Should protitution be legal?

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11 Nov 2010, 11:38 pm

Yes, though I'd go further and say it would be better if prostitution were legal everywhere so as to reduce problems caused by sex tourism.

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Just wondering what you guys think regarding the matter. You would have less bitter virgins

No you wouldn't. If it were honestly a goal of men here to lose their virginity at a legal brothel, I'm sure they would be successful in achieving that. The truth of the matter is, most men on here don't want to pay a prostitute for sex. They want free sex and they want it on the basis of the woman liking them.

The problem with legalizing prostitution is that it validizes the profession, and causes society to put pressure on financially needy women to enter into such activities, even if they don't really want to.

Society takes the perspective that they choose to have financial difficulties when another option is available (selling themselves to men to have sex with).

So for that reason, no, prostitution should not be legal.

Speak for yourself. If I could fork out a couple hundred dollars to get laid by some decent looking chick....im in

In fairness, I would be one of the men to which she is referring.

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12 Nov 2010, 12:17 am

Chronos wrote:

ApsieGuy wrote:

Chronos wrote:

ApsieGuy wrote:

Just wondering what you guys think regarding the matter. You would have less bitter virgins

Speak for yourself. If I could fork out a couple hundred dollars to get laid by some decent looking chick....im in

So go to Nevada or wherever else it's legal and do it.

I wish some chick like you would screw me

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12 Nov 2010, 12:20 pm

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

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12 Nov 2010, 12:23 pm

I'm not aware that being a prostitute is high on many little girls' list of their dream jobs. The stigma associated with it is so bad that no one in their right mind would choose to do it unless they have to or unless events in their lives have driven them to it. Saying a female chooses to be a prostitute is a little like saying a male chooses to be a beggar.

The only way a girl could actually choose to be a prostitute is if she (1) has no history of sexual abuse, (2) is emotionally stable, (3) and has no real financial difficulties. Not surprisingly, you can't say this about the vast majority of prostitutes. Legalizing prostitution would be condoning the exploitation of females who were born into or had to go through certain unfortunate situations. I'm also terrified of the effects it'll have on child prostitution.

I'm also not aware how legalizing prostitution would benefit prostitutes. Businessmen and customers always have more power than the people who actually do the dirty work (which in this case are the prostitutes themselves), and in a country that values "individual rights," I just don't see how the customers could be required to get themselves tested for any infections. And let's face it: would the people who care more about money and/or their own "needs" care about what women have to say in the event that something doesn't go according to the plan?

No, I do not think so. But that's okay, once these women know better and leave the business, they'd just legally recruit new fresh-faced women who have no idea what they're really in for.

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12 Nov 2010, 12:30 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

if someone is having "sex in general" and it isn't "their" choice, it is called rape, and it is indeed illegal.

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12 Nov 2010, 12:32 pm

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

if someone is having "sex in general" and it isn't "their" choice, it is called rape, and it is indeed illegal.

I know, but what RightGalaxy said was that there are some people who are "screwed up in the head" so don't know if it's their choice... Well, people who are "screwed up in the head" exist everywhere and the possibility that one of them could have sex wouldn't make sex illegal, right?

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12 Nov 2010, 12:34 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

if someone is having "sex in general" and it isn't "their" choice, it is called rape, and it is indeed illegal.

well, if you have sex with someone in diminished capacity, they cannot consent and it is also rape. so once again, yes.

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12 Nov 2010, 12:37 pm

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

if someone is having "sex in general" and it isn't "their" choice, it is called rape, and it is indeed illegal.

well, if you have sex with someone in diminished capacity, they cannot consent and it is also rape. so once again, yes.

Yes, that instance of sex would be illegal if it indeed was not consensual, but that does not make sex as a whole illegal, does it?

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12 Nov 2010, 12:43 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

RightGalaxy wrote:

women, men, gay men, transvestites, transexuals, etc...

I don't get why any of those other groups shouldn't be allowed to work as prostitutes if they so wish, just so long as they aren't underage.

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Some people are so screwed up that they actually are led to believe it is "their" choice when most of the time it isn't.

Well you could say the same thing about sex in general, so should that be illegal too?

if someone is having "sex in general" and it isn't "their" choice, it is called rape, and it is indeed illegal.

nobody said it should be illegal for everyone.
well, if you have sex with someone in diminished capacity, they cannot consent and it is also rape. so once again, yes.

Yes, that instance of sex would be illegal if it indeed was not consensual, but that does not make sex as a whole illegal, does it?

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12 Nov 2010, 12:48 pm

hyperlexian wrote:

nobody said it should be illegal for everyone.

Well my point is this: the fact that there is the possibility it may be non-consensual could be used, by the very same logic, to argue that all sex should be illegal, which of course is utterly stupid. So, it's a dead end argument.

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12 Nov 2010, 12:58 pm

ApsieGuy wrote:

Just wondering what you guys think regarding the matter. You would have less bitter virgins

back to the OP... i did some thinking about this. am i the only person who has noticed that visiting prostitutes has done very little (or nothing) for reducing bitterness? at least for the men here on WP.

if anything, it seems to make men angrier and more bitter after they visit them. but i can only speak about the men who speak publicly about visiting them. presumably not everyone speaks openly about it.

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12 Nov 2010, 1:01 pm

C'mon hyper you know better :lol:

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12 Nov 2010, 2:27 pm

Yes, but with regulations.

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12 Nov 2010, 3:11 pm

Better to make money off of it from taxes than spend it trying to shut something down when it's impossible to do so.
Also I'm told it would make things safer. Sure, why not then.

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12 Nov 2010, 3:45 pm

Aside from the numerous benefits of legalizing, such as safer working environments and freeing up the police to focus on real crimes, I wouldn't presume to tell anyone what they are and are not allowed to do with their own body. To me, to think otherwise is terribly paternalistic.

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12 Nov 2010, 4:42 pm

Dox47 wrote:

i think it's paternalistic to allow prostitution.

anyway, do you consider human trafficking or child prostitution to be a "real" crimes? because both of these increase when prostitution is legalized. and increased police presence does not help.

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