Why is Prostitution Illegal?
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Because when people think of it being legal they think "that could be my daughter who one day fucks strangers for money". Myself included. Would you honestly be cool with your daughter becoming a prostitute? (I'm bound to get some people who say "yeah, I totally would" just for the sake of argument, but try some honesty with yourself before you say that)
There also seems to be a nasty cycle with prostitutes and organised crime with drug addiction.
There also seems to be a nasty cycle with prostitutes and organised crime with drug addiction.
I'm guessing the licences would have an age requirement...D Bones said:
And drug tests would also be possible.
And also, some people with penises (me) don't really like sex. So yeah.
I would speculate that it is, in part, to avoid the abuse of those in the business, and that vulnerable people are not forced into the trade. However much protection there may be for those individuals, there is always the potential that there are those taking advantage of them.
You are correct OP; it should be legal. It's good for the economy, makes things easier on the police and makes it possible to make a decent living for prostitutes without having to resort to pimps to keep them safe.
It should be noted for the unenlightened however, that Prostitution is not the same as trafficking, which is a monstrous crime.
It should be noted for the unenlightened however, that Prostitution is not the same as trafficking, which is a monstrous crime.
Amsterdam is only a city with most likely no more then a thousand prostitutes, it easy to keep tabs on something like that. Now try taxing prostitution over a population of 250 million; that's almost impossible for any government to keep track of who is legal and is illegal across an entire nation. Prostitution is still illegal in other parts of Netherlands.kazork said:
An ever better question, why is suicide illegal? If you go through with it, what are they going to do to you? Throw your dead body in jail?
The problem is when Amateur Annie is behind on her rent and decides to put herself on the market for some extra cash. How can you keep track of that? Now in my opinion sex is a lot more fun then accounting or carpentry and I'm sure you'd agree. Rampant part-time prostitutes would be everywhere as a decent looking woman could easily get $500 a week with as little as 5 hours per week, our slutty female workforce would albeit disappear since they can easily get paid with far less effort. Do you think Amateur Annie is going to claim this money as taxable?Mortagog said:
If you regulate prostitution like you do porn and everything is perfectly fine.
Let them be real buisnesses that have to keep up to standards, each prostitute has to have a clean bill of health and measures need to be taken to keep them safe, condoms and the customers will have to prove that they are STI clean by producing a test that's fairly recent.
The problem with making things like this illegal is that you can't tax it, which puts money into the hands of criminals.
Let them be real buisnesses that have to keep up to standards, each prostitute has to have a clean bill of health and measures need to be taken to keep them safe, condoms and the customers will have to prove that they are STI clean by producing a test that's fairly recent.
The problem with making things like this illegal is that you can't tax it, which puts money into the hands of criminals.
Dramatic Flare said:
Oh, your most definatly correct that a lot of it *IS* NIMBY sentiment, this is one of the few occasions where I think it's fine. Your idea about limiting things to buisness districts isn't workable because what is going on there is still going to leak out into the surrounding community.
As far as the bit about "Mongo" goes, I think your missing the point. The Police effectively have to BECOME "Mongo" because things are going to get pretty over the top when sex is involved. Maybe they might not wind up using the same exact enforcement methods, but they are liable to get into a lot more fights.
When it comes to paperwork and bureaucracy, your dead wrong there. The goverment doesn't have to provide the doctors and such, your correct about that, but it does need to hire clerks to handle all the paperwork and deal with/regulate those doctors. With the rising prices connected to existing services like simply registering dogs due to the amount of stress these systems are already under, it's just going to get worse if you add millions of hookers seeking liscences to the equasion. Your probably going to have to see whole new bureaucratic divisions opened both on the state and local level, since both levels are doutblessly going to have their own requirements and want to watchdog them.
On top of this, I think your missing part of the point. It's not just about guys refusing to pay hookers, but what abount hookers who refuse to provide the services but claim they did? That's going to be one wickedly nasty cup of legal tea there.
Apologies for chopping a lot of that off, I have trouble breaking up quoting (despite instructions on how to do it), and this was getting waaay too long.
That is actually not true. Prostitution is legal everywere in the netherlands. YOu can find a red light district in every major city in the Netherland the only thing is that the one in Amsterdam is the best known because of the tourism.tehroc said:
Your other point is valid. I did a quick google search and found that there are 30.000 prostitutes registerd in the Netherlands.
In the us that would make 468.750 prostitutes(if the percentage of prostitutes is constant).
Now that i look at it that would be a pretty doable for a country as big as america.
