Why is prostitution illegal?

No, no, no. Let's call those horsecorts instead. You can pay to spend your time with the corpse, and then, you might choose to have sex with it. Thank heavens we don't actually need to say that sex is part of what you pay for! Whew!
 
Belz... said:
No, no, no. Let's call those horsecorts instead. You can pay to spend your time with the corpse, and then, you might choose to have sex with it. Thank heavens we don't actually need to say that sex is part of what you pay for! Whew!
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That's a great idea!! It gets around the illegalness of it and it keeps those painted up, scantily clad dead horses off the street! :D
 
JFrankA said:
That's a great idea!! It gets around the illegalness of it and it keeps those painted up, scantily clad dead horses off the street! :D
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Unfortunately, a dead horse will not be able to make "outcalls" by itself, being dead and all, and thus will need either a barn/brothel in which to work or a pimp/jockey to drive it around to its clients. And I am sure the animal rights activists will point out that the dead horse is being exploited.

Boy, that horse has only been dead for a day and it's already starting to smell...
 
dann said:
I was never an advocate of the Soviet (or the Cuban, for that matter) system, so what is the point of your anecdotes? What I have been able to find on the internet seems to indicate that prostitution exploded after the market economy was introduced in the former USSR and its allied countries.
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The point of my anecdotes is that there is no reliable statistics on prostitution (or on crime, for that matter) in Soviet Union, or in Cuba before Soviet collapse. Not only Brezhnev's and Castro's governments would never publish honest statistics on such things, it is very unlikely they ever bothered to collect it. Why would they need it? Much easier to just publish entirely fictitious very low numbers and be done with it. In fact, none of the links you provided give numbers on prostitution in Soviet times -- only post-Soviet. For very good reason -- the numbers do not exist. So all your links prove is that after Soviet collapse prostitution in USSR and Cuba came into open -- not that it suddenly exploded in numbers.
It also seems to confirm that poverty is what forces most prostitutes to take up the profession.

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Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union


http://scholar.google.dk/scholar?hl=da&lr=&q=prostitution+"Soviet+Union"&btnG=Søg
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My point is that poverty was universal in USSR and even more so in Cuba, and so were ways to get around it. Including prostitution. You seem to claim otherwise. Which contradicts your line "I was never an advocate of the Soviet (or the Cuban, for that matter) system."
 
Prostitution is being made illegal 01.01.09 in Norway, but only for the (males) ones purchasing the service. I think they are rationalizing it by thinking it will decrease suffering of trafficking-victims and those forced into it involuntarily. I do not agree illlegalization is the way to go, as it only provides a perfunctory and not-thought-through "solution". It will still occur, only more subtly.

What I think would be ideal, is state-governed brothels, where prostitution can happen in controlled forms, with regular check-ups so as to avoid diseases. However, that would be too rational to be considered. The social stigma is too great still, nobody thinks about the circumstantial events that may have led them into the profession.
 
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