Poll: Prostitution should it be legal?

[Veldel]

Kinda bored so figured id make a topic.



Do you think people should be allowed to be prostitutes? If so why or why not?


I think it could overall bring in some money for states and such if they made it so you did it at certien places and then reglulating how clean the people are to keep stuff down.


There would be less abuse and such since they wouldnt have to hide from the law about it or need pimps.

As for age 21 or over only.

EDIT: Im from States and here its pretty much illigal for most part should of added that



Captcha: Lillo, eversm
No idea who that is

 

[Saelune]

Yes it should, then it can be regulated and eventually the overall seedyness would go away. Sex is already "legally" sold constantly but not quite. Hell, its legal to sell people having sex, why not let people join in?
Hell, might even reduce the spread of STDs, atleast midly.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

It's legal in Singapore, in fact, prostitutes can technically be called government workers.

Which is really really odd and funny at the same time when you think about it.

 

[Kevonovitch]

um...it generally is...should look up your local Brothel/bordello ect. sometime

and for thoes of you nit-pics-difference=location 'nuff said.

 

[Knusper]

It is legal here n the UK and I see no problem if the girl is doing it willingly (I once read on the BBC that a quarter of strippers and pole dancers have degrees).

What I don't think should be legal is piping because pimps often force girls into prostitution and take away their earnings.

 

[n00beffect]

Absolutely. I believe that every person has the right to do whatever the bloody hell they want with their own body, and that no law/state/government should restrict them from doing what they want, especially when it's harming absolutely no one.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Politically I think it should be legal and taxable, would bring money to the government. Also would remove the issue of human trade. But it would cause issues with divorces, is it enough of a reason to divorce and woman/men win the settlement if the partner have purchased the services of a LEGAL prostitute.

Based on my ideals/values and moral views, I would say; No!
I think people shouldn't be driven by their sexual desires and sexuality. But what can I do, this just and only my opinion and I am a minority in that case also.

But those are my opinion from two different perspectives.

 

[blizard0am0i]

Even when prostitution is legalized, such as Las Vegas and surrounding areas, it continues to bread an atmosphere of objectification and abuse towards women.

Currently I do not think it should be legalized, though I can imagine a time and place where it could probably be legalized with not bad results. It is simply not that time, or place.

 

[RivFader86]

Hell yeah it should, most of the bad stuff (not moral obligations one might have) is because it is illegal like exploiting pimps and women forced to prostitute themselves

 

[trollnystan]

Politically I think it should be legal and taxable, would bring money to the government. Also would remove the issue of human trade. But it would cause issues with divorces, is it enough of a reason to divorce and woman/men win the settlement if the partner have purchased the services of a LEGAL prostitute.

Based on my ideals/values and moral views, I would say; No!
I think people shouldn't be driven by their sexual desires and sexuality. But what can I do, this just and only my opinion and I am a minority in that case also.

But those are my opinion from two different perspectives.

This pretty much. My rose-coloured ideals say NO but my pragmatic self says yes. I also think that brothels should be state run, but that might be my rose-coloured "but politicians would NEVER abuse that" ideals at work again...

EDIT: Oh and pimps and the like are effing evil and should be outlawed.

 

[Summerstorm]

We are nearly ALL prostitutes anyway.

But yeah: Legal here. No problems with that.

 

[Bandvagn]

Better just make it legal all around. Follow hollands example. By making it legal it cuts the business end out of the illegal side of thing with pimps and human trade. Over here its illegal to buy sex yet its not really illegal to sell it. Thus they provide a legal supply but is undermining the demand, totally against all capitalist laws of economic growth. Not that im for a second any economist, which are all a bunch of crooked criminals anyway, but it just seems weird to make something everyone needs illegal, i.e sex.

 

[putowtin]

It is legal here n the UK and I see no problem if the girl is doing it willingly (I once read on the BBC that a quarter of strippers and pole dancers have degrees).

Lap dancing is legal in the UK, not prostitution.

It should be legal for the simple reason that if it were, lady's of the night, wouldn't have to take risks standing on street corners. If they had brothels to work from, that were run with their interests at heart, then we'd have less Yorkshire Ripper's and less girls falling into prostitution via seedy pimps and drugs.

 

[Detective Prince]

I've been to Amsterdam (Not for the prostitutes.) and I think the regulations they impose are great. If you make something legal you actually have more control over it and the added security and regulations make it a lot less dangerous/demeaning.

 

[Valdus]

I don't condone prostitution, but theres far too many advantages to making it legal than keeping it illegal.

For one it means the girls forced into this position (no pun intended) are at least safer since making it legal means that the goverment can also enforce certain standards (like having minders, forcing the clients to use "protection" and regular check-ups to ensure no STD's or to put girls with really bad STD's like HIV out of the line of buisness).

It also means it could be taxed and police would have to waste as many resources trying to stop it happening. The only drawback to making it legal might be that more and more people could see it as a decent way of making a living (and it may also give the impression that the goverment is supporting prostitution if they make it legal).

 

[Phishfood]

Heck yeah legalise it. If someone wants to rent out their body for the evening then why not.

Once its legal you can tightly regulate it, you can tax it. You can protect the workers same as any other legal worker. You can require certificates of health.

 

[Falconsgyre]

In the US, it's legal to have sex with someone for free. It's legal to pay someone to have sex with you while you film it, because then it's pornography. But it's not legal to pay someone to have sex with you. So, yeah. Legalize prostitution.

 

[blizard0am0i]

In the US, it's legal to have sex with someone for free. It's legal to pay someone to have sex with you while you film it, because then it's pornography. But it's not legal to pay someone to have sex with you. So, yeah. Legalize prostitution.

You make a remarkable point (thus my remarking on it) that I haven't ever thought of, and I'm the sort that HATES contradicting or unenforceable laws.