Prostitution

[bumcheekcity]

Protest Groups are again shouting louder about Legalising Prostition in the UK. They want it made safer, they claim, and legalising and regulating it would work.

I'm in favour of it, and it's well known that sleeping with a prostitute in many European Countries is safer than Masturbation. This is the reason it's legal in so many countries.

Obviously, checks would have to be put up, girls would have to be tested every 14/28 says or whatever, and condoms would have to be used.

If all these checks, and the other common-sense ones were put in place, would you support a system of legalised prostitution?

[Camarohusky]

Sure, but there has to be hot girls... They should make them pass a cleanliness and a looks tests to be one.

Safer than masturbation? Ummm... I'd like to hear about some of these masturbation related injuries...

[bumcheekcity]

At 8/13/04 05:49 PM, Camarohusky wrote: Safer than masturbation? Ummm... I'd like to hear about some of these masturbation related injuries...

Sounds weird, but it's true. People injure themselves masturbating all the time. However, where there is legalised prostitution, there is virtually never any disease, or anything, because everything's regulated superbly.

[little-bald-kid]

Agreed. Legalised prostitution gets the girls off the street and into the safety of a brothel.

I see no need for these women to stand on the streets and endanger themselves to make money, when they could easily be in a building, and protected from the wrong customers.

[ImmoralLibertarian]

Live and let live.

If peeps need to go pay to fuck then fine with me.

But I do feel that the age you can get a prostitute and that which you can have sex shouldn’t be the same.

If kids aren’t mature enough to go buy a drink then they sure as hell aren’t mature enough to go buy sex.

[bumcheekcity]

At 8/13/04 06:05 PM, grand_retard wrote: But I do feel that the age you can get a prostitute and that which you can have sex shouldn’t be the same.

If kids aren’t mature enough to go buy a drink then they sure as hell aren’t mature enough to go buy sex.

Interestingly, from some european countries to the US, the age for drinking ranges from 14 to 21, and the age for sex varies from 12 to 21. There were no typos there.

[stafffighter]

If you can elect your countries leaders, marry your soulmate or die for said leaders dubiose reasoning you're old enough to drink, meaning you are also old enough to fuck.
Plus them being able to do up front priceing would be a convience

[Cattapillar]

I dont find anything wrong with prostitution.... Id support it!

[mrpopenfresh]

Sure, there isn't really anything you can say about this. Prostitution is as old as civilisation, only recently have we made it illegal.

[Iracundia]

Ideally there wouldn't be any prostitution, but that's never going to happen.

[ShadowsFall]

Am I the only person here that thinks it may be quite wrong to encourage this?

[bumcheekcity]

At 8/13/04 07:04 PM, ShadowsFall wrote: Am I the only person here that thinks it may be quite wrong to encourage this?

You might be. Enlighten us with why you feel it's wrong.

Hah ha, it is funny that you do not like prostitution, but are liking masturbation.

I don't know about america, but in my country we have people's health important. Masturbation hurts glands, and makes thinking bad (sp?). Prostitution is healthy. It makes protection from mental breakings (sp) and has condoms. Masturbation hurts feel (sp) and makes crooked.

I am honest person. No lying! I tell for your help.

[theburningliberal]

At 8/13/04 07:04 PM, ShadowsFall wrote: Am I the only person here that thinks it may be quite wrong to encourage this?

No. Even with the loosening of sexual morality standards, we should not push for the further loosening of the same standards. If it were shown to be possible to not further degrade sexual morality standards and legalize prostitution, I might support it then. Bu tonly maybe.

[lapslf]

At 8/13/04 08:41 PM, SomeRandomLiberal wrote: No. Even with the loosening of sexual morality standards, we should not push for the further loosening of the same standards. If it were shown to be possible to not further degrade sexual morality standards and legalize prostitution, I might support it then. Bu tonly maybe.

You don't lower anything. You just make something you might find low a little safer. I mean, how much lower could prostitution really get? Besides, what seems more immoral to you: A crackwhore on the streets or a healthy happy prostitute in a brothel? Do like us Dutchies: Legalize and regulate. It works.

[theburningliberal]

The healthy, happy prostitute in a brothel, because that means society is condoning an act that pushes the line between acceptable and unacceptable.

Condoning prostitution would be no less than eliminating morality standards when it comes to the sexual world. We would be condoning what may be the straw that breaks the camels back, as the saying goes. By your own admission, prostitution is a low act, and one that many people find disgusting. Condoning prostitution would basically say that, in the eyes of the government, selling sex is just as permissible as selling candy bars.

[lapslf]

At 8/13/04 08:53 PM, SomeRandomLiberal wrote: The healthy, happy prostitute in a brothel, because that means society is condoning an act that pushes the line between acceptable and unacceptable.

Condoning prostitution would be no less than eliminating morality standards when it comes to the sexual world. We would be condoning what may be the straw that breaks the camels back, as the saying goes. By your own admission, prostitution is a low act, and one that many people find disgusting. Condoning prostitution would basically say that, in the eyes of the government, selling sex is just as permissible as selling candy bars.

What you're talking about is a matter of ethics. You find it immoral, a lot of other people don't. Who are you to force your morals on them? Fuck, I find people who work in the meat industry immoral, but I still don't think these people shouldn't have a decent life. You might find SM immoral too. You wanna illegalize that?

You're saying selling sex shouldn't be just as permissible as selling candy bars. I agree. It should be as permissable as selling stuff like alcohol, because it's something you shouldn't be selling to dumb naïve kids. As for adults, if they wanna fuck a prostitute, let them. Those people don't share your morals anyway, weither the government legalises it or not. Besides, the government doesn't have to encourage it, just regulate it.

(by the way, is legalise with an S or a Z?)

[theburningliberal]

At 8/13/04 09:02 PM, Veggiemeal wrote:

At 8/13/04 08:53 PM, SomeRandomLiberal wrote: The healthy, happy prostitute in a brothel, because that means society is condoning an act that pushes the line between acceptable and unacceptable.

Condoning prostitution would be no less than eliminating morality standards when it comes to the sexual world. We would be condoning what may be the straw that breaks the camels back, as the saying goes. By your own admission, prostitution is a low act, and one that many people find disgusting. Condoning prostitution would basically say that, in the eyes of the government, selling sex is just as permissible as selling candy bars.

What you're talking about is a matter of ethics. You find it immoral, a lot of other people don't. Who are you to force your morals on them? Fuck, I find people who work in the meat industry immoral, but I still don't think these people shouldn't have a decent life. You might find SM immoral too. You wanna illegalize that?

This might be considered a conservative view, but I really don't care. Over the last 40 years, the leadership in America has stood by and done nothing while morality in America has gone straight down the shitter. I think that it has gone far enough, and when I sit in Congress, I will oppose any measure that I feel adds to the looseness of morality in America.

You're saying selling sex shouldn't be just as permissible as selling candy bars. I agree. It should be as permissable as selling stuff like alcohol, because it's something you shouldn't be selling to dumb naïve kids. As for adults, if they wanna fuck a prostitute, let them. Those people don't share your morals anyway, weither the government legalises it or not. Besides, the government doesn't have to encourage it, just regulate it.

If the government regulates it, that means the government condones it. If, in the eye of the government, something is legal, there are a good many people who will start doing it for that reason, and that reason alone.

(by the way, is legalise with an S or a Z?)

Z.

[Korin92]

I don't have a problem with prostitution except....

Legalizing prostitution is telling young girls to go out and fuck for money. And, even now, prostitution is most common amongst girls ages (correct me if i'm wrong) 14-26. They don't test the man for AIDS or any other virus transmited via cells (blood cells, sperm cells). Legalizing this, and to make it safe would require a large amount of blood tests for sexually transmitted diseases. The prostitute in turn would not make a steady profit, as most tests would require days to be analyzed. And they would have to outlaw ages 0-17 for prostitution. If this were all possible to do and do succesfully, yeah I have no problem at all.

[StatiK]

No! If prostitution is legal, it'll shred the moral fabric of our lives, just like gay marriage! Children will run naked in the streets! Men will engage in sodomy with turtles! Fire will rain down from the sky!

[hippoguy]

When I was in Panama there was a laws that prosis were required to be checked by a doctor every month. This would control aids somewhat. In amsterdam they required and provided there own condoms to assure safety.

[witeshark]

It is stupid not to legalize it. That results in no regulation and all the health risks are caused by that. Idiots!

[hippoguy]

legal and monitored brothels would pay the girls much better and beat etc the girls much less than pimps. The would pay taxes and earn retirement. They would not need drug addiction to choose the career.

[theburningliberal]

Dude, what self-respecting parents would say to their son/daughter, 'Go ahead, honey. Go sell your body for sex. We think its an appropriate career for our flesh and blood'?

Utter nonsense.

[hippoguy]

at least 40 percent of the kids I meet don't care what their parents think or do the opposite of what they are told. Do you think mom and pop say get tattoos and pierce you eyebrows and tongue? I don't mind what you do to yourself but you have no authority to teel them waht to do unless they are your kids or they ask you (as in minister) because they are responcible for their choices and pay whatever price attached unless you are responcible for them

[Spookshow]

I sad note but I think the way that was shown in "Barb Wire" would probably work. Regulation, taxing, tests and licenses. Clean and everyone is happy, except for the religious and moral groups.

[FUNKbrs]

yeah, and it will cut down on masturbation, which is always a good thing.

[hippoguy]

PS I have never abd will never visit a prostitute in the US as long as it is illegal!!! I am serious about this.

[xenocaster]

If it pays the bills to hell with it. There are bad things about it, but there is also good. People are living. And people are getting laid.

[Duke-of-Bourbon]

It would seem that most of the opposition to legalized and regulated prostitution is from people who view it as wrong or immoral. Perhaps this is so, but that is a matter of opinion, as moral values vary from person to person, culture to culture.
But, consider this: the Roman Catholic Church has a long maintained and conservative view on sexual intercourse. Among other things, sexual intercourse outside marriage is immoral. However, the Catholic Church has made exceptions in the past regarding this specific belief, tolerating the act and profession of prostitution. The reason for this tolerance was often attributed to spiritual health concerns. Prostitution provided an outlet for sexual energy and sexual tensions that could disrupt the moral fabric of society. This provides a precedent; prostitution can be a legal and morally acceptable profession if it is deemed to serve a purpose in society. Whether prostitution serves such a purpose is a matter of debate.
However, if prostitution is legalized, violent crimes against prostitutes can be greatly reduced and underage prostitution can receive greater attention and focus from law authorities. Legalized and institutionalized prostitution will also provide a means to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases because of medical screenings. STDs will still exist and will still be transmitted, but the number of occurrences due to prostitution will be greatly reduced, resulting in an overall reduction in the spread of STDs.
Another thing to consider, if prostitution is legalized, the government can collect taxes on it. These taxes can go toward numerous uses, from security to transportation, education and social programs. Though I personally do not believe this should be the driving force to legalize prostitution, it is still worth consideration.
And one final thought. No matter how immoral you believe prostitution to be, not everyone agrees that it is immoral, not everyone cares even if they do believe it’s immoral, and not everyone has the luxury of not becoming prostitutes. Prostitution is a fact, and it has been a fact for hundreds, even thousands of years. Prostitution will not go quietly into the night. Perhaps it is time to stop trying to annihilate prostitution, but rather to draw it in and mold it to fit our society. Don’t stop the river; change it’s course.