Legalising Prostitution?????

I was inspired by that song by City High - remember a few years ago they had a single called "What Would You Do?" I think the chorus went something like "What would you do if your son was at home, crying all alone on the bedroom floor, 'cos he's hungry and the only thing you can do is sleep with a man for a little bit of money..."

Suppose someone seriously felt as though they were at a dead end and that was their only way to make a livng?

It definitely is complicated, I would like to see everyone who works as whatever to get taxed, but as Ushgarak brought up earlier: drugs. Don't want any drugs flying around, dealers getting taxed?!

I think test-eating pet foods is sick.. But some people still do it as a job. Yuck.

Yeah, a real headache this one.

will in this case we have a modern day test case belgium...

Originally posted by Fire
will in this case we have a modern day test case belgium...

Maybe I'll consider a career in Belgium....

Not to do with prositution.

Originally posted by Asami
Maybe I'll consider a career in Belgium....

Not to do with prositution.

blast...had my hopes up for a minute there...

Originally posted by BackFire
blast...had my hopes up for a minute there...

But maybe as a Madam 😄

keeping it illegal means that the gov't doesn't condone prostitution....it's a moral issue thing

not another one of these threads *slams head on keaboard*

absolutely NOT! Prostitution is another form of exploting women! Girls are trick into beliving that prostitution is the easeist way to make money and if It was up to me, I would have those animals that exploit them thrown in jail! By that I mean PIMPS! prostitution should be ilegal!

So...I'm not supporting the pimps or anything, but it's not the hooker's fault? At all?

I am not for legalizing prostitution. It's demeaning and not natural. If you believe as I do, sex was created for making babies. Sure, it's fun every once in a while, but regardless, paying for it is NOT right. Giving it for money, just the same is NOT right.

👆 right!

Its not that simple as in 'yes' or 'no' answers...

there are good and bad points to both arguments...

Originally posted by Xena fan
absolutely NOT! Prostitution is another form of exploting women! Girls are trick into beliving that prostitution is the easeist way to make money and if It was up to me, I would have those animals that exploit them thrown in jail! By that I mean PIMPS! prostitution should be ilegal!

Xena... Nobody is forcing these women to be prostitutes... It's their decision to make...

Anyways, this is an interesting issue. Though I do think women who do it are a little odd, I almost pity them in a way. Society looks down on them like the scum of the Earth. They're just trying to make a living the only way they know how. I'm undecided as of yet on this one.... I keep going around in circles--on the one hand, there would be too much of it going on if it was legal, but I think that they should be protected by the law to some extent, only that would mean government intervention, which couldn't happen unless it was legal...

Taking money for sexual services is not actually illegal Asami, soliciting, advertising and offerring said services is illegal. It is also illegal for a 3rd party to earn money from said services ie a madam or a pimp etc.

Because I believe in finding a woman to love, I would never, ever condone anyone who believes that prostitution is acceptable in society.
The very concept of paying a strange woman to satisfy sexual needs is really disgusting and it should stay illegal.

Let's remember that MEN also sell themselves, not just WOMEN.

I would go for yes, prostitution was, is and always will be here. you can't change that

so, instead of keeping it illegal and therefor creating a very hazardeous envirement for the girls/guys in the bussiness, where they get transported from poor countries under fals promises and such, with legalising the stuff, you can openly control and check the envirement, get the girls or guys to do medical tests for any deceases and such and have a look on the condom use too

in other words, if you make it legal, imho, it would be much safer for the visitor: safe sex and for the ones in the job cause there is now control and them getting exploited will have a high chance of stopping

Originally posted by Asami
Let's remember that MEN also sell themselves, not just WOMEN.

But the same applies to both-it doesn't change my opinion about it.

There are countless ETHICAL ways for the regime to economise to accomdate student tuition fees. ie, alot of projects that the ruling classes squander taxpayers money on are unethical, take just one example; their funding of Al-quaeda and other such terrorist groups.

This is a bit like the legalising drugs thread. I don't like the idea of prostitution at all, but I know that it has been legalised in Australia, and as a result, there is no (or less) illegal prostitution and the controlled prostitution carries fewer risks of STDs etc because of greater hygiene checks. However, anyone visiting a prostitute must have seriously low self esteem 😘