- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 34,817
- Reaction score
- 18,576
- Location
- Look to your right... I'm that guy.
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- Political Leaning
- Centrist
If prostitution were legal... would pimps be "necessary"?
Please note that "necessary" is in quotes.
If prostitution were legal... would pimps be "necessary"?
Please note that "necessary" is in quotes.
I voted Other.
Not every prostitute has a pimp. So, obviously, they aren't necessary now.
First, while our impression of pimps is that they're evil users who enslave their stable, I think that many times they're real safety nets for working girls. So, in that respect, I think some similar organization would probably just happen. Though I do think that the prostitutes engaging their services would be in a better position to negotiate the split.
Secondly, I think there'd still be guys pimping prostitutes -- enslaving them through drug addiction and fear -- whether prostitution is legal or not.
I always thought if I ever gpt desperate enough that I had to steal, i'd rob pimps. Karma free.
Yeah we can just look at how it is in Germany. Everything is in the light and well regulated. It's more like a business. There are independent ones too you can call in the phone book.
That's a terrible idea. A pimp is going to be armed and probably around some other shady characters. If you're hungry and desperate you'll probably have a lot harder time taking him on than robbing someone weaker.
If prostitution were legal... would pimps be "necessary"?
Please note that "necessary" is in quotes.
If prostitution were legal... would pimps be "necessary"?
Please note that "necessary" is in quotes.
Yeah we can just look at how it is in Germany. Everything is in the light and well regulated.
Not true.
Human Trafficking Persists Despite Legality of Prostitution in Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Germany Has Become the Cut-Rate Prostitution Capital of the World | TIME.com
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...legalised-prostitution-and-human-trafficking/
http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEn...elopment-_prostitution_-anonymous-REVISED.pdf
The war on prostitution is as useless and wasteful as the war on drugs.
That's because we're attacking the victims instead of the problem. We should be trying to arrest and prosecute the johns, not the prostitutes.
This probably has to do with a lot of government corruption too.
It has to be done right with strict regulations.
That's because we're attacking the victims instead of the problem. We should be trying to arrest and prosecute the johns, not the prostitutes.
That's because we're attacking the victims instead of the problem. We should be trying to arrest and prosecute the johns, not the prostitutes.
Prostitution won't stop if you take out the johns. There are always going to be women who will sell their bodies if they need the money and men who will buy them.
That's true on some level - it is after all the world's oldest profession and will be for quite some time.
But that doesn't mean we can't reduce the number of women who are abused or forced into it against their will.
IMO, the only way to do that is regulation. Right now abused women are apprehensive about getting help because prostitution is illegal, and they WILL be charged for it.
Quite true
If you want to make drug use drop, prostitution use drop, target the users, not the suppliers. If there is a demand for something someone somewhere will supply it if the money is good enough. Make the non monetary costs of demand increase, the actual demand will drop, and so will the supply
And yet the conditions for the women there are far better than in the US.Not true.
Human Trafficking Persists Despite Legality of Prostitution in Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Germany Has Become the Cut-Rate Prostitution Capital of the World | TIME.com
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...legalised-prostitution-and-human-trafficking/
http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEn...elopment-_prostitution_-anonymous-REVISED.pdf
The reasons trafficked women don't get out when the opportunity appears to be there are complicated.
I agree that prostitutes should not be prosecuted - this is what Korimyr was just talking about. In Sweden they legalized selling sex, but criminalized buying sex or pimping it. That approach has shown a lot of success in reducing prostitution and sex trafficking.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?