Men can get all kinds of diseases from unlicensed prostitutes. If prostitution were legal and regulated, the girls and the johns would be tested, and that would make it safer for everybody. Plus it would be a source of tax revenue.
2007-03-11 17:00:38 · 22 answers · asked by Campo 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I totally agree. Beyond that you would see a safer working environment for the women. They would have rights and getting it off the black market would be profitable for the gov't as well. We could look to Amsterdam as a model.
As for the first poster, you cannot legislate morality. Beyond that, unfortunately it happens everyday and is much more common than anyone would even think. Lets make it safe and secure for all involved.
2007-03-11 17:09:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you completely. Sometimes I wonder why so many people refuse to see what Amsterdam and other places have going for it. The rates of AIDS and other STD's are significantly lower there, due to this regulation. It is a service, just like any other. If cigarettes, which are proven to kill you, are legal, then why is prostitution, which could be very safe if regulated, illegal? You are also right about tax revenue. It would also be easier to protect prostitutes because of course there would be a bodyguard of sorts standing making sure nothing got out of hand.
2007-03-12 00:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by Charlie Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gay marriage will be legal some day but paying for sex will remain illegal. So much for moral outrage and religious issues.
Perhaps the time has come to legalize prostitution if one uses gay marriage as a rationale. Prostitutes have the right to be paid for sex just as Bill and Steve have a right to share a 5 BR McMansion in Paramus, NJ and pay each other's health insurance and make life and death decisions if either of them was incapacitated, et al.
2007-03-12 00:09:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the basis for decriminalizing it? Disease control or tax revenue? I don't know how strong of a case you could really make for each.
In the end I think it's really about whether or not it is a matter that our government has jurisdiction over-
What right does the government have to say two people cannot exchange money for sex?
As unseedy as it seems, and as much stigma attached to it as one can imagine, at the end of the day should we really care enough to pay money to have police round up arrest and imprison the hooker and john?
As far as I am concerned- it's none of my business and I could care less.
2007-03-12 00:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by pavano_carl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's probably a good idea, but I doubt it will ever happen. There aren't many candidates out there that would put themselves on the line to support such a bill.
PS: I'd like to point out to the guy above me that prostitution is already legal in Las Vegas outside the city limits. So to say it "cannot be legal", well... it's a little late for that.
2007-03-12 00:04:04 · answer #5 · answered by Jack S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All true statements.
The only grounds for keeping prostitution illegal are that it offends the morality of some religious groups. And in the US, religious grounds are not supposed to be valid as the sole reason for secular laws.
It's pretty irrational to arbitrarily draw a legal distinction between consensual sex, and consensual sex by contract.
But as long as we live in a country where people keep trying to enforce their religious beliefs on everyone else as a matter of law, we're going to have to deal with irrational things like that.
2007-03-12 00:04:51 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well, probably that makes sense. How is it working out in Nevada and in places like Amsterdam? Does everyone get the medical care they need?
Let me add that no one is forcing those men to go to prostitutes. It they want to be faithful to their wives, then can do it.
2007-03-12 00:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legalized prostitution is alive and well in Nevada. Legalized prostitution is also alive and well in Washington DC, just ask Monica L.
2007-03-12 00:05:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Instead of government pouring resources into a prostitute licensing program wouldn't it be more responsible to target the root causes which cause women/men to get involved in it in the first place?
Some of these reasons include high living costs, poverty, drug addiction, etc.
Simply licensing prostitutes will not address these problems, they will just continue to exist and perhaps even worsen.
2007-03-12 00:05:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If not legalization, then at least decriminalization. The state should have nothing to do with the behavior of consenting adults.
2007-03-12 15:27:39 · answer #10 · answered by nothingnada171 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋