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Ok, we've all heard a discussion about whether marijuana should be legal or not, but that isn't what this board is about. Forget marijuana, that's a different board. This board is about prostitution.
Should it be illegal? Should it even be looked down upon? Why, as George Carlin says, is it illegal to sell what its perfectly legal to give away? Is stripping a form of prostitution?
In my opinion it shouldn't be illegal. If it were legal, it would be a lot less dangerous. Granted, some of it would still be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as it is now. I see no reason that it is illegal, what purpose does it serve?
Give me your opinions, and if you mention marijuana, I will be very disappointed.
I appologize for the title, don't know how it got messed up.
I think it makes it cool. L. haha! As to making it legal I say why not?
Though I seriously worry about the mental/emotional state that would lead someone to want to give their body away like that, or in this case, to sell it, it is their body, and they should be allowed to do what they want with it.
Oh, and i should add, the mentality that would make someone want to pay for what they could get for free. Why would you do that? But as far as legality, I guess both are personal choices, to sell, and to buy. I personally happen not to agree with either one.
Sure, why not--as long as it were regulated (the health of the ladies and condoms to protect them from the unhealthy guys.
Government should not legislate morality.
End of sentence!
Bob
Agreed. though I don't agree with such behavior myself, I don't think it should be up to anyone to decide that people cannot do it.
If it's a way for the emotionally unsupported to make money... why not?
Prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada. This Wikipedia article appears to have been written by someone opposed to legalized prostitution, but nevertheless, there is some interesting info here:
Prostitution in Nevada
Of course, Wikipedia isn't a reliable reference source, but if you take it for what it is, there are some interesting points made.
I tend to lean toward a preference for legalized prostitution with regulation to insure the safety of everyone involved, including the women who work as prostitutes. I'm not a fan of government imposing morality on me. I am opposed to prostitution personally, but I think it's up to the individual to decide whether to participate in such an activity. It's going to happen, whether it's legal or not, so I say let's at least take steps to ensure that people are safe and women aren't being abused.
an interesting read.
Why do you call them the emotionally unsupported? Isn't it entirely possible that a woman would choose that life if it were safe? After all, you can make a lot of money doing that.
Besides, couldn't it be argued that any woman, or person for that matter, who gives something for a relationship, is prostituting themselves? If you buy a girl a drink in order to impress her, hoping she'll come home with you and sleep with you, how is that any different if you replace the drink with a 100 dollar bill? Or if a woman stays at home while her husband goes to work and pays for everything in her life, how does she repay him but with sex. How is that not prostitution?
I agree that it should be legalized, but regulated for safety reasons. If all goes well it brings pleasure to at least one person in the relationship, possibly both, and brings money to another. Some people find it wrong for a variety of reasons, but I say it's between a man, his conscience, and the prostitute, and if the man is married, a man and his spouce.
It is a public survice. I don't know why you'd pay for something you can get for free but I still see no harm as long as it is properly regulated.
Prostitution shouldn't be illegal, but the international sex trade and pimping should be a capital offense.
Prostitutes are the bottom rung of the sex industry and, when pimped or bought and sold, are subjected to slavery by the traders and pimps.
IMO the only reason we don't manage the situation this way now, is that prudes and moralists are weak-willed, high-minded man-boys who consider it more virtuous and heroic to take down a defenseless and unarmed woman of five-foot-two, rather than go after a six-five pimp with a vest and an AR15.
prudes are weak first, and second mmasquerade that weakness as virtue usually against the defenseless bottom run of whatever industry they're allegedly fighting. If the master-slave aspect of the industry were eliminated, by terminating pimps and international sex traffickers, you'd end what's most dangerous in prostitution.
So how would we punish the pimps and say prostitution is okay? It seems like you'd run into hypocritical conflicts. Not disagreeing by the way. :)
Is it not possible a prostitute, or group of prostitutes, could function successfully without a pimp? Seems the only change would be fewer beatings and more money for them. One could justify it easily: Selling oneself is fine. Selling other people amounts to slavery as defined by the U.S. Constitution ... Pimps are the ones typically involved in the trade of minors, illicit arms markets etc. Women for them is just another resource.
Well, I think it probable that someone would still control the group of prostitutes. However, if they were beaten or abused by this person, they would be able to go to the police for help; which they can't do now. Or, and this is just wild thinking, there could even be a prostitute's union.
Basically, it would be a lot safer if it were legal. Someone would still have control of the group, or own the brothel, but it would be a more businesslike, and less slaverylike situation.
A prostitutes' union sounds entirely conceivable to me. You're right: legal protection would settle a lot of problems created by the black market.
In an ideal world, anyone who would seek sex for free would get it and not have to resort to paing for it. This is a nice idealistic theory. In the real world, this is not true. In order to get free sex you still have to be considered worthy and some people are not considered worthy for any combination of reasons, so much as it might puzzle you, they'll have to resort to paying. Might as well legalize it so prices could be regulated as well as the health of those who are offering their services.
I have seen, on a few tv shows where they interviewed high end prostitutes, that often it isn't about the sex at all. Its a guy who isn't getting listened to at home, or who doesn't feel appreciated, so he goes to a women who will do all that. Granted its all acting, but so what?
How could you possibly consider a stay-at-home wife a prostitute just because she doesn't bring home a paycheck? I know this isn't really on topic but now that you mentioned it, I feel that it is safe to say that a woman who stays at home cleaning house and raising babies works the equivalent of a full-time job or more. So unless she did absolutely nothing at all but lay around and wait for her husband to come home with the money and lay on her back ready to give him sex, it's disgusting to suggest that because she gives him sex she is prostituting herself. if she does what any average housewife does.. clean the house, cook his meals, wash and iron his clothes, and care for his children.. in short keeping the household together while he works outside the home, how could this be considered prostitution?
On a different note, I don't really get why prostitution is illegal. I too agree that it's a shame that somebody has to stoop down to such levels, but a person does have a right to do what they want with their body.
Because, as brutal as this is to say, without her husband, she wouldn't have a house to clean. Now, I'm not including mothers in this because she would have responsibilities to someone other than her husband. However, for a stay at home wife, she has responsibilities to herself, and to her husband. She owes her husband for a house, a bed, her clothes, pretty much everything, because he pays for it. She pays him back by cooking his meals, keeping his house clean, and giving him sex. That makes her a maid, a cook, and a prostitute. And I am not for one minute saying that any of that is a bad thing.
The word prostitute in that sentence sounds offensive because we think of prostitutes as offensive things. We don't like them. I, on the other hand, think of the root word, the verb, not the noun, and realize what it actually means. Putting yourself at the mercy of another person is prostituting yourself. If your a wife who stays at home and doesn't support herself, your at the mercy of your husband. Same for if your a husband who stays at home and doesn't support himself.
Prostitutes are often hired just because people find it easy to talk to them. So you see it is not all sex. It is selling survices which range from talking to someone to having sex and everything in between. I guess it would be like paying for friendship. Sad? Yes indeed, but there you go.
Many people pay for friendship and call it therapy also.
That's true, and not only is that legal, but you have to be certified to provide such services when you can just get advice from your friends for free, and those people actually know a little more about you. OK. Rant over. I digress.
Are we knocking therapy. Lol. The point is prostitution has been made taboo because of the sex trade. That is why it is not legal.