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Other than those women that are being used in it? Or those that engage in the activity as a way to make a few bucks to buy drugs? Or the people that get diseases from them? Or the taxpayers that have to pay for the issues caused by all of the above?
Your perception of prostitutes is way off base. I know some and none of them are illegal drug users. Maybe the ones you see on TV roaming the streets and turning tricks for $25 are druggies, but there are a lot that lead an otherwise normal life. Many have a day job and just supplement their income with prostitution. Your neighbor may be one.
I think maybe its a conspiracy. If brothels were legal they would be extremely popular. And, then competition. Less money?
I've heard it was anti-sex feminists behind most of it, with a few pro-feminist males and religious groups backing them up. They are the major force behind those 20 something state attorneys recently getting on the bully pulpit forcing craigslist to close its adult section. They were also behind Rhode Island's new law banning indoor prostitution and are also busy trying to lobby against prostitution in Nevada.
Immorality requires harm to an innocent victim. If both parties consent to the transaction that argument is hard to make.
I just have an incredibly hard time thinking that this is the best way for a woman to make a living, or that any woman actually wants to make a living this way. A lot of time, the victim is the prostitute. That is not going to change if prostitution is legalized.
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Virtually all empirical evidence suggests that if you were to legalize prostitution (and especially if this legalization were accompanied by an overall shift in social attitude toward a more liberal sexual mindset) then the damages and dangers of prostitution would greatly decrease - especially when compared to the continued damages and dangers involved in keeping prostitution illegal.
What empirical evidence is that?
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My thought is for their to be a crime you need a victim. There is no victim in Prostitution. Having said that there should be regulations controlling it...age etc.
Except that the woman is often the victim.
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If prostitution were legal, then more prostitutes could keep most of the money they make, which means they could quickly become financially secure and self-sufficient. As for disease, legalization would, overall, lead to a decrease in disease, due to better practices and more frequent testing. (And BTW, part of legalization could include something like a prostitution version of "no drinking and driving" - in other words, business transactions for sex while either the worker or the client is drunk or high could be illegal. Just a thought to point out ways in which some of the concerns over abuse, drugs, disease, etc. could be addressed just as well, or better, if prostitution were legal.) And, as I suggested earlier, the overall costs to taxpayers would drop if prostitution were legalized.
Like that could be enforced, not!
The rest of your post is pure speculation. Is Nevada rolling in money b/c of legalized prostitution there (in some cities, as I understand it)?
I just have an incredibly hard time thinking that this is the best way for a woman to make a living, or that any woman actually wants to make a living this way. A lot of time, the victim is the prostitute. That is not going to change if prostitution is legalized.
What empirical evidence is that?
Except that the woman is often the victim.
Like that could be enforced, not!
The rest of your post is pure speculation. Is Nevada rolling in money b/c of legalized prostitution there (in some cities, as I understand it)?
Katiana.....and YOUR proof is what exactly? And all women prostitutes are victims??
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