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How legal should prostitution be?

How legal should prostitution be?

  • Sex should be legal to sell, but illegal to buy

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  • Total voters
    26
I live in L.A. - - I know what happens here.

On Figueroa, on Crenshaw, on La Brea, Manchester, et.al.

All big cities have prostitution. Stop pretending that prostitution is the reason for murder.

It's not.

Shame on you for suggesting such nonsense.
Well, you need to look a bit closer at the victims involved in all of that prostitution in the places mentioned. This isn't a left vs right issue. I friend of mine is Los Angeles County homicide detective, and yes there are plenty of murders in and around these activities.
 
Well, you need to look a bit closer at the victims involved in all of that prostitution in the places mentioned. This isn't a left vs right issue. I friend of mine is Los Angeles County homicide detective, and yes there are plenty of murders in and around these activities.
So your homicide detective friend told you that people kill others for their prostitution?

What a hot, steamy load of BULLSHIT.

:)

You can tell him (or her) I said so.
 
Even when the transaction is happening on the street corner in front of your house?
All of this can be regulated if prostitution is legal.
Sorry, but prostitution does not always happen in some swanky nightclub or casino and then a quite walk up to a private room where two adults engage in consentual sex. MOST prostitution is controlled by criminal enterprises; women are exploited (often trafficked), and there are ill effect on communities. Prostitution in may way invited drug addiction, other crimes, and blight to a city. Society has every right and every responsibility to control behavior which adversey affects the rest of the society.
Prostitution being illegal encourages prostitutes to commit more crimes. Afterall, if you're already a criminal for being a prostitute, then it doesn't really matter if you commit a couple more crimes. This YouTube comment under the video in the OP explains it well:

One thing not really mentioned in this episode is that criminalizing a profession forces its professionals to become criminals. For instance, drug dealers very often commit a variety of other minor offenses connected to dealing drugs even if they are generally good citizens, and prostitutes often have to find other illegal ways to make money during the day like boosting or fraud. By shoving people into the "criminal" category, you not only raise the barrier for them to make money legitimately, you lower the barrier for them to make money illegitimately. So when cops arrest sex workers, they are likely to find other crimes too, and that reinforces this idea that sex workers are just fundamentally bad people and deserve what they have coming to them. Or that by locking them up for a while, we can "help" them get out of a fundamentally bad profession. But there is nothing bad about sex work except that the state assembly says there is. If sex work were as legal and normalized as road work, sex workers would be no more likely to be criminals than road workers. Or conversely, if we made it illegal to help someone else prepare their tax return, we would see a booming black market of tax professionals appear overnight. And it wouldn't be two seconds before many of them started to add on other illegal financial services.

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In addition, I've already pointed out how decriminalizing prostitution helps catch criminals.

If prostitution is legal, a prostitute can go to the police and report a rape, sexual assault, assault, theft of services, etc. This will deter and help catch scumbags who, under the current system in America, target prostitutes for abuse because they know a prostitute cannot go to the police for help.

If prostitution is legal, when given the opportunity a prostitute who is being trafficked can go to the police and explain the situation without fear the police will arrest them for prostitution.

If prostitution is legal, a John who has suspicions the prostitute is being trafficked can go to the police and report it without fear of being arrested for having bought (or attempted to buy) sex.

You've also expressed concerns about drug use. As I told another poster, I am in full support of both private and government-funded programs to combat drug addiction by offering free counseling services.
 
Government should never outlaw or regulate or tax sex between two (or more) consenting adults.

IMO, like any other business, it would be fine to tax and regulate prostitution. I voted 'buy and sell in regulated brothels' but really I dont care 'where' as long as it is regulated for the health and safety of prostitutes and johns. It seems that "brothels" would be safer but they could also be co-owned by all the prostitutes.
 
Documented consent can be very important in a #metoo (alleged victims must be believed) world. In a what could otherwise become a purely he said/she said situation (with physical evidence of sexual relations) it’s often best to be able to prove consent.

It would be a business transaction, taxed and everything. Just have receipts.
 
Well, you need to look a bit closer at the victims involved in all of that prostitution in the places mentioned. This isn't a left vs right issue. I friend of mine is Los Angeles County homicide detective, and yes there are plenty of murders in and around these activities.
Legalization gets it off the streets and out of the hands and pockets of gangs and violent pimps.
 
What kind of sexual activity involves more than two people?

Last time I checked, polygamy is illegal in the United States.
Sex with more than two people is an orgy. Marriage with more than 2 people is polygamy. There's a difference.
Yes, polygamy is illegal. But multiple consenting adults at the same is not.
 
Prostitution should be legalized. Making it illegal only serves to potentially increase the burden on police and the courts, as well as cause many women to be managed by pimps. There's no reason to make or keep it illegal.
 
Prostitution should be legalized. Making it illegal only serves to potentially increase the burden on police and the courts, as well as cause many women to be managed by pimps. There's no reason to make or keep it illegal.

Using that logic, incest and rape should be legal too. Are you happy with a country having no punishment for any sex crimes?
 
Using that logic, incest and rape should be legal too. Are you happy with a country having no punishment for any sex crimes?
The topic is not about rape or incest. But If sex is between consenting adults, why should it be illegal?
 
The topic is not about rape or incest. But If sex is between consenting adults, why should it be illegal?

Incest and rape can happen to prostitutes, so yes, I wads totally on topic.
 
I want to work for the prostitution lobby on “K” street.




We already have ‘legalized prostitution.’ We elect 435 of them every few years……
 
Incest and rape can happen to prostitutes, so yes, I wads totally on topic.
What are the statistics of prostitutes being solicited and paid for familial relations? Rape is nonconsensual and is already a crime. So that is not pertinent to the topic. And you haven't answered my question.
 
What are the statistics of prostitutes being solicited and paid for familial relations? Rape is nonconsensual and is already a crime. So that is not pertinent to the topic. And you haven't answered my question.

So you think one rape is not one rape to many. Got it.

What I am doing is pointing out you have no logic behind your statement that prostitution should be legal because police are too busy to enforce it. You obviously do not want to accept the facts.
 
So you think one rape is not one rape to many. Got it.

What I am doing is pointing out you have no logic behind your statement that prostitution should be legal because police are too busy to enforce it. You obviously do not want to accept the facts.
Now you're engaging in strawman arguments. I already mentioned rape is a crime and is illegal. What does that have to do with prostitution? Relieving judicial stress is 1 reason why prostitution should be legal. You have yet to answer my question, why should prostitution (solicited sex between CONSENTING adults) be illegal? Why have you not answered that yet?
 
Now you're engaging in strawman arguments. I already mentioned rape is a crime and is illegal. What does that have to do with prostitution? Relieving judicial stress is 1 reason why prostitution should be legal. You have yet to answer my question, why should prostitution (solicited sex between CONSENTING adults) be illegal? Why have you not answered that yet?

If relieving stress of police and the judicial system was ever a good reason to make any activity legal, that would be true for all crimes and nothing should be illegal. That is not a strawman argument. It is demonstrating a logical fallacy.

If you don't like my answers, that is your problem. You are the one choosing not to think logically here. I am still waiting for you to think before you type.
 
If relieving stress of police and the judicial system was ever a good reason to make any activity legal, that would be true for all crimes and nothing should be illegal. That is not a strawman argument. It is demonstrating a logical fallacy.

If you don't like my answers, that is your problem. You are the one choosing not to think logically here. I am still waiting for you to think before you type.
Once again, I said that was ONE reason, not the only reason. Pay attention. And you haven't provided any reason why prostitution should be illegal to begin with, much less answer my question. All you've mentioned is something about incest and rape, which has nothing to do with the issue of prostitution. So it seems the problem here is yours, especially when it comes to consenting adults engaging in sexual activity. It's hilarious to see you pretend to lecture me about logic when you've provided no logical (or rational) argument to support your position.
 
If both parties, the prostitute and the customer, are of legal age of consent, it should be legal.
The legal age of consent part is vital since underage sex trafficking is a problem in the industry.
 
Once again, I said that was ONE reason, not the only reason. Pay attention. And you haven't provided any reason why prostitution should be illegal to begin with, much less answer my question. All you've mentioned is something about incest and rape, which has nothing to do with the issue of prostitution. So it seems the problem here is yours, especially when it comes to consenting adults engaging in sexual activity. It's hilarious to see you pretend to lecture me about logic when you've provided no logical (or rational) argument to support your position.

It is not a reason at all. If it was, ALL crimes should be legal activities.

You are the one not thinking about this. It is your fault that you refuse to accept the facts. So I am done with you.
 
It is not a reason at all. If it was, ALL crimes should be legal activities.

You are the one not thinking about this. It is your fault that you refuse to accept the facts. So I am done with you.
You're the one who thinks sex acts are (or should be) illegal. So support your argument. You've repeatedly failed and dodged challenges to do so. All you're doing is whining.
 
If both parties, the prostitute and the customer, are of legal age of consent, it should be legal.
The legal age of consent part is vital since underage sex trafficking is a problem in the industry.
That is a logical argument, especially in favor of the legalization of prostitution. Age of consent is also a point I made. Perhaps Patriotic Voter should pay attention to your point as well.
 
Using that logic, incest and rape should be legal too. Are you happy with a country having no punishment for any sex crimes?
That is very poor reasoning. There is this little matter of consent that you are not taking into account.
 
That is very poor reasoning. There is this little matter of consent that you are not taking into account.
A matter which I pointed out too and which was subsequently ignored. Not only is his reasoning poor, so is his entire "argument," whatever it might be.
 
That is very poor reasoning. There is this little matter of consent that you are not taking into account.

So you are not getting it either. I am not surprised.
 
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