Do you support to legalize the prostitution for service purposes?

Yes, and you might find some pertinent information on this thread.

Legal prostitution? you talking about like Pimps still owning them or running by themselves.?

I support eliminating the criminalization of all victimless crimes. Some say that the people who engage in prostitution are victimizing themselves, and that may be. But it’s their right. As it is, we still have prostitution, but the women are victimized by ruthless pimps who force them into prostitution, often by kidnapping them and getting the addicted to drugs, then take all the money they earn and beat them until they are so scared and worn out they are no longer worth pimping. The women are afraid to go to police because they will be arrested for prostitution. That’s real victimization.

The same goes for drugs. Users may be victims. But legal drugs would cut out the ruthless, murderous drug cartels and free up hundreds of billions spent in the loosing war on drugs and incarcerating users. It would also raise tax revenues on sales of legal drugs. Just a tad of the revenue saved and raised could be put into treatment and drug education and do more good than our endless War on Drugs has ever done.

Eliminate victimless crime. Legalize it. Tax it, Regulate it. Treat those who can’t handle their own freedom when they get themselves into trouble.

I would definitely be for it. It would make appropriate healthcare more available to working girls, help to free them from abusive pimps, eliminate police and court costs for victimless crimes.

Sometimes called the oldest profession, it is not disappearing anytime soon, and legalization allows for taxation of the business [although, like waiting table, there could be a lot of fudge in income reporting] and the enhancement of the nation’s / state’s coffers.

This should also be the way to deal with the marijuana trade. The nation needs that taxable income.

@ETpro, “Some say that the people who engage in prostitution are victimizing themselves, and that may be. But it’s their right. As it is, we still have prostitution, but the women are victimized by ruthless pimps who force them into prostitution, often by kidnapping them and getting the addicted to drugs, then take all the money they earn and beat them until they are so scared and worn out they are no longer worth pimping. The women are afraid to go to police because they will be arrested for prostitution. That’s real victimization.”

Wow, have you seen Shaft?

It won’t happen. People can barely get around to legalizing marijuana.

Legalize it. Enforcing the law is a joke, you arrest the prostitute and not the john as well? (not to mention the pimp). That doublespeak with standards brings the law into contempt. Have licensing, health inspections, that sort of thing. Have it in the open – it is the secrecy that is destructive. BTW, I still think that going with prostitutes should be grounds for divorce.

It has just struck me, that making it all in the open, without any concealment, might just discourage the violence, the drug taking, the trafficking, etc.

Yes, and just like in some places in the world, allow prostitution to be carried out in legalized definite areas within the city. To me, prostitution is a business where both parties benefit, so why not make it legal and allow buyer and seller to do business in a smooth and productive manner?

I think it’s not good when prostitution is made illegal——and the participants have to find unscrupulous and underhanded ways to carry out their dealings in back alleys and even in residential areas where families are. I think “that’s” more dangerous than prostitution itself——when it has “no face” and everything is carried out in a secretive manner, where drug needles and used condoms pollute every street corner, and where there’s the likelihood of prostitutes getting beat up or murdered by “faceless” johns. It’s better to have prostitution legalized and carried out in an “open” way, so as to prevent such things happening.

Yes, I am (although, I’m unclear as to what prostitution for non-service purposes is).

Yes. But I’m probably the wrong person to ask, since I support the legalization of pretty much everything.

@CuriousLoner Nevada has legalized prostitution already, but not in every county. Some other states blatantly ignore or otherwise deal with prostitution. Texas’s Chicken Ranch, of Broadway fame “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” moved to Nevada

Also I would like to add, that in the other thread people stated that it would degrade women.

2 things.

1) If it is still going to happen illegally and we all know that it is far worser that way and that it won’t be stopped.As it stands now it can lead to jail,abuse, STDs, babies, and who knows what else.Can’t tax it, what a waste of police force and money…...So either, way you lose ,but yet you would prefer to keep it illegal? Makes no real sense in the long term view of it.

2)Who says prostitution is only limited to women?

@anartist Well it might come to happen one day. I have a good feeling though not in my lifetime to the full extent it should be.

@ETpro well I was going to answer this thread but you said that so wonderfully I feel I cant add anything of value that wouldnt overlap that :P

You, sir, know alot about prostitution. Hats off to you. I don’t think prostitution, of all sexes, will ever be legalized on a large scale in my lifetime either. State, national or worldwide. I’m really glad in one degree. It is a good balance., Moderation my friend. Good balance makes the world go round.

I always love @ETpro‘s answer to these questions. He somehow manages to organize my curse-ridden thoughts into more professional-sounding ditties.

@bkcunningham No, I never went to see Shaft. I’ve seen the mean streets of LA though.

Yes. So long as it was well regulated and such. Like no diseases and whatnot.

Might as well legalize because I don’t think it will ever be eradicated, until….. women start seeing themselves as something more than a collection of anatomical parts designed for the satisfaction of men. I would wish that all women would have enough self esteem to become engineers, plumbers, nurses, doctors, etc. etc. etc. instead of degrading themselves to the point where they are nothing more than a receptacle for the bodily fluids of men. Then maybe men would stop looking at women in that fashion and they would become better human beings as well.

Only if they make it so people have to pay by credit card. I can see a guy trying to explain his bank card charges to his wife. :D
“No honey. It wasn’t for me. It was for Tom. He doesn’t want his wife to know.”

@Pandora – hehehe, lurve to you!

So this doesn’t get modded I will reanswer the question

Why not but I don’t want my mom, sister or any female relative applying for the job. And let’s face it most prostitutes are female and the males who do advertise are gay.

@rooeytoo Come to think of it, in some countries where it is legal, than underage prostitution has florished. Ok. I take it back.

@Pandora Just like drinking and gambling, other victimless crimes need to be forbidden to minors. That is one area where I would support current laws and continued enforcement. And we should enclude education on the harm that misues of all such activities can bring while the young are still under that umbrella of protection.

@bkcunningham I beg to differ.
stats for countries and legalized prostitution
Half the countries surfveyed have legalized prostitution.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!

Did I get my opinion across?

Check out how other countries are handling this.

I’m for it but I think it shouldn’t be called prostitution. It should be called something else than that or of course the other group of people will be what the…. America allows prostitution, what else, legalizing drinking for 13 year olds?

@lookingforwhy That argument is exactly as absurd as the one that allowing 18 or 21 year oles to drink means you must also allow 13 year olds to do so. That’s rubbish, and you should know better.

@ETpro I said a group of people would think that. Did I say that I would think of something that way? And I was just giving an example here.

@lookingforwhy Ok, but we can’t not do something because crazy people might be crazy. If that was true, I couldn’t live on my own because a crazy person thinks I can’t wipe my own ass (true story).

@lookingforwhy The group that thought such at the end of prohibition was never anywhere near large enough to legalize drinking for all ages. Why would we expect legalizing other victimless crimes to be so different?