Do you want prostitution legalized?

[serpentdove]

[World's biggest human rights group wants to legalize prostitution by Corinne Purtill GlobalPost London] "The world’s biggest human rights organization voted Tuesday to support the decriminalization of prostitution worldwide.

Amnesty International now joins the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization and other global groups that argue the best way to protect the safety of people who sell sex is to legalize the industry..." Full text: World's biggest human rights group wants to legalize prostitution Lev 19:29, 21:9

 

[Quetzal]

Sure. More tax revenue.

 

[Mocking You]

Sure. More tax revenue.

You've reduced a deeply complex issue that has vexed humanity forever to a few dollars more for the government.

 

[Quetzal]

You've reduced a deeply complex issue that has vexed humanity forever to a few dollars more for the government.

Well, if it is legalized and taxed, it can also be regulated, safer.

 

[GFR7]

No, why legalize immorality? It's encouraging it.

 

[Daniel1611]

Take a girl that is obviously already in a bad situation and give her a criminal record...that will help her.

 

[Tambora]

Do you want prostitution legalized?

Hell no!

 

[Daniel1611]

The prostitution law boggles the mind. If the girl has sex with 100 guys a day for free, it's perfectly legal. If she charges, they all go to jail. There is no way to make sense of this.

 

[Tambora]

protect the safety of people who sell sex

What the hell has gotten into folks?

Let's just let everything be legal so no one will feel any shame at all for their immorality.
I mean, you know, we certainly don't want to offend anyone by saying their actions are shameful.
Give everybody a blue ribbon and tell them they are all winners just the way they are.

 

[Totton Linnet]

The British police has always argued against legalizing prostitution...they do not aggressively pursue prostitution but while it is illegal they know where it is, who they are and what they are doing. In other words it is under control.

If it is legalized it is all over the place...next door to YOU. Schoolgirls will be selling themselves outside the school gates.

C'mon prostitution is the most controlled profession there is, controlled by vice rings. Haven't you ever asked prostitutes about the people who control them.

 

[Daniel1611]

What the hell has gotten into folks?

Let's just let everything be legal so no one will feel any shame at all for their immorality.
I mean, you know, we certainly don't want to offend anyone by saying their actions are shameful.
Give everybody a blue ribbon and tell them they are all winners just the way they are.

Let's either have a Biblical government or an extremely limited one. The satan worshippers, adulterers and homos running the country and voting don't want a biblical government. If we dont have a biblical government, their power should be extremely limited.

I LOL at the government having any moral ground to stand on. They murder babies, murder people in other countries, promote sodomy, steel, kidnap and worship the devil. They have no right to dictate morality to anyone.

 

[Rusha]

Well, if it is legalized and taxed, it can also be regulated, safer.

While it would be something I would advise against, I have to agree, as long as there was an age restriction for anyone under the age of 18.

 

[Tambora]

If it is legalized it is all over the place...next door to YOU. Schoolgirls will be selling themselves outside the school gates.

They'll have a shop inside a Wal-Mart Supercenter before long.

 

[kmoney]

No, why legalize immorality? It's encouraging it.

I don't think legalization necessarily means encouragement. Sometimes you just let people make their own decisions. :idunno:



On topic, the health of the 'worker' isn't a very convincing argument to me. It reminds me of the argument some pro-choice people make about back-alley abortions. That's really not the primary issue. A secondary one, ok, but not primary.

I go back and forth on this issue but no I don't think I'd legalize prostitution. However, I can certainly see the point in what Daniel said about taking someone who is probably in a bad situation and potentially making it worse. The penalties against those who buy sex should probably be worse than for those who are selling it. A prostitute might be doing it to feed her kids. You can't say anything like that for the guy buying it. She can't make money herself, the guy on the other hand....lain:

 

[kmoney]

C'mon prostitution is the most controlled profession there is, controlled by vice rings. Haven't you ever asked prostitutes about the people who control them.

No, no I haven't. :chuckle:

 

[Mocking You]

The prostitution law boggles the mind. If the girl has sex with 100 guys a day for free, it's perfectly legal. If she charges, they all go to jail. There is no way to make sense of this.

It has to do with exploitation, violence, and domination of women, not the sex act.

 

[Daniel1611]

It has to do with exploitation, violence, and domination of women, not the sex act.

And the illegality of it has worked out so well...smh

 

[Mocking You]

The penalties against those who buy sex should probably be worse than for those who are selling it. A prostitute might be doing it to feed her kids. You can't say anything like that for the guy buying it. She can't make money herself, the guy on the other hand....lain:

Prosecuting and/or publishing the names of the johns is something I could endorse as a means to control the problem.

 

[PureX]

Prostitution is both dangerous and abusive. I do not believe it should be legalized.

 

[Mocking You]

And the illegality of it has worked out so well...smh

My point is your comparison between giving sex for free and selling sex is flawed.