Banning prostitution?

Question

Government ideas are mooted for banning prostitution. I'd like to know people's views. I have just four comments :

1. I doubt if the trade/ activity can be banned effectively. It's not the sort of thing you can stop completely. Better to regulate what you can't prevent ?

2. Nobody would condone the sex-slavery and human trafficking that often goes along with prostitution. But prostitution doesn't necessarily mean these things.

3. My guess would be that buying sex is rubbish in comparison with having sexual relations with someone you care about and are engaged with.

4. But isn't prostitution - or can't it be - just another application of the market - a voluntary transaction on fair terms ? Or are there reasons why it is never voluntary and always & inherently exploitative of women ?

Harriet Harman, who's mainly behind the mooted legislation, is a warm heart and a champion of women. But is she right on this one ? If prostitution ended, fine : yet to illegalise ?

Joe C : I accept that the statement or principle, 'better to regulate what you can't prevent', depends for its plausibility on the context. Nobody would think of regulating burglary on this basis ! My context was the banning of prostitution. But I'm interested in your general view. You appear to think that context can never make this principle okay. So : do you think that it is NEVER better to regulate what you can't prevent, if we set aside for a minute the specific use your 'marijuana potheads' may have made of this claim ? And, btw, were they aiming to regulate (permit but control) and not, obviously quite a different thing, to de-regulate (permit without control) ?

Answer 1

"2. Nobody would condone the sex-slavery and human trafficking that often goes along with prostitution. But prostitution doesn't necessarily mean these things."
That's more likely to happen with illegal operations than legal ones so legalising and regulating prostitution would be a better way to combat the problem (since the respectable legal brothels are not going to be involved in any of that crap).

There's also evidence that allowing prostitution may reduce the incidence of rape.

Sometimes prostitutes are exploited while other times it's more a case of the prostitutes exploiting their clients. It's usually the illegal ones that get exploited the worst.

There is also the public health aspect to worry about. When prostitution is legal they tend not to spread STD's around (and usually have lower infection rates than average) along with regular testing but if it is illegal then prostitutes tend to be more likely to have STD's and to spread them around (and their clients will also usually spread them).

Answer 2

The fact is, this is a morality issue.
If the government did things effieciently, there would be brothels owned by the government, all the tarts AND the johns would be tested for STDs, and the floosies would work for a fair wage and get health insurance and other benefits, they would also be regularly tested for drugs, if a girl was found to be taking something illegal, she would have to tell the narcs who she bought it from or she would be labeled "for sadists only". The profits earned would be used to pay for health insurance for the uninsured.
While this would be a big improvement in the populations health, it would also make the state a pimp, so it can't do this, so, it must either stop prostitution or attempt to, either way the state comes out ahead morally.

Answer 3

There are places where prostitution is legal, and it's regulated (protected and licensed), and it works.

When people want to buy-- drugs/ sex -- they'll find a way to buy.

Self reglulation is the only thing that makes any sense.

If a woman wants to sell her body to a man for his pleasure, I'm not sure what the point is of preventing that transaction.

Answer 4

It should be legal. Peoples' morals should not guide a citizen's sex life. If a person wants to pay money for sex then he should be allowed to. Prostitution is legal in some counties in Nevada. The prostitutes' work is safe and healthy. Legal prostitution is a popular business in Nevada because it brings in billions of dollars per year to the state of Nevada. Somebody must be paying for it.

Answer 5

I do not believe in the statement that it's "better to regulate" what you can't prevent. The marijauna potheads tried pulling that on us in Nevada, and we ran them out of the state on a rail, with all of their lies and trick advertising.

Answer 6

Yeah, it is bullcrap, all ideal, as you assert. yet as quickly as we banned "promiscuity," then adult men could would desire to respond to for all their extramarital sexual habit, which might in simple terms never do. :/ Prostitution is not any distinctive than the different activity. human beings fake like there's a distinction, however the only way this could be conceivable is that in case you think intercourse is an inherently magical or particular act. in case you think it is not consistently and would not would desire to be magical and particular, as I do, then advertising your physique is not any distinctive than advertising your physique and a while on your business business enterprise, that's what each working American does. i won't, as an occasion, no longer circulate to my activity. My physique is had to be in a undeniable place at a undeniable time doing a undeniable ingredient or i won't be able to be paid. all of us prostitute ourselves for paychecks. It in simple terms differs by employing degree and sort. Prostitution ought to be decriminalized, no longer legalized. Legalization comes with its very own problems, collectively with that male bosses can earn extra funds off of a woman than she makes for herself for doing the artwork, and it additionally restricts her means to say no whilst she desires to. women human beings ought to artwork for themselves and be waiting to get police risk-free practices, in simple terms like various different business enterprise proprietor. ________ additionally, the "preserving women human beings" good judgment is bullcrap. the government would not very own my physique. no one owns my physique different than for me. the government won't be able to ban cigarettes with the intention to "defend human beings from being harmed or harming themselves" (which persons are allowed to do daily with all styles of issues), and the government should not be waiting to prohibit prostitution consequently, the two.

Answer 7

Agree with your points.

It shouldn't be banned.

Sex is legal & selling is legal; So why shouldn't selling sex be legal?

The only true crimes are those that involve instigation of violence &/or intentional deceptions. Prostitution does not necessarily require either...so, it doesn't need to be illegal.

Answer 8

I don't know. Honestly, this is a very sensitive case. I do in a way think that prostitution should be banned. Some prostitutes are spreading diseases that way.

Answer 9

It comes down to choice. If women claim abortion is their choice since its their body then prostitution should be legal by their choice.

So should drugs and suicide. If it is your body it should be legal to do anything you want to it.

Answer 10

Damn, I'm going to have to find another part time job.