Are anti-PROSTITUTION laws like Prohibition: Taxation & Regulation would work better than unenforceable laws?

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Churches would greatly protest the legalization of prostitution, but in its current form, it leads to the exact problems that arose with Prohibition:

-Laws are unenforceable.
-It becomes linked to crime.
-Possible taxation goes uncollected.
-Unregulated business can lead to societal problems (in this case, illness).

Would it be better to allow such activities in a restricted way so as to remove the criminal element and help ensure health and safety of the practice?

The 18th amendment was repealed successfully over the objections of Protestant Christians. Would it be reasonable also to legalize prostitution?

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Answer 1

I think we could take a look at places that have made these activities legal and consider the results.

Dutch government statistics show that 13 percent of their high school students have used marijuana, considerably lower than the U.S. figure of 28 percent. Moreover, while officials warn of an increase in heroin use in America, the Dutch say that young people no longer are joining the ranks of Amsterdam's junkies; less than 2 percent are under 22 years old.

Although drugs and violent crime often are linked in America, the violent crime rate in the Netherlands is far lower than in the U.S., despite the Netherlands' more liberal drug policies. There were 1.9 homicides in Holland per 100,000 people in 1993. The U.S. rate was 9.5 homicides per 100,000.

After years of open drug use, today "the crime rate is going down substantially in all of Amsterdam," said Jan Van Dijk, head of the Dutch Justice Ministry's crime-prevention division. Striving for violence-free, drug-free streets, America's yearly arrests for drug possession, sale or manufacturing reached 1.1 million by 1993, according to the FBI. The U.S. has raised its federal drug-control budget to $13.3 billion this year, a dramatic increase from $1.5 billion in 1981.

But brutal crimes, including killings over sales turf, still happen daily in America. The latest Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of U.S. prison inmates in 1991 found that 27 percent of robbers admitted they committed crimes to buy drugs; 30 percent of burglars said so, and 5 percent of convicted murderers did.

This above from: http://www.nationalfamilies.org/publications/about_nfia/amsterdam.html

Prostitution likewise has been made legal but regulated. I have read reports that the result is far lower rates of HIV and other stds. For some reason also the teenage rates of drug use and unplanned pregnancy are statistically much lower in Netherlands.

It is a nuanced issue though. Some say that the inherent differences in American perceptions and culture make it less feasible here.

Answer 2

I think it's a valid argument that is should be legalize, then regulated and taxed. If brothels were established that required safety measures it would be beneficial to the trade. Also, the government could make money off of something that is occurring already. I however do not want to see hookers on street corners. It's a tough issue to deal with because there will still be those who go outside the law, for a multitude of reasons. I don't think it will be legalized anytime in the near future (i.e. 10 years) but you never know.

Answer 3

No, it would not be reasonable to legalize prostitution.

Any future restrictions would probably be just as unenforcable as the current laws, and might be more difficult to remedy than the out-right ban that exists now.

And besides, who is going to champion legalization? Don't worry about the church, worry about the numerous people who value there monogomous marriages and there attractive daughters.

Have you ever lived in a community when someone tries to open the first local strip club? Let me tell you, people object. And very few people want to step up and defend it. Now multiply that resistance by about a hundred, and that would be the public reaction to legalized prostitution.

Answer 4

Regulating prostitution wouldn't make it any better. It would just make another of mans filthy scourges legal and legitimate. That's the problem we have now. When we think something is too tough to handle we want to make it legal and just forget it. I'm not a Church member I'm an Atheists.

Answer 5

a million. Oh fairly? So while a married individual engages in such activities, it doesn in any way impression their better half and family contributors? 2. "Drug" covers too plenty. Many drugs could desire to be unlawful because of the fact they seem to be a extreme hazard. 3. If abortion is criminal, it removes one great ability consequence for intercourse. With it criminal, STDs could desire to truthfully pass on the upward push. this is in simple terms one thing to contemplate. different than while this is a undertaking for the well being of the mummy, i do no longer see why absolutely everyone can accept as true with killing little ones. If i'm getting purchase a house in Oregon yet then settle on i do no longer like it there, i'm no longer able to in basic terms get funds back and flow. If i purchase a canine and later settle on that i do no longer opt for to handle it, i'm no longer able to in basic terms toss it out the window on a similar time as utilising down the line. while a make certain gets old and a soreness to guard, you are able to toss then right into a retirement center to get rid of them yet you are able to no longer in basic terms kill them. yet while this is a human toddler that somebody would not opt for to handle.. no undertaking in any respect. permit's in simple terms kill it and each little thing would be nice. There are situations the place i could discover it suitable as an option, yet those situations are no longer basic. outcomes have a objective. Or while it comes to infants.. "punishments" as Obama could say. 4. this is not any longer sixty 5 in many factors. and that i see human beings stopped each and all of the time. this is plenty enforcable. It in simple terms needs a stiffer penalty to truly cut back the occurences, no longer that i think of that's what could desire to be performed. the secret's that without the cost limits, a plenty larger ingredient of the drivers could be going eighty-100mph. whether it would not keep absolutely everyone at precisely the cut back or decrease, it effectively keeps the first public of human beings interior of a genuine looking selection around the cut back.

Answer 6

Anti prostitution laws are silly, oldest proffesion, find it anywhere in the world, to have it uncontrolled is stupid. same goes for anti drug laws, benificaries for anti drug laws are: Drug cartels, crooked legislators, police departments, public defenders, and attorneys, state prison employees, probation officers, I a lot more that I missed. Biggest losers are taxpayers. If you legalized drug and prostitution the taxpayer would win and the rest would lose. Now you can see the reason for the stupid laws.

Answer 7

Laws create criminals.
It is better to have personal integrity and be responsible for your own actions.
If we prohibit things it just makes people want them all the much more and it also creates a big black-market.
Legalize drugs and prostitution. It would change the world.

Answer 8

The fact of the matter is that prostitution is completely legal in the United States.

The only aspect of it that is illegal is paying with cash. As long as you pay with beer, compliments, or dinner and a movie, it is completely legal and happens all the time.

Answer 9

amsterdam does it, and its a big part of the economy over there. there are laws, and prostitutes have liscenses to do so, and it is taxed like any other job. the government makes quite a pretty penny. the prostitutes also have insurance, and benifits just like any other full time job, and are quite safe as they have special clinics that check them regularly for anything that might be wrong. so they are quite safe and it is operated just like any other job. and it works out just fine. i like your point that it is rather like prohibition. i studied prohibition for a project in highschool and prostititution for a college project. there are many similarities, including the ones you mentiond. i agree with you entirely. other countries have done it with succsess, there are just certain things in america that arent quite as accepted. many people are afraid of it ruining marraiges, but frankly if your even considering paying for sex somewhere outside your marraige, it wasnt that good of one to begin with.

Answer 10

Absolutely.

This is the world's oldest professiopn. Regardless of how much of a "sin" it is, it still happens. Protecting people from illness and disease, and earning tax revenues from it makes much more sense than simply outlawing it with unenforceable laws... I feel the same about marijuana - the Govt is refusing a HUGE cash cow...