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I remember one time I was walking to a friend's house off Parkwood one night. This prostitute started yelling for me to come over there , when I declined , she cursed me out like a sailor. Some of them will actually get mad when you decline their propositions.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think that the "Escort Services" in the phone book are legal. I mean, ok maybe "Paying another consenting adult for her time and then you all deciding what happens from there" maybe ok, but I think we all know what those services are for right?
Exactly- just makes people feel better than using the services of a prostitute.
I can't believe that some people are so surprised that people use prostitutes.They are providing a service and IMO it should be legalised and regulated. Far better for a man or a woman (who for whatever reason needs/wants to have sex or whatever else they can provide) to go and get it safely than go out and pick up a one night stand in a bar and have potentially unsafe sex for free!
Having the government regulate sex workers is putting limits on what consenting adults can do.
If I want to pay for sex with an untested prostitute what business is it of the government?
So where do you draw the line? Myself and lots of other people don't feel enforced flu vaccination is appropriate, because I'll run the risk of getting flu, thank you, but those that write the policies say
'oh, but what if you then pass that on to someone else'-. See the similarity?
Neither do I thank the gvt for allowing people to carry firearms.
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Public health and disease containment. The market for the sort of thing you're talking about (unprotected sex with untested sev worker) is likely very small and made up of people with death wishes anyway. I would guess that most prostitute customers would prefer a tested and protected encounter. That kind of regulation in a legal system would save medical care and enforcement costs. They have a similar system in the porn industry. It's by no means perfect but does help.
I do think, though, that there is a far too relaxed idea about stds in general. Condoms can't protect you from herpes or hpv or even syphilis in some cases. Almost every porn actor has herpes 2 and I would imagine the same for prostitutes. It would be interesting to see a public health study of std transmission in Nevada before and after legalization.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation | Measure B: New STD study refutes porn industry
States that the incidence of STDs in porn stars is much higher than prostitutes in Nevada.The porn stars aren't required to use condoms- and don't by the sounds of it- but they are required to be tested. The prostitutes in Nevada have to use condoms and get tested weekly.
Lets not forget that the incidence of STD amongst the general population is sky high, especially amongst young people.The prevalence of Herpes in the US population is 1 in 6. Don't let's label prostitutes as the sole carriers and cause of STDs-I mean-how could they be -no one uses them
And I hope you don't run around saying condoms don't protect against herpes or hpv- they do offer some protection-way more than nothing at all-if not then the STD rates amongst the prostitutes in nevada would be the same as the porn stars.
I remember one time I was walking to a friend's house off Parkwood one night. This prostitute started yelling for me to come over there , when I declined , she cursed me out like a sailor. Some of them will actually get mad when you decline their propositions.
LOL, I had a similar experience walking that stretch of greenway near Parkwood, well 18th Street. I saw a SUV pulled up next to a woman, whom I suspect was a prostitute and she was yelling at the man in the car. ".....I'm not working tonight" and just cussing and hollering. I kept trying to walk as fast as I can, she called me out from a far and apologized for cussing in front of me.
So where do you draw the line? Myself and lots of other people don't feel enforced flu vaccination is appropriate, because I'll run the risk of getting flu, thank you, but those that write the policies say
'oh, but what if you then pass that on to someone else'-. See the similarity?
Is that a hypothetical or is the government enforcing you to get the flu shot?
Many employers do, because of the risk of passing the flu to others and because they participate in "flu shot challenges"
I was talking about the government not private companies. You asked where I draw the line and that would be one of them.
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