CDZ Why is prostitution illegal?

[ChrisL]

I think that if prostitution was legal, it would be easier to regulate and cut down on trafficking, especially minors.

I would agree up to a point BUT(you knew that was coming) there would be a lot more drawn into what is a perverted lifestyle and a form of slavery. The poor would again be the victims with pimps getting the lion's share.

Greg

Legalizing prostitution could eliminate "pimps." Also, there are some brothels in Nevada, from what I hear. None of those women are forced to do anything. It is just a business. I don't really care if an adult woman wants to sell her body, for whatever reasons. My only concern is minors and children.

 

[Asclepias]

I think that if prostitution was legal, it would be easier to regulate and cut down on trafficking, especially minors.

I would agree up to a point BUT(you knew that was coming) there would be a lot more drawn into what is a perverted lifestyle and a form of slavery. The poor would again be the victims with pimps getting the lion's share.

Greg

Legalizing prostitution could eliminate "pimps." Also, there are some brothels in Nevada, from what I hear. None of those women are forced to do anything. It is just a business. I don't really care if an adult woman wants to sell her body, for whatever reasons. My only concern is minors and children.

It would eliminate most of the pimps. There are too many easily manipulated women to totally get rid of pimps.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Someone offers you $10 to have sex with them.
You consider it for a half-second, have sex, collect your $10.
How are you a victim?

No one said you were the victim. You are the exploiter. She is the victim as she is harming herself. You can keep repeating this question. I will keep giving you the same reply.

:doh:
How are you harming yourself by willfully and freely accepting money to have sex?
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?
How so?

Prostitution and the resulting promiscuity is harmful form of destructive self medication for abused and/or depressed individuals that feeds further psychological damage, not to mention the obvious increase in likelihood of contracting STDs.

Yawn.
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?

LOL you autist. I show you prostitutes are emotionally damaged women further psychologically injured by the trauma of the self harming acts they engage in, making them self inflicted victims and victims of their exploiters(their pimps), and all you can say is "yawn". Yawn is right, your whole socially retarded libertarian argument is based on the false notion that there are no victims in prostitution, when there clearly are; the prostitutes themselves.

But suppose since prostitutes are the only way a socially stunted libertarian internet poster like you can get sex, you just don't want to have to deal with the legal repercussions of your deviant and exploitative acts.

Still waiting for you to answer the question:
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?

 

[ChrisL]

I think that if prostitution was legal, it would be easier to regulate and cut down on trafficking, especially minors.

I would agree up to a point BUT(you knew that was coming) there would be a lot more drawn into what is a perverted lifestyle and a form of slavery. The poor would again be the victims with pimps getting the lion's share.

Greg

Legalizing prostitution could eliminate "pimps." Also, there are some brothels in Nevada, from what I hear. None of those women are forced to do anything. It is just a business. I don't really care if an adult woman wants to sell her body, for whatever reasons. My only concern is minors and children.

It would eliminate most of the pimps. There are too many easily manipulated women to totally get rid of pimps.

MOST is good enough for me. A lot of these pimps take advantage of run-away children. They rape them, beat them, abuse them emotionally and mentally, and FORCE them into the prostitution business. At least with legalization comes SOME kind of regulation. Any kind of "business" that is kept underground is not regulated at all, which leads to many more victims.

 

[Steinlight]

No one said you were the victim. You are the exploiter. She is the victim as she is harming herself. You can keep repeating this question. I will keep giving you the same reply.

:doh:
How are you harming yourself by willfully and freely accepting money to have sex?
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?
How so?

Prostitution and the resulting promiscuity is harmful form of destructive self medication for abused and/or depressed individuals that feeds further psychological damage, not to mention the obvious increase in likelihood of contracting STDs.

Yawn.
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?

LOL you autist. I show you prostitutes are emotionally damaged women further psychologically injured by the trauma of the self harming acts they engage in, making them self inflicted victims and victims of their exploiters(their pimps), and all you can say is "yawn". Yawn is right, your whole socially retarded libertarian argument is based on the false notion that there are no victims in prostitution, when there clearly are; the prostitutes themselves.

But suppose since prostitutes are the only way a socially stunted libertarian internet poster like you can get sex, you just don't want to have to deal with the legal repercussions of your deviant and exploitative acts.

Still waiting for you to answer the question:
If you told that someone you'd not take the money but have sex for free, would that remove your argument for "harm"?

I'm still waiting for you to admit prostitutes harm themselves and are victims of exploiters and their own acts.

There is no comparison between a one night stand and selling your body for a living. The transactional and detached nature of prostitution along with the higher level of promiscuity is why it is more harmful than a quick hook up like you are suggesting. But you would know this if you weren't an involuntary celibate.

 

[Unkotare]

Legalizing Prostitution Leads to More Trafficking - NYTimes.com

 

[Unkotare]

Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking

 

[Skull Pilot]

Someone offers you $10 to have sex with them.
You consider it for a half-second, have sex, collect your $10.
How are you a victim?

Answer the question. When was the last time you kissed a woman not family.

Translation: You know you are not a victim in the above scenario, but do not want to admit it because it destroys your position.

You don't seem understand that there is more than just one person in the act of sexual relations. Well maybe you don't as your only relation is with your hand. The issue isn't about the individual paying for sex. He is the exploiter. The prostitute is the victim as she is engaging in self harm.
But yea prostitution should be legal so you shouldn't feel ashamed about having to pay for sex.

Someone offers you $10 to have sex with them.
You consider it for a half-second, have sex, collect your $10.
How are you a victim?

No one said you were the victim. You are the exploiter. She is the victim as she is harming herself. You can keep repeating this question. I will keep giving you the same reply.

Also, answer my question since I answered yours. When was the last time you had sex you didn't pay for.

You think she is harming herself
She might not think that

What two consenting adults do is no one's business but theirs.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Want the truth or an amusing answer? The amusing answer is because the economy would collapse as half the workforce became prostitutes.

The truth is that we're a very mysogonystic culture. And because men make most of the laws, the last thing they want is women being able to earn a living without a man.

 

[JoeMoma]

Prostitution is illegal, but paying someone to have sex to make a porn flick is not. Hmmmmmmm.

 

[Unkotare]

No amount of sophistry will change the fact that prostitution harms many, many people and always will wherever it exists.

 

[Muhammed]

It seems to me that some forumers are trying to oversimplify a very complicated issue.

They fail to comprehend the reality that many prostitutes are slaves. They are not doing it via their volition. They were forced into it by predatory monsters at very young ages.

For instance, one of my friends was pimped out by her parents when she was only 9 years old. She was taken out of school and forced to work full-time. She had no choice in the matter.

Now she's in her mid-30s, has practically no formal education, a criminal record that goes from the printer to the floor, and no work experience record to speak of. She's trapped into prostitution and has been since she was just a little child.

I know another girl. She's in her mid-30s and just occasionally does a trick when she needs some extra cash to party, pay the electric bill, or whatever. She was never forced into it, she did it by choice.

These are totally different situations and that is why the prostitution issue is so much more complicated than many people think.

 

[ChrisL]

It seems to me that some forumers are trying to oversimplify a very complicated issue.

They fail to comprehend the reality that many prostitutes are slaves. They are not doing it via their volition. They were forced into it by predatory monsters at very young ages.

For instance, one of my friends was pimped out by her parents when she was only 9 years old. She was taken out of school and forced to work full-time. She had no choice in the matter.

Now she's in her mid-30s, has practically no formal education, a criminal record that goes from the printer to the floor, and no work experience record to speak of. She's trapped into prostitution and has been since she was just a little child.

I know another girl. She's in her mid-30s and just occasionally does a trick when she needs some extra cash to party, pay the electric bill, or whatever. She was never forced into it, she did it by choice.

These are totally different situations and that is why the prostitution issue is so much more complicated than many people think.

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected. If you keep it in the dark, nobody knows.

 

[Unkotare]

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected.

That is NOT what actually happens.

 

[Unkotare]

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected.

That is NOT what actually happens.

The real harms of prostitution

 

[Unkotare]

The harm of prostitution cannot be diminished by legalising it.

 

[ChrisL]

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected.

That is NOT what actually happens.

Yes it is. When you have a "business" which is completely UNREGULATED, then the chance for abuse is going to be greater.

 

[Unkotare]

Legalizing Prostitution Will Not Stop the Harm Making the Harm Visible Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls Speaking Out and Providing Services

 

[Unkotare]

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected.

That is NOT what actually happens.

Yes it is. .

I have provided facts based on research. You are merely insisting.

 

[JoeMoma]

And if it was legalized, a lot of children who are forced into it could be protected.

That is NOT what actually happens.

Yes it is. .

I have provided facts based on research. You are merely insisting.

Facts based on research or opinions based on an agenda.
Those web sites would be more beleivable if balanced with information about women that are in total control of their "businesses".