Should prostitution be legal?

should prostitution be legal?

  • yes

    Votes: 166 87.8%

  • no

    Votes: 7 3.7%

  • maybe

    Votes: 10 5.3%

  • on planet X all we do is screw.

    Votes: 6 3.2%
  • Total voters
    189
andyandy said:
"I wouldn't want my daughter to be a prostitute!"
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And I don't want mine to become one either but if she did, I would want it to be as safe as possible for her. And seeing as how prostitutes are all someone's daughter or son, I think it is high time this was done.
 
The Atheist said:
I know that feminists are generally anti-legality of hookers as they feel the women are always being degraded by prostitution. I suggest they meet some career hookers. I know a couple of long-term, very well-adjusted hookers who are both pros (in every sense) and mothers, who would punch the teeth in of a feminist who tried to them they were being manipulated by men. Then, they'd casually explain how they hold the whip hand [sometimes literally] at all times. Who is exploiting whom? Who cares? Between consenting adults, the thought of prostitution being illegal is absurd, to me.
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If I recall correctly, the feminist movement was actually started by prostitutes.
 
Lonewulf said:
Yes, absolute anarchy, the entire government will collapse, and everyday people will go in and buy marijuana because, after all, that's what we're all like, and everyone's into it.

There will be collapse, and people will wander the streets with shopping carts, the destroyed dishevelled cityscape with pitted buildings lying around them. And they will look back to today and say, "Why? WHY did we allow such a HORRIBLE substance to be available? OH DEAR LORD WHY?!"
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Duuuude, chill! Apparently I forgot my smilie! My anarchy statement was actually a paraphrase of an 80s teen movie that you are too young have seen first-run, you little whipper-snapper you!

Lonewulf said:
Run down to the store and pick up a barely addictive substance? If it's addictive at all?
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You have missed my point entirely. I am not talking about addiction at all. I am talking about impairment.

Lonewulf said:
I mentioned that the government could regulate marijuana if it was legalized. Did that go unheeded?
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Rawr! Put your claws back in!


Lonewulf said:
1) I never stated that more people wouldn't end up smoking it. But I do not agree with your "anarchy" statement. Marijuana was once legal, and quite frankly it was not the anarchic post-apocalyptic dystopia that you envision, where millions lay dead from that horrid evil substance and everyone runs amuck, totally disrupting everyday American life with good ol' apple pie.

2) If it's regulated, it's not as harmful nor as potent, if the government chooses to force it to be non-harmful nor potent. If it's legal, people will buy the legal kinds instead of the illegal kinds, out of convenience and a desire to not be arrested, even if it's weaker or different.

Pardon me if I don't see the big deal here.
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Well, despite your in-your-face attitude, you make some very good points. More people would probably partake, but if regulated it would likely be less impairing than the potent stuff that is out there today. Groovy.

Lonewulf said:
As for prostitution, I think that it should be legalized. But then, there might be anarchy, where everyone wants to have wild orgies of sex, and we'll look at a pitted desert landscape of society and go, "WHY?! Why did we decide to legalize prostitution?!"
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Yeah, okay, that was cute! If prostitution was legalized, I wonder if there would be a market for prostitutes for women. Very intriguing.
 
Prostitution is pretty much legal in Australia, which, in my opinion, is a good thing. There's really no good reason for it to be illegal.

Cheers,
TGHO
 
Dr Adequate said:
There already is, so I'm guessing "yes".
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I guess I've never really thought about it except for the rich women who hire young men to escort them around town and take care of their "needs" because their husbands are too old or too busy to do so. I don't see straight men parading up and down our avenue where the female hookers hang out in my fair city.

I can just imagine it now: "Hey, Cindy, what are you going to do tonight after work?" "Well, I am going to head over to Boy Toys R Us and get hooked up and then maybe go home and watch a movie!" :)
 
Happens more often than you think, Sam. There are a couple of big brothels in Sydney whos entire clientele are women, and most of the staff are guys.

Cheers,
TGHO
 
The Great Hairy One said:
Happens more often than you think, Sam. There are a couple of big brothels in Sydney whos entire clientele are women, and most of the staff are guys.

Cheers,
TGHO
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Wow, maybe I need to book an Australian vacation! ;) I bet Viagra has definitely been a boon to that industry.

So to anyone who lives where prostitution is legal, how much does a visit cost? I wonder if it is more or less than a place where it is still illegal.
 
The Great Hairy One said:
Prostitution is pretty much legal in Australia, which, in my opinion, is a good thing. There's really no good reason for it to be illegal.

Cheers,
TGHO
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I have a slight problem with the act itself...but that is probably because of the insane lifestyle that goes with prostitution these days.

But then again, I puke when I see two gay guys making out, and I still think gay marriage should be legal.

Oh well.
 
SamanthaMc said:
Wow, maybe I need to book an Australian vacation! ;) I bet Viagra has definitely been a boon to that industry.

So to anyone who lives where prostitution is legal, how much does a visit cost? I wonder if it is more or less than a place where it is still illegal.
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http://www.dailyplanet.com.au/content2/index.html

That's the price page for a larger brothel in Melbourne (it's SFW). If you do a google search, you'll come up with dozens of websites all over. Try "Kings Court" in Sydney for one.

Cheers,
TGHO
 
To paraphrase George Carlin, Why should something you can give away for free be illegal if you sell it?

So yes, I'd legalize it in a heartbeat.

However, my fear is that there will be a demand to regulate* it to make sure that it conforms to health standards, creating "sin taxes" to pay for the regulation, thus making it too expensive to do business (or the hooker and the John) unless you're charging $10,000 per "party." Don't forget that you can use zoning laws to keep it in the nastier parts of town (just like sex shops and strip clubs), creating further disincentives for the average sex worker.

While prostitution should be legal, a lot of things have got to change before it will work here. Namely American's have got to shed their collective sexual prudery, and our governments need to stop being greedy, controlling, bastards playing on said prudery to squeeze more money out of us and/or meddle in our lives.

Sadly, neither is likely to ever happen.

*I'm not opposed to government making sure that prostitutes are using birth control and are STD-free. I'm just concerned that the government will make it more expensive and inconvenient than it has to be.
 
SamanthaMc said:
I can just imagine it now: "Hey, Cindy, what are you going to do tonight after work?" "Well, I am going to head over to Boy Toys R Us and get hooked up and then maybe go home and watch a movie!" :)
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At least they'd be more honest than what passes for most "relationships."

This is how marriage works: In exchange for intercourse once (maybe twice) a week, a guy has to buy a woman a ring, a house, a car, and pay her bills, When she get's tired of him she, the courts will award her half of what the poor sap owns, then he'll have to pay her monthly to support her and then some if she popped out kids.

If that is the state of affairs, then I'd rather rent sex than buy "love."
 
Azure said:
Taxed like Hell!
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For what purpose? To pay for the regulation of the act (i.e. condoms, birth control pills, and STD checks), or do you think the tax code should be used to disincline people from acts you don't like by artificially driving up the price?
 
It's interesting that in, say, California, it's illegal for one consenting adult to pay another for sex, but it's perfectly legal to pay 12 people to have all kinds of raunchy freaky sex, as long as it's on camera and you're producing a video that will be sold.

Does anyone know how the porn laws work in the U.S.--is it only legal in some states to produce porn? Couldn't one hire a prostitute and put a camcorder on a tripod and say that you're making porn, not engaging in prostitution?

The U.S. loves it some hypocrisy.
 
clarsct said:
Well, if you look at Griswold v Connecticut and Lawrence v Texas,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
respectively, it seems that the Supreme Court has issued verdicts that protect the right to privacy in the bedroom.

Any reason this would NOT extend to Prostitution?
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It shouldn't, but I wouldn't be so quick to look to Lawrence for support. Recently the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld an Alabama statute banning the commercial sale of sex toys, saying that there is no fundamental right to privacy regarding them.

The court ruled that recent US Supreme Court decisions striking down anti-sodomy laws, like the Lawrence decision, didn't apply since this case was about commerce rather than sex.

Source: http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=19668

So, in other words, the instant money changes hands, it's no longer protected by the Constitution. I guess that Freedom Of The Press is null and void since I have to buy books, magazines, and newspapers too. Of course, it would take a higher court to give the final say in the matter. However, this is the same bunch who cited the commerce clause as reason for a reason to ban medical marajuna. I wouldn't hold me breath that nine old farts (a large portion of them being bible beaters) will consider a libertarian interpretation of Lawrence to defend prostitution... or dildos for that matter.
 
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