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Prostitution Should Be Legalized

Oldsoul

Oldsoul

Member
4consideration said:
Not me.
There's a lot of stuff in our culture that I could do without. If I'm going for passing laws based upon my personal preference, or what I want -- there'd be no "reality" TV shows, no celebrity gossip channels, magazines, or articles,...boy oh boy, I'm just getting started...there'd be so many things I'd get rid of.

What I want or would do, personally, is not a good basis for establishing laws.


Terrible. I wouldn't like it a bit. Same goes for any of the males in my family. I'd feel terrible about it.


I'm not forgetting anything. It's exactly the point that other dangerous things tend to go along with the sale of sex, that makes it worthy of considering legalizing that activity.

It's not like illegal drugs or murder, both of which ordinary citizens are NOT doing on a daily basis -- because illegal drugs and murder are illegal.

Sex, in and of itself, is a legal act. It is only the sale of it that is made illegal. In that world of the sale of sex, dangerous criminals currently have the upper hand.


I think anyone that is familiar with any particular city can usually identify sections of that city known for drugs and prostitution. It's already present in cities, and is usually common knowledge among the locals.

There is nothing about this topic that makes me think all the other problems associated with prostitution would magically disappear if it were legalized. I think some things wouldn't change. Prostitutes that are not able to sell sex legally because of STD's are still likely to sell sex illegally. Drugs, and the sale of sex in relation to drug use wouldn't evaporate.


I don't know. If prostitution was legalized in more locations, I would see no need for a person to travel to another state just to pay for sex.
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^^^^
Extremely objective..
Thank you!!
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
FearGod said:
By proper raising and a good education, starting at home then school.
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You mean like the one 8th century children got in the world Muhammad "gifted" his followers?
I find secular humanism better.
By "better" I mean more about improving the human situation.
Tom
 
FearGod

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
columbus said:
You mean like the one 8th century children got in the world Muhammad "gifted" his followers?
I find secular humanism better.
By "better" I mean more about improving the human situation.
Tom
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No, i mean the modern education, our recent century.
to teach men and women that such kind of business is a filthy one.
 
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Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
Underhill said:
I'm talking about meaningless gestures like the perception of endorsement you claim. The only thing that matters is the women. Men will always pay for sex. There will always be women willing to take money for sex. Legalizing it simply makes the transaction safer.
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You thinking it is meaningless is your opinion only, as it was my opinion saying it. It is funny you decided to resort to a meaningless comment against it in the first place.

If you are okay with having such a legal job that your family can legally have it, then I guess it is all that matters. Again, such answers are what I've been looking for posting in this thread in the first place.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Jayhawker Soule said:
Legalize it; don't romanticize it. And focus first and foremost on building a society where women have access to decent employment and where the degradation of women is rendered totally unacceptable.
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What about my degredation?

Just a side point on focus. I suspect that you'll find far more posts by men righteously defending prostitution than defending equal pay for equal work.
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I notice that you deliberately avoided addressing the evil of puppy mills.
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Jayhawker Soule said:
Just a side point on focus. I suspect that you'll find far more posts by men righteously defending prostitution than defending equal pay for equal work.
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You'll be wrong.
But with your enormous <ignore> list you won't know.
Jay won't even know I said this because he has me on ignore and has for a long time.
Tom
 
4consideration

4consideration

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Premium Member
I think the issue of whether or not support for legalization might be confused with endorsement may have something to do with different philosophical, or cultural, approaches to determining what should be considered legal behavior.
 
Underhill

Underhill

Well-Known Member
Smart_Guy said:
You thinking it is meaningless is your opinion only, as it was my opinion saying it. It is funny you decided to resort to a meaningless comment against it in the first place.

If you are okay with having such a legal job that your family can legally have it, then I guess it is all that matters. Again, such answers are what I've been looking for posting in this thread in the first place.
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Maybe I worded my post poorly. But it doesn't change what is important. Keeping people safe trumps moral judgements over victim-less crimes every time in my book.
 
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Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
Saint Frankenstein said:
I don't morally support prostitution and I would not want someone close to me to work in the sex industry (except maybe if they wanted to make their own homemade porn and put it out there because they enjoy it; I don't see how that harms anyone). I mostly want it legalized to increase protections for the vulnerable and so that the sex workers do not get punished, when it's the pimps and johns who should be punished, if anyone.
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Yes, I too believe that if the community is fine with the essence of this practice, can moderate it for real and is okay with its own people doing it, then legalizing it would indeed be better for them. I only hope that no one in that community gets no choice but to do that specific job and decides to do it. I feel that specially prostitution among all other jobs is not acceptable to have in this specific case. This is just my feeling, I'm not putting it for debate.
 
Underhill

Underhill

Well-Known Member
Jayhawker Soule said:
Just a side point on focus. I suspect that you'll find far more posts by men righteously defending prostitution than defending equal pay for equal work.
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I would defend equal pay for equal work if that were what women wanted. Equal pay for taking years at a time off for having kids is not exactly the same thing and that is what I hear women complain about. Is the current system fair? Of course not. But then it isn't fair that women are often given leave to spend with their new born kids while men are told they have to work.

I think a fair system would be lovely. But that would leave employers in a seriously bad situation.
 
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