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There have been a rash of murders in Detroit of young black women. The police believe that these young ladies advertised their services on backpage. My guess is backpage is about to be eliminated.
Prostitution is illegal and a site that facilitates it is guilty of a crime in my book. Now if we are discussing whether prostitution should be legal that's another matter.
What does that have to do with anything? If alcohol were illegal, there'd be no drinking and driving, right?
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Originally Posted by A&M_Indie_08
If you do it at home, it is mostly safe. Prostitution is a victimless crime unless someone is married.
The "victim" is not a "victim" in the sense that the person affected needs a LAW to protect them.
As if the married person is more of a victim because their spouse visited a prostitute, rather than finding someone willing to have an affair for free.
Perhaps what you want is for the government to make ADULTERY illegal?
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Originally Posted by A&M_Indie_08
Are people really this dense...
Your lack of fundamental understanding between what sort of "victims" are intended or being spoke of when someone says something is a "victimless" crime betrays any justification YOU have to consider anyone else here "dense!"
Because neither of you has an argument.. you assume that someone has "psychological" issues. You know what happens when guys like yourselves get caught and put in the "Johns" section of the newspapers? EVERYONE is laughing at you and calling you losers. the fact that your wife may leave you and your kids grow up damaged is YOUR fault, not mine or the laws fault.
Who the hell cares? What about single guys? Not everyone is married, you know.
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Sorry to break it to you, but degenerates are always going to have to deal with the fact that it will always be illegal and you will always have to look over your shoulders when picking up the ladies of the night
Wrong. There has been serious talk in California about decriminalizing prostitution, and as most people know, brothels are legal in Nevada.
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Have fun with the VD's
If you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to avoid contracting a disease from sex.
The man will still have picked up the hooker regardless of it being legal or not legal. Do we need government protecting us from cheating on our spouses, too?
Right on, better to have it on the internet than blighting neighborhoods with streetwalkers. And yeah, there is going to be crimes above and beyond the prostitution whether the initial communication occurs on the Net or streets.
Funny how Seattle is supposedly oh-so liberal....but they go gaga over this type thing. About as dumb as laying the smackdown on pot-shops.
It is typical Seattle--they are constantly running sex stings of one kind or another, strip clubs, massage joints, web sites, etc. It is invariably justified on the basis of protecting women, children, and 'people of color'--one of the three.
Secondly, by driving the trade further underground, you create the environment for more involvement of minors.
I completely agree with this. Shutting down any one site isn't going to solve anything. It's just going to push the problem further underground. I say it's far better to have a well known site that police can monitor than play "Wack the Mole" as these websites pop up. Sooner or later someone will fill the need, they will create an off shore site that can't be shut down and may not even cooperate with police. Look at Piratebay.org, how many attempts have been made to shut down that site? Dozens and it's still going strong.
America has a out of sight, out of mind mentality. If we don't see it, it's not happening. Hell I got a novel idea, lets remove the word rape from the dictionary. if it there no word for the act, it can't be happening. Problem solved.
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Originally Posted by EdwardA
The My guess is backpage is about to be eliminated.
It is? How? I believe there is something called the First Amendment, Freedom of speech. It's the same amendment that prevents the government for shutting down the producers of adult entertainment (PORN). If Backpage doesn't want to shut down there adult classified section, there really nothing the government can legally do to stop them. True financial pressure can be applied like pressuring companies not to advertise with backpage, but if the figure is correct, they make 33 million dollars a year with the adult classified section alone, they can support themselves just fine without other revenue sources.
And if they do not want 33 million dollars in revenue a year, I'm sure someone else will fill the need and there is a need, 33 million dollar a year need. While it may not be beneficial to society, it's a need just the same. Just like Drug dealers, if there wasn't a need for illegal drugs, they wouldn't be in business now would they.
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