Should prostitution be legalized?

[Jaymes]

Plenty of valid and legal proffesions could be described thusly.

Name a profession that you pay for someone to offer their body for sexual acts. I can't think of any.

While it's not a profession, sperm donors do receive money for masturbating. Should I assume you're for making that illegal as well?

While slavery and prostitution can mix pretty easily, it isn't fair to now make them synonyms.

That's what it is. You pay for their body. For a time you own them. It is short term slavery.

Will you answer my question regarding the massage therapist?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I found some excellent articles available at www.jstor.org

State-Sanctioned Sex: Negotiating Formal and Informal Regulatory Practices in Nevada Brothels by Barbara G. Brents; Kathryn Hausbeck in Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 44, No. 3. (Autumn, 2001), pp. 307-332.

Brents argues with several others that the decriminalization of prostitution throughout the world hasn't achieved its goals:

"In general, legalized prostitution across the world is not an expression of society's acceptance of prostitution but functions to isolate, stigmatize, and render prostitutes invisible (Gibson, 1986; Harsin, 1986; Hobson, 1990; Walkowitz, 1980)"

 

[egroen]

"In general, legalized prostitution across the world is not an expression of society's acceptance of prostitution but functions to isolate, stigmatize, and render prostitutes invisible (Gibson, 1986; Harsin, 1986; Hobson, 1990; Walkowitz, 1980)"

And what are they now, might I ask? Upstanding citizens?

I don't think anyone realistically expects that prostitutes, overnight, will go from criminals to elected head of the PTA board. But they will stand a better chance to get help, be allowed a safer environment and have the chance to leave the work without forever being stigmatized with a sexual crime on her record. And the police will stop having to waste their time with this largely harmless element of society (which has been around since the dawn of mankind, despite our best efforts) and chase after those who are causing real harm to others.

-Erin

 

[Flappycat]

I don't think anyone realistically expects that prostitutes, overnight, will go from criminals to elected head of the PTA board.

I completely expect there to be at least one prostitute who is already the elected head of her PTA board. She just looks very different out of her work clothes.

Decriminalized prostution just means that people don't take moral advice from the clergy anymore. Wait a few more years, and it'll be as good as illegal and harder to get away with.

 

[carcasia123]

i'm one of the slippery slope people...if we legalize this just to regulate it what are we going to legalize next? I do not want to legalize nor legitimize the sex trade.

 

[MaddLlama]

When they repealed the prohibition laws, did the moral fabric of the country fray away into nothing, and every other drug people did made legal too? Legalizing one drug after all could lead us to the slippery slope until all drugs are legal and available in a Rite Aid near you.
Do you support the alcohol prohibition laws?

 

[Crystallas]

Im sick of my tax money being spent on policing violence in the streets. Legalize and Regulate the it. You stay close with your friends, and you stay even closer with your enemy. What a better way to do so, then they can pay their own taxes to fix their problems.

 

[ladyhawke]

Legalize and regulate it....i pay taxes on my earnings why should'nt prostitutes...i think aswell removing pimps from the equation would make it a safer enviroment for those that work in it (but then of course the state becomes the pimp)

 

[kreeden]

Legalize and regulate it....i pay taxes on my earnings why should'nt prostitutes...i think aswell removing pimps from the equation would make it a safer enviroment for those that work in it (but then of course the state becomes the pimp)

The state is the pimp , no matter what profession one is in .