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[Vortigern]

Should prostitution be made legal? I say yes. I don't see what right any government has to control what happens between two consenting adults. Besides which, people get paid for making porn films. How is having sex for money any different when it's on camera?

New Zealand, western Australia and the Netherlands are a few of the most famous places to have legalised prostitution. In New Zealand the major distinction is between "voluntary and involuntary prostitution". So forcing people into whoring is still very much illegal, but selling yourself or working in a brothel isn't. Hurrah!

Anyway, I was just wondering what everyone else's opinion was. I figure at least one person will want to rant about the decline of morality.

[Allathar]

Voluntarily prostitution should be legal, imo. If someone wants to earn their money by having sex with someone, they can go ahead. It's not like that forces me to have sex with them... So your 'morality' won't be touched either. But I doubt people on this board will rant about the decline of morality. Pasidon perhaps...

[Mathijs]

Legal prostitution is great and and I support it. Only a fool would do anything else.

[Elvenlord]

And I pull pretty much the same arguement as my weed one. Legalized, there will be regulation and taxation, and more importantly protection for the prosititutes themselves.

[Spectre]

I think it needs to be legalized, but should probably go on strict probation for anyone younger than at least 18, we don't want our children watching porn stars when they're 9 or 10.

[Beowulf]

we don't want our children watching porn stars when they're 9 or 10.

Methinks it might be a tad too late for that.

Anyway, to the topic at hand, it should be very legal. As George Carlin puts it, "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. So why isn't selling fucking legal?" Actually, that's probably one of the few great quandaries of the day.

[Rattuskid]

more importantly protection for the prosititutes themselves.

THIS

The three main problems with prostitution are the involuntary/drug addiction type, risk of disease, and abuse from pimps in the voluntary type.

Problems one and two are a lot easier to solve by focusing resources on them instead of ALL prostitution, and setting up a system of regulations rather than prohibition.

The problems of pimps, and prostitute abuse is best solved by legalization, because it effectively ends the need for pimps. If a whore isn't afraid to tell a cop that her customer beat her/stiffed her, she has no need for a pimp.

I don't know why this hasn't been legalized already. I mean, hell in the Bible a whore is one of the first people Jesus stands up to defend. I just don't get this nation's culture sometimes.

Also, in Germany, not only are sex workers legal, they're unionized.

Edited by Rattuskid, 29 May 2009 - 10:57 PM.

[Pasidon]

In Germany, the moral codes are thin. They would legalize public urination if it helps them get their pre-war moneys back.

Yea, why not legalize prostitution? The wife/husband was a nag anyway and premarital procreation is God's favorite invention.

[Mathijs]

Jesus Christ man, you have to be some kind of elaborate troll.

[Elvenlord]

Please don't feed the troll Matias

[Pasidon]

Didn't you see the sign on my cage? No flash photography...

[Allathar]

But I doubt people on this board will rant about the decline of morality. Pasidon perhaps...

I knew it!

[Rattuskid]

Hey Pasidon, want to make a little money? I swear you'll be able to walk in a week or so...

[Caspa]

why? Are you gonna get someone else to fuck him?

[Hostile]

If it's the law to allow someone to abort a baby based on the "it's my body doctrine" than it would be silly for prostitution to be illegal as well as weed and suicide. All things being equal of coure, which it isn't once politics comes into play.

[segwayrulz]

Prostitution should be legal for people who want to choose that as their career.

[Rafv Nin IV]

"My body, my business."

The government does not own or have the right to exert power over my body, my mind, or my checkbook, except in such situations where my freedom of body, mind, and checkbook directly harm other people's rights to their bodies, minds, and checkbooks.

*Proud citizen of one of the three US states in which doctor-assisted suicide is legal.*

[True Lord of Chaos]

I am, too! Pound it!

[Pasidon]

Yea, agreed the government doesn't have the right to prevent people from doing whatever they want with their bodies. Sounded weird... But Sodom did burn under a vale of sulfur a few seconds after a group of people asked to rape an angel... Don't want the streets lookin' like that place...

[Rafv Nin IV]

The story of Sodom is moot because the only person God allowed to escape was a total douche (along with the old testament God in general). I mean, Lot offered his virgin daughters to be raped rather than see a few men he hardly knew harmed. Add that obvious sexism to turning a woman into salt just because she looked over her shoulder, and you wonder why there are any Judeo-Christian women.