Why not legalize prostitution?

Guys why do you bother arguing in threads that will only be sealed forever the moment Styphon notices that something in the Palace is actually alive

All of the arguments are wrong anyways.

Human trafficking is only marginally impacted regardless of legalized prostitution. A black market for sex slaves will always exist.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

All of the arguments are wrong anyways.

Human trafficking is only marginally impacted regardless of legalized prostitution. A black market for sex slaves will always exist.

Arguments are not wrong, you just can't infer meaning to save your life. The point here being that in legalized sex houses, it would be damned hard to use illegally procured Taiwanese girls to service the men, due to the institutionalized nature of it. Human trafficking doesn't stop due to legalized prostitution, but legalizing it sure as hell doesn't have to hinge on the destruction of the sex slave pipe line.



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Looks like somebody's being serious in the Political Palace.

Your posts seemed to attempt to convey the idea that legalized prostitution would make it harder for human traffickers.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Looks like somebody's being serious in the Political Palace.

Your posts seemed to attempt to convey the idea that legalized prostitution would make it harder for human traffickers.

Internets. Serious business. Etc.

Also, yeah, upon re-reading them I can see how it comes across that way. Not what I meant to convey, though. Moreso that legalized prostitution makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, for LEGAL brothels to use cheap mexican sex work labour.

There would be little reason for them to do so as well. It's not like a brothel madame is under the same competitive pressures as a bacon dog vendor.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

There would be little reason for them to do so as well. It's not like a brothel madame is under the same competitive pressures as a bacon dog vendor.

Quite.

I'm trying really hard to formulate a A tastes better than B joke here, but just assume I mad some snarky comment about flavour and product placement and we'll just go on living our lives.

Food for thought: Sold as a sex slave in Europe - June 2001: SEX SLAVES: Europe's trade in women - MSNBC.com

There's a small bit specifically about Amsterdam towards the end of the article.

It's not mentioned in this article, but Amsterdam has shut down a significant part of the red light district because of massive corruption. Perhaps that's an argument about how a government can take steps to improve conditions when prostitution is legal, or perhaps it highlights problems inherent to the industry.

Originally Posted by Watts

3. Making sex a legalized commodity is a mistake.

All sorts of unintended consequences would result. Just watch me or some other dickwad slap down as many patents and copyrights as they can once sex becomes a legally recognized commodity.

Think about what companies like Monsanto have done for agriculture.

No one is marketing stem cells you inject into your dick to make it swell and glow green. What are you talking about? And why wouldn't someone have patented any invention already, to corner the rest of the world outside the US? Fucking IRAN has prostitutes ("temporary wives") so it's not like there's no market out there...

This thread is so American.

Originally Posted by RainMan

I think it's sadder that a bunch of men in suits can determine what women can or can't do with their bodies.

Interestingly, this is what prostitution often is!

I am a conservative. I see nothing really wrong with prostitution. I am sorry if someone has already said this, as I am far too lazy to read all that crap that people wrote. Why is it we can pay people to have sex with EACH OTHER... and TAPE IT, but we can't pay someone to have sex with you and NOT tape it. As long as there were not a lot of hookers walking the streets at night, and they had their own 'houses of ill repute', screw it, let them make a living however they deem necessary.

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I would also like to add (without using the edit button for my previous post) that prostitutes make excellent firewood, as do homeless people.

I read an interesting book, the end of faith by Sam Roberts.

He argues that drugs are illegal only because it distracts people from praying and religion. The best proof of that: a legal kind of pot (i can't think of the name) is now on sale in Canada, but not in the US. It gives, so was I told, the same buzz as ordinary pot BUT contains not THC, the illegal substance in ordinary marijuana.

For prostitution, I believe it is the same case. The state wants to regulate mores to save the (inexisting) souls of its citizens.

One of Pierre Trudeau rare intelligent quotes was ''The state has no business in the nation's bedroom''. We should keep that in mind: what goes between CONSENTING adult, be there money involved or not, is no business of the state