Prostitution: Should it be Legal?

[shahab6]

The only place I know of where you can legally do it is Nevada (because of Las Vegas). Do people have a problem with it. Should it stay illegal - should it be allowed?

discuss

 

[Peter]

it wouls probably be better if it was legalised. It would cut down on the pimps controlling the prostitutes and also done correctly help minimise the risk of sexually transmitted diseases spread through prostitution.

 

[B33R]

I think everything should be legal. People are grown up enough to make up their own minds.

If they wanna become addicts or prostitutes, then let them. Why should we interfere? If they wanna do it, they're gonna do it whether it's legal or not.

Get some better education in schools about the dangers of everything, better access to support, help and advice whenever they need it; make drugs available through the government and license prostitutes so it's as safe as it's gonna get, and then let people do whatever they want. You ain't gonna stop them, might as well teach them, support & protect them and then let them make their own minds up. It's their body, their mind and their life.

The current system doesn't work and for the most part is pointless. Jail teaches no one, people are still drug addicts and prostitutes and people will always want to do drugs or be prostitutes anyway. Might as well make it safer for them and stop the real criminals, the people behind the bad drugs and forced prostitution. The people behind it who make all the money and encourage or force others into it.

:imho: anyway.

And for the record, I'm not a drugged up hippy, I've never done illegal drugs and I've never sold my body for sex (mainly because no one would want it, but that's another story! )

 

[RJ]

Finally someone I can agree with.

B33R for President! :kickass:

 

[footballfan]

I think everything should be legal. People are grown up enough to make up their own minds.

If they wanna become addicts or prostitutes, then let them. Why should we interfere? If they wanna do it, they're gonna do it whether it's legal or not.

Get some better education in schools about the dangers of everything, better access to support, help and advice whenever they need it; make drugs available through the government and license prostitutes so it's as safe as it's gonna get, and then let people do whatever they want. You ain't gonna stop them, might as well teach them, support & protect them and then let them make their own minds up. It's their body, their mind and their life.

The current system doesn't work and for the most part is pointless. Jail teaches no one, people are still drug addicts and prostitutes and people will always want to do drugs or be prostitutes anyway. Might as well make it safer for them and stop the real criminals, the people behind the bad drugs and forced prostitution. The people behind it who make all the money and encourage or force others into it.

:imho: anyway.

And for the record, I'm not a drugged up hippy, I've never done illegal drugs and I've never sold my body for sex (mainly because no one would want it, but that's another story! )

have you paid to use someone elses body though?

I fully agree with what youve just said, i was going to write somethig similar but youve just summed up what was in my head.

and before you ask me - ive never smoked never taken drugs never sold myself or paid for someone else.

 

[B33R]

Finally someone I can agree with.

B33R for President! :kickass:

Woohoo! President eh?

have you paid to use someone elses body though?

I fully agree with what youve just said, i was going to write somethig similar but youve just summed up what was in my head.

and before you ask me - ive never smoked never taken drugs never sold myself or paid for someone else.

No I haven't. I'm glad I saved you the time of having to write all that down! lol


...and so my Presidential campaign begins!

Don't you have to be American to be President? No problem, I'll just put on an American accent, they'll never know! :tu:

 

[footballfan]

arnold isnt. i think he has it i his sights - so why cant you?

 

[mothproof]

to b33r, wow, you've got quite a following here now.

i fully agree with you.


not that im into drugs or body-selling too (im staple-wire thin, thank you) [hey, wait, everyone's having disclaimers now. hehe], anyway, im ok with drugs and prostitution too. the point is people should have a choice.

it's when people are deprived of better and more-informed choices (the right to better job opportunities, etc), that prostitution becomes a crime. When young women are forced to sell their bodies because they have no better choice, then we got a bad system.



no, im not running for president. i'm all for B33R here.


-chatty newbie guy.

 

[Sabre]

Rob; I think you've summed up my views as well there.

The only problem is that it will never work as many people are too narrow minded to understand that legalising such things is actually making the people involved safer and happier, not making their lives or the world worse.

B33R for president?
Alcohol already runs society over here in the centre of towns, it doesn't need any more influence up top :D

 

[painperdu]

B33R gets my vote. :bingo:

have you paid to use someone elses body though?

Haven't we all? When others perform any kind of work for us aren't they using their body?

It's a matter of perception on how we label things.

 

[Marcvs]

i agree if people want to do something they will do it so let them legalise it!

 

[faisj]

Prostitution has been legal in the Netherlands since January 1988, when it was defined as a legal profession. This legalised status allows prostitutes to have access to the social security system, since 1996 sex workers have paid income tax, and reforms in 1999 gave prostitution the same status as any other form of labour.

Prostitutes are not registered and are not required to get health checks. Pimping and facilitating prostitution is illegal, this also applies also to maintaining a brothel Sex club owners may not hire illegal immigrant prostitutes.

 

[dhscott]

I believe prostitution is legal in the uk so long as they pay tax and do not solicite; and some other legal mojo also.

 

[Humdizzy]

I think anything should be legal as long as people aren't hurting others physically or mentally with what they are doing.

 

[-OutlawBiker-]

And for the record, I'm not a drugged up hippy, I've never done illegal drugs and I've never sold my body for sex

I am, I have and I have.

 

[Peter]

I believe prostitution is legal in the uk so long as they pay tax and do not solicite; and some other legal mojo also.

no it is illegal the police just dont always do anything about it as it is a waste of their resources. It is very hard to prove if someone is a prostitute. The person they are having sex with is hardly likely to admit having sex with a prostitute especially if they are married.

Here in the UK the prostitutes tend to get fined so in order to pay those fines they go straight back out to earn that money through prostitution.

 

[dgridley]

The Feds learned early on that Prohibition didn't (doesn't) work.. better to legalize and regulate vice. Those that indulge can then be somewhat controlled... problem is, I'll bet the biggest lobbyists against legalization are those that profit in some way by illicit trade. You can't outlaw tobacco.. think of all the industries that would be affected (including cancer research).. you can't legalize drugs because you'd put the boys at the DEA out of business.

 

[DN Tycoon]

I think everything should be legal. People are grown up enough to make up their own minds.

In my mind the only thing that should be illegal is those things that protect people from people such as murder, drunk driving, robbery and so on. Having everything become legal would cause chaos across the country 10 fold. It always has amazed me how the government can create laws that clearly protect us from ourselves instead of us from others..like Marijuana how can we be told that we can not grow/smoke something that comes from the earth...I can understand coke, heroin, crack, pcp and others as they are man made. If we are told we need to act like adults then why does the government treat us like kids...how about the seatbelt law..how is the state going to tell you you have to put on your seatbelt or you will get fined...again kids I can understand. We need alot less government and alot more people involved in the communities.

 

[dgridley]

These things are legislated because of money or morality, take your pick. Less government is exactly what we need..

In my mind the only thing that should be illegal is those things that protect people from people such as murder, drunk driving, robbery and so on. Having everything become legal would cause chaos across the country 10 fold. It always has amazed me how the government can create laws that clearly protect us from ourselves instead of us from others..like Marijuana how can we be told that we can not grow/smoke something that comes from the earth...I can understand coke, heroin, crack, pcp and others as they are man made. If we are told we need to act like adults then why does the government treat us like kids...how about the seatbelt law..how is the state going to tell you you have to put on your seatbelt or you will get fined...again kids I can understand. We need alot less government and alot more people involved in the communities.

 

[kemjika11]

we have to legalize it because just like drugs, the forces of demand and supply will forever be there, and make it enjoyable for customers, and profitable for sellers. The economics just shatters the power of the opposition. Look at the DEA and FBI. with their billions of dollars budgets, they still cant' shut down coke, weed, prostitution, illegal immigrants networks. They want us to beleive they can "win", but the economics proves it will always be there.