the tax, and girls can be forced to have checkups which would make it safer for the clients. As for underage girls getting lured in, its worse now that its illegal because nobody is monitoring it. If its legal then a pomp ombudsman can be set up to monitor it.

Obviously from an ethical and religious point of view it seems like a no no, but remember its always existed.

Also the clients will choose... If the prostitutes don't want to be tested or registered, the clients will boycott them so its not like they have a choice.

I havent used a prostitute but a friend enlightened me to "punting". Theres another interesting local forum where people who use the services share info and views on all of this...

 

[Mila]

I want to change my vote to yes. I'm going to make some moola!!

 

[killadoob]

I do not believe for one second that all prozzies are subject to rape, murder and drugs.

Look at the citizen look at all the ads there for hookers, now htf can they advertise if it is illegal?

 

[2CentsWorth]

Now benefits of it being legal:

1. Ladies will have protection against attacks, Rape, Murder.
2. The industry can be regulated, meaning: Forced medical checkups, Tax claimed, and the woman be removed from the street into more reputable buildings.
3. These woman will not be used as slaves and could turn out to be a very lucrative business.

1. I don't quite follow the logic here: attacks, Rape, Murder is not condoned in any form. It is illegal to attack, Rape and Murder anyone, irrespective of their career...

2. Forced medical checkups will in all likelihood be illegal (in terms of Human Rights) anyway...

3. I doubt that. Sexual enslavement happens all over the world, irrespective of the legality of prostitution.


I am, however, in agreement that it should be legalised, but for mainly other reasons - such as taxes. Let's face it, it's not going to stop happening, so why not let it be legal and tax it?

 

[noxibox]

1. I don't quite follow the logic here: attacks, Rape, Murder is not condoned in any form. It is illegal to attack, Rape and Murder anyone, irrespective of their career...

The police are known for their disregard of complaints filed by prostitutes. Society looks down on women involved in prostitution so when one gets murdered, raped or assaulted there's an attitude of she had it coming or well she's only a prostitute not a human being. Most importantly how are they to lodge a reliable complaint without admitting what they were doing, opening themselves up to criminal charges?

2. Forced medical checkups will in all likelihood be illegal (in terms of Human Rights) anyway...

Not if your job requires you to be free of certain medical conditions. Insurance companies can require you to take a medical.

3. I doubt that. Sexual enslavement happens all over the world, irrespective of the legality of prostitution.

Maybe so, but when last did your employer threaten to kill you or have you assaulted for trying to leave their employ?