Poll Should Prostitution be legal?

[haha]

The biggest beneficiaries of laws against prostitution are the pimps and the police.

Ha

 

[NYEXPAT]

Still surprised nobody brought up the Providence example where underage "dancers" can only work till 11:30 pm on SCHOOL NIGHTS !

 

[Sevo]

Atlas888 you hit that one dead on the Head.


IMHO prostitution should be legal for all consenting adults. My definition of consenting adult is any one over 45 years old and who's children are grown.

 

[modhatter]

A legal brothel would protect girls against mental and physical abuse from pimps, and customers from deseise. The problem would be the after market. Young girls below 18. A legal brothel would not want to house them, so they would be left out. Of course it goes without saying that we would rather there not be girls younger than 18 in that profession, but wishing and doing are two different things.

We would have to have REAL police intervention for under age girls, and prosecutions for the males to deter it.. The numbers might be too great for serious police and court intervention. That's why I thihk concentrating on child pornogrophy and prostitution amonst very young girls must take priority, and leave the rest to brothels.

With the advent of the internet for solicitation, a new form of police detective is needed as well.

 

[James5v]

Being a somewhat Liberal Libertarian, I feel people have a right to make poor choices. So of course prostitution should be legal. Hopefully, there would be some slight government regulation on health issues. Even Libertarians believe one of the few government's duties is to protect its citizens so STP's would fit into this category.

 

[kcowan]

When I split up with my DW of 26 years, several male friends said they were staying in their marriages for the money. They claimed they could not survive on their 50% of the family assets.

These guys had affairs and used prostitutes while remaining in their "loveless" marriages. Definitely an unhealthy side-effect of our strange laws.