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Should prostitution be legalized?

Should prostitution be legalized?

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Originally posted by Pawn Qween
Prostitutes don't develop STD's on their own, they are often given to them by their clients - as my earlier post says, maybe the clients should have a clean bill of health before being allowed near these women. The men should be using condoms anyway!
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"Prostitutes don't develop STD's on their own, they are often given to them by their clients"

But hang on, by the same argument, clients don't develop STD's on their own either!
Thus, surely sometimes the client must be given STD's from their prostitute.
This is a bit like the chicken and egg situation:
What came first, the prostitute or the client?

Answers please on a postcard to:

The Client,
Obviously,
As The,
Prostitute,
Does not come.

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Originally posted by reader1107
It drives me nuts that currently it's nearly always the women who gets arrested while the male customers aren't.
In Flint, Michigan they've started setting up stings with female police women strolling the streets dressed as hookers (short skirts, lotsa makeup). Anyways, when a guy stops to ask the girl if she'd like to go out the cops pounce on him and arrest him. But because the jails are full they give him a sitation to appear in court and impound his car. Then they charge $600 for the guy to get his car back.

I don't know how they do that legally, but it's true. They charge the guy $600 regardless of what happens in court. The only good news is that last summer they managed to nail a local high school principal and a local minister. 😵

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Originally posted by reader1107
...I would prefer the money be spent on giving (especially) women and girls at risk other opportunities for their future, such as job skills...
Agreed. Some of 'em can't even give a proper blowjob, for crying out loud. 😛

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Originally posted by arrakis
I say it's time we made it legal so that it can be controlled, taxed and safe.
Agreed.

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Originally posted by arrakis
I say it's time we made it legal so that it can be controlled, taxed and safe.

The woman would be required to maintain a license. In order to keep the license active the woman would undergo a physical examination by a doctor every day.

Here are some sites that have good arguments about this:

The Case for Legalized Prostitution
by Paul Armentano, De ...[text shortened]... /28/lfm270.shtml

Legalized Prostitution
http://www.liberator.net/articles/prostitution.html
Money for nothing chicks for free

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Originally posted by rowpc
Money for nothing chicks for free
You know, that ain't working.

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Originally posted by stocken
You know, that ain't working.
Be the way to go,but it would not work your right:'(

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Originally posted by reader1107
I agree that adult prostitution should be legal. I forget that it's not, because it's such a common practice. If it is to be controlled and taxed, though, then I would prefer the money be spent on giving (especially) women and girls at risk other opportunities for their future, such as job skills, life skills, etc. I also believe that if it's to be reg ...[text shortened]... urveyors and customers of child prostitutes should be severely injured, at the very least.
This is an interesting point. Do you think that prostitution should include an additional tax other than income taxes due to those reasons?

If it's the same tax as for every other profession, then I don't think they should be connected directly (although I would support the measures you propose, except the client ID card which I think would drive a substantially part of prostitution back underground).

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Originally posted by howardgee
"Prostitutes don't develop STD's on their own, they are often given to them by their clients"

But hang on, by the same argument, clients don't develop STD's on their own either!
Thus, surely sometimes the client must be given STD's from their prostitute.
This is a bit like the chicken and egg situation:
What came first, the prostitute or the client? ...[text shortened]... lease on a postcard to:

The Client,
Obviously,
As The,
Prostitute,
Does not come.
It is a bit chicken and egg, I agree. My point was in defence of the prostitutes who are generally regarded as the one who passes the STD. Like prostitutes who have many sex partners, a client may use several prostitutes. Any sensible person would insist on condoms.

I have nothing against prostitution, it's obviously a necessary service or it wouldn't still be going on. As far as legalising it, I'm not too sure it could happen.

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Originally posted by Pawn Qween
As far as legalising it, I'm not too sure it could happen.
It's already legal in the Netherlands (and Germany, right?).

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It's those needle marks you want to look for.
That .. and the sunken cheeks.

Used a lot of working girls myself when I was young .. a long, long time ago in a faraway land.
Joined the Navy at 17 and was stationed in Japan at 18. These girls taught me everything I would ever need to know about sex. Once I graduated from "short timer" to the all nighters they taught me the next level .. the love part.
Hey, I was 18, she was 32 .. I think she mighta played me.

At some point they became human beings as opposed to sperm receptacles.
Took all the fun out of it.
That, and I quit drinking when I was 21 .. same thing, it being legal took the fun out of it.

I was tempted last trip to Vegas though. I was up 2 large and was approached by 2 finearse girls. If you ever wondered where the most beautiful working girls are .. it's Las Vegas IMHO. I would guess that London, Paris, NYC and a few others would contend for that title though.
Where the money is, they will be.

I figured i'd be finished as soon as either of them showed me some skin, so I saved the big money and just gave them a hundred each to spend a hour hanging on me like I was Peter North .. played a little blackjack.

The stud, the jammer .. that's me with the hotties.

That pocketbook personality is one hell of aphrodisiac .. I think the redhead likes me! ... really, i'm convinced. She looked at me and licked her lips.

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Originally posted by rowpc
Be the way to go,but it would not work your right:'(
...and I managed to use part of the same lyrics to show it. 😏






(Because nobody cared to point that out, I had to do it myself. Pathetic! 😞 )

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Originally posted by Remora91
Who are you to say what is immoral when it does not harm anyone besides the participating individuals?
Who is to say that anything is immoral? Your definition of morality seems to be that an activity is OK as long as those who choose to participate harm themselves and no one else. I am sure there are those out there that care little if "innocent" bystanders get harmed in the process as long as they benefit personally. THen again, no man is an island unto himself. If you abuse and harm yourself you will end up negatively effecting other "innocent" people within the society you live one way or another. There is no way around it.

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Originally posted by Remora91
Well, if we create programs and jobs saved for women who choose to leave the profession, it's not exploiting them. And prostitution wouldn't harm society at all if we legalized and regulated it. You used the example in the porn thread of how we don't allow strip clubs in residential areas, and then said what we don't think about is where these people live a ...[text shortened]... with a stripper living next to me. They've got to have a roof over their head too, right?
No. Adult establishments are not welcomed in rural areas because adult establishments have a higher rate of crime in and around those establishments even though they may be legal to run and monitored. As I said before, you are contributing to an negative element within society that contributes to negative activities within that society. You can attempt to limit the negative consequences of such establishments within society by attempting to distance those activities as far away from society as we can get them but in the end you cannot divorce it completly from society altogether merely by trying to distance it from society. Thus having those establishments outside of rural areas is better than having them within those areas, however, having those establishments shut down altogether is better than having them open at all.

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Originally posted by whodey
No. Adult establishments are not welcomed in rural areas because adult establishments have a higher rate of crime in and around those establishments even though they may be legal to run and monitored. As I said before, you are contributing to an negative element within society that contributes to negative activities within that society. You can attempt to ...[text shortened]... owever, having those establishments shut down altogether is better than having them open at all.
Except shutting them down would be in violation of human rights.