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View Poll Results: Should all forms (with the exception of child) of prostitution be legalized??
Yes 33 86.84%
No 5 13.16%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-27-2009, 12:43 PM
 
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I'll discuss this from a disease standpoint, not legalization.
The topic is legalization. Disease does not obey the law.
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I for one do not believe there has only been one Nevada prostitute with AIDS, and no known cases of customer infection.
If you don't believe it, by all means, look it up.
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STDs are a merry go round: a guy gives them to a woman, gives them to another man, gives them to another woman, etc.
Okay. Point?
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Your post makes it sound like it's all the woman's fault. No method of BC is foolproof, not condoms, not anything!
Now I get it. Carry on.
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Old 05-27-2009, 12:44 PM
 
Location: London UK & Florida USA
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It can take three months for AIDs to be diagnosed in a test. How can you stop it as prostitutes can't keep taking three months of after every "trick". Luckily though, contaceptive condoms can guard against aids.
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Old 05-27-2009, 01:16 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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It can take three months for AIDs to be diagnosed in a test. How can you stop it as prostitutes can't keep taking three months of after every "trick". Luckily though, contaceptive condoms can guard against aids.
Yes, but they're not foolproof.
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Old 05-27-2009, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Central Ohio
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I voted no because of the question.

The question seemed to be should prostitution be federally prohibited.

I say the federal government has no busienss deciding such an issue it is one best left up to the individual states as the framers of our great constitution meant such issued to be.

Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Where the federal government gets into the act is when criminal acts cross state lines or criminals flee one state to another to avoid prosecution for a criminal act.

For the few who might not know prositution is legal in a number of backwater, rural counties of Nevada.

If the question had asked would I be fore state laws prohibiting prostitution then I would support it.
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Old 05-27-2009, 01:47 PM
 
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Yes, but they're not foolproof.
Keeping prostitution illegal has no effect on the performance of condoms.
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Old 05-27-2009, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Southeast
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Luckily though, contraceptive condoms can guard against aids.
No they don't.. Condoms fail more often than you might think. If condoms can fail to prevent a pregnancy, what makes you think they prevent against STDs? Condom or not 'fluids' still mix quite a bit during sex.. Besides, people who have AIDS or other nasty STDs should stay celibate, instead of risking the lives of other people..
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Old 05-27-2009, 01:59 PM
 
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The topic is legalization of prostitution, not the spread of disease.

Diseases are spread through sex, not by state legislatures. If the legalization of prostitution had any bearing on the spread of AIDS, the state of Nevada would be overcome by the disease...but it hasn't been. There would be numerous reports of all the AIDS being spread by legal prostitutes, but there are no such reports.

Mentioning AIDS is a distraction that has no basis in reality for the topic at hand.
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Old 05-27-2009, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Southeast
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The topic is legalization of prostitution, not the spread of disease.

Diseases are spread through sex, not by state legislatures. If the legalization of prostitution had any bearing on the spread of AIDS, the state of Nevada would be overcome by the disease...but it hasn't been. There would be numerous reports of all the AIDS being spread by legal prostitutes, but there are no such reports.
Disease is part of the discussion.

Except NV prostitutes are routinely tested for STDs, are they not? So how could legal prostitutes spread the disease? Why not consider other states where AIDS is much more widespread..?

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Mentioning AIDS is a distraction that has no basis in reality for the topic at hand.
So life threatening diseases are nothing in comparison to being allowed to pay for sex..?
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Old 05-27-2009, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Disease is part of the discussion.

Except NV prostitutes are routinely tested for STDs, are they not? So how could legal prostitutes spread the disease? Why not consider other states where AIDS is much more widespread..?



So life threatening diseases are nothing in comparison to being allowed to pay for sex..?
As someone pointed out, it takes three months post-exposure for an AIDS test to turn positive. During those three months, a lot of people can be infected. It's not just spread via sex, but by other body fluids as well.
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