disneydude
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Wondering what your thoughts and arguments are.
Personally, I think that prostitution should be legal for the following reasons:
1. As long as the act involves two consenting adults who are we to say what you can and cannot do with your own body.
2. In a sense we are all prostituting ourselves. If you are a dishwasher, you are offering your time and labor to wash dishes, etc. Why should it be illegal to engage in sex for money?
3. It cannot be based on "morals". What is immoral to some is not immoral to others. Laws cannot be based on one person's moral beliefs.
4. It could be regulated which would combat health concerns.
Come on....face it.....its the world's oldest profession. As long as both parties are willing participants and negotiate an exchange of an act for a fee (isn't that what capitalism is all about?), we should stay out of it.
Of course, if someone is having sex in a car parked in a neighborhood or in an alley in view of children etc, that could still be punished. What I am talking about is PRIVATE consensual sex for a fee.
Personally, I think that prostitution should be legal for the following reasons:
1. As long as the act involves two consenting adults who are we to say what you can and cannot do with your own body.
2. In a sense we are all prostituting ourselves. If you are a dishwasher, you are offering your time and labor to wash dishes, etc. Why should it be illegal to engage in sex for money?
3. It cannot be based on "morals". What is immoral to some is not immoral to others. Laws cannot be based on one person's moral beliefs.
4. It could be regulated which would combat health concerns.
Come on....face it.....its the world's oldest profession. As long as both parties are willing participants and negotiate an exchange of an act for a fee (isn't that what capitalism is all about?), we should stay out of it.
Of course, if someone is having sex in a car parked in a neighborhood or in an alley in view of children etc, that could still be punished. What I am talking about is PRIVATE consensual sex for a fee.