Prostitution in the abstract: What is the harm?

I don't see the harm in prostitution, or anything porno related.

However, I don't believe it should be glorified.

 

It isn't much if any safer. 1st there is the disease factor. Do you really think a woman whose only job skill is spreading her legs is going to stop doing so just because you tell her she has gonorrhea? 2nd when she doesn't she is almost certainly going to be start dealing with any even more unsavory clientele and almost certainly more dangerous.

 

This is a ignorant opinion. Men always pay for sex in some way, shape, or form. Anyone who denies that fact is a moron. More than half the men who have ever been married have paid half of everything they worked a lifetime to acquire for sex.

Prostitution in many ways is cheaper and more honest than the so called normal man / woman relationships.

 

It offends people and thus that persecutes them if they're not allowed to prevent consenting adults from doing things which doesn't harm others.

 

In my state of Queensland in Australia prostitutes have to have medical clearance by a doctor to work. If they don't then the brothels that employ them won't let them work.

 

So they work the streets. And if you think that they don't you're kidding yourself. Oh and how frequently do they check them?

 

And working the streets is illegal.

 

And? Do you really think that stops it? And again depending on the gestation period of the STD if the doc aren't inspecting them nearly daily you're kidding yourself.

 

I am not sure why prostitution is any more degrading to the spirit than working for any other job you hate just to earn money. Note, I am not saying all prostitutes hate thei jobs or that everyone who has a job hates it.

That said prostitution should clearly be legalized and regulated exactly like drugs should be.

 

Prostitution is not against federal law. Rather it is state laws that prevent it from becoming a bustling trade. Only one state in our great nation, Nevada has chosen to legalize prostitution. It's legal in most of Nevada. The state allowed the counties and localities to determine it. Four counties; Clark (which has Las Vegas), Douglas, Lincoln, and Washoe (which has Reno) do not allow it. This is something that you need to work on your state governments to change.

Personally, I live in Georgia and there would be Baptists fainting on every street if the state legislature announced that they were passing a bill to legalize it. Immediately afterward, every church would band together and come up with candidates to unseat those misguided heathens.

 

While I agree that it's obviously wrong that people should have to pay protection money to the state to have sex with each other - this applies to all taxable activity. Should you have to pay the state to grow and sell vegetables? No, but that hasn't stopped them before.

As for the OP, clearly prostitution should be legal, and in my opinion unregulated and untaxed. Fraud should be punished as always, that's all that's needed. If you lie about having an STD or your use of protection, that's horrible. But regulations don't punish fraud, they punish honesty the state dislikes.

 

I didn't (*)(*)(*)(*)ing say that stops them from working the streets. Stop trying to create a strawman.

 

Though woefully brief and inaccurate, at least you tried.

 

Then why mention it's illegal and why keep ignoring the vastly more important part of the equation?

 

You do realize gonorrhea is a treatable disease, right? Once she is diagnosed, she'll be given some meds and in a few days (or possibly weeks) she won't have it anymore.

As for the OP, of course it should be legalized. It's stupid that it's a crime to do something for money that it's completely legal to do for free.

 

I'm not ignoring the most important part. The most important part is the freedom to choose to do with your own body as you wish even if that's renting it out.

 

Why not, if there's no harm in it?

More accurately, anyone who believes it is a misogynist moron.

It's plenty accurate. As for brevity, it hardly makes sense to go into any detail when the respondent signals his devotion to his prejudices from the gitgo.

 

It isn't about human sexuality being "wrong" in modern times, but that even the right can't seem to muster enough Faith to faithfully execute a federal Doctrine and State laws regarding the concept of employment at will, in order to solve simple poverty.

 

In Italy we say that prostitution is the oldest job on Earth. We are not far from reality.

Any civilization has seen a kind of less or more organized, less or more legal, prostitution. It's a market matter: where there is a demand there will be an offer.

Then, it's a social problem to decide of rule it or to leave it in the hands of the organized criminality ...

Regarding the religious condemnation of prostitution, well, it's clear

Leviticus 19:29

But we should remind that a prostitute was spared by God in a certain occasion

Joshua 6

Not to remind Mathew

In my opinion we should make a difference among the women who become prostitute because of necessity and of choice.

Ethically the choice to become prostitute is to be condemned, but if there is an extreme economical necessity and no other alternatives? Today the destiny of a young poor girl would be to become a "tool" to make money in the hands of a not recommended individual ...

 

So self-interest is the only reason for advocating a particular legal regime or regulatory scheme or not? Telling attitude seen commonly among the left.

 

But you didn't answer the question -- should it be a crime?

 

However conversely you do not have the right to spread disease.

 

So you think it should be a crime for consenting adults to exchange money for sex?

 

Should it be a crime to spread disease?

 

Hence the requirement to be tested. Try to keep up.