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what if a small tax was imposed on that industry for a "safe sex administration" to help regulate it.My case. In not so many words.
I thought you were arguing for prostitution to be illegal
I am. The risk for disease if anything else should be one of the main reasons to keep it illegal. If government's role is to protect others from harm, preventing the spread of STDs is the first measure I'd want them to take.
There will be a wealth of unregulated and untaxed prostitutes. Some men will use legal brothels, some men will choose the cheaper alternative that's not taxed and not regulated.
How is that different than any other product or service? The more the government taxes and regulates something to death, the more incentive people have to go to the black market.
And is that an argument? Seriously? Well, we don't want to legalize something because not everyone will use the legal version, so let's keep it all illegal...
What do they know eh?what if a small tax was imposed on that industry for a "safe sex administration" to help regulate it.I thought you were arguing for prostitution to be illegal
I am. The risk for disease if anything else should be one of the main reasons to keep it illegal. If government's role is to protect others from harm, preventing the spread of STDs is the first measure I'd want them to take.
There will be a wealth of unregulated and untaxed prostitutes. Some men will use legal brothels, some men will choose the cheaper alternative that's not taxed and not regulated.
How is that different than any other product or service? The more the government taxes and regulates something to death, the more incentive people have to go to the black market.
And is that an argument? Seriously? Well, we don't want to legalize something because not everyone will use the legal version, so let's keep it all illegal...
I just explained why. I thought better of some people in this thread, I thought people had respect for women. Perhaps I was mistaken.
To make something legal doesn't make it right. I have enough respect for women to know that there are better things for them in life than to subject themselves to this.
what if a small tax was imposed on that industry for a "safe sex administration" to help regulate it.I thought you were arguing for prostitution to be illegal
I am. The risk for disease if anything else should be one of the main reasons to keep it illegal. If government's role is to protect others from harm, preventing the spread of STDs is the first measure I'd want them to take.
There will be a wealth of unregulated and untaxed prostitutes. Some men will use legal brothels, some men will choose the cheaper alternative that's not taxed and not regulated.
How is that different than any other product or service? The more the government taxes and regulates something to death, the more incentive people have to go to the black market.
And is that an argument? Seriously? Well, we don't want to legalize something because not everyone will use the legal version, so let's keep it all illegal...
I just explained why. I thought better of some people in this thread, I thought people had respect for women. Perhaps I was mistaken.
To make something legal doesn't make it right. I have enough respect for women to know that there are better things for them in life than to subject themselves to this.
Apparently you don't respect them because you don't believe they are competent to make their own decisions.
No one said it does make it right, but your sanctimonious sermons don't make it wrong either.
The bottom line is they are harming no one, and laws should be reserved to limiting behavior that violates another person's rights.
You don't respect women. That's obvious horseshit.
Apparently you don't respect them because you don't believe they are competent to make their own decisions.
And apparently you don't believe in the integrity of a woman. Competence be damned. I would think of myself less if I knew there were women out there throwing themselves away like that.
No one said it does make it right, but your sanctimonious sermons don't make it wrong either.
And that statement says everything about your morals. It's interesting really, to oppose abortion and support prostitution. How can you reconcile that? Is that not a double standard? Don't I see you and your other cohorts here go on sanctimonious rants about the evils of abortion?
Seriously? Whats wrong with you?
The bottom line is they are harming no one, and laws should be reserved to limiting behavior that violates another person's rights.
WRONG
They are exposing (no pun) themselves to danger at any point in time. In some cases they pay with their life. What a waste.
Violence against prostitutes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prostitutes fear rape and murder if they are confined to red light ghetto
Legalization may reduce the danger slightly, but the danger is still there. Many unstable men out there looking to take advantage of a woman.
You don't respect women. That's obvious horseshit.
Who's being sanctimonious now?
Thank God you're here to look after them.And apparently you don't believe in the integrity of a woman. Competence be damned. I would think of myself less if I knew there were women out there throwing themselves away like that.
Apparently you don't respect them because you don't believe they are competent to make their own decisions.
And apparently you don't believe in the integrity of a woman. Competence be damned. I would think of myself less if I knew there were women out there throwing themselves away like that.
No one said it does make it right, but your sanctimonious sermons don't make it wrong either.
And that statement says everything about your morals. It's interesting really, to oppose abortion and support prostitution. How can you reconcile that? Is that not a double standard? Don't I see you and your other cohorts here go on sanctimonious rants about the evils of abortion?
Seriously? Whats wrong with you?
The bottom line is they are harming no one, and laws should be reserved to limiting behavior that violates another person's rights.
WRONG
They are exposing (no pun) themselves to danger at any point in time. In some cases they pay with their life. What a waste.
Violence against prostitutes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prostitutes fear rape and murder if they are confined to red light ghetto
Legalization may reduce the danger slightly, but the danger is still there. Many unstable men out there looking to take advantage of a woman.
You don't respect women. That's obvious horseshit.
Who's being sanctimonious now?
You are the one who's being sanctimonious. You're the kind that give conservatives a bad name.
Apparently you misunderstood. I'm pro-choice in every area of life. I believe in leaving people alone
The danger is almost entirely a result of the fact that prostitution is illegal.
You are the one who's being sanctimonious. You're the kind that give conservatives a bad name.
But that's the thing. I'm not conservative. I'm not liberal. I don't believe in your kind of conformity. I'm not on anyone's team.
You're right of course.The danger is almost entirely a result of the fact that prostitution is illegal.
That's not true. The danger is still there, legal or illegal. You can decriminalize prostitution, but you can't get rid of the unstable personalities out there lying in wait to pick one or two of those prostitutes off. And to think, you're willing to let them go out there and expose themselves to that.
Respect for a woman means you don't let her expose herself to needless danger. Oh well.
So you are supporting Prohibition now!!Prohibition turned out like shit, the drug war is shit - I fail to understand how so many cannot connect the similarities in these morality laws.
Eradicating Prostitution is impossible, reducing it is. You can see that when Prohibition was implemented. It was successful in reducing it, not eliminating it. If we judged Prohibition on its ability to eliminate alcohol consumption, it would be a drastic failure.
For example, in Drinking in America (first published in 1982 and revised in 1987), Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin, after a careful and balanced review of studies made during and since Prohibition, note that Prohibition did reduce drinking. The average annual per capita consumption of absolute alcohol by Americans of drinking age—that is, the total alcoholic content of all the beer, wine, and distilled spirits they consumed—stood at 2.60 gallons in the period from 1906 to 1910. It began to drop in the next decade due to state prohibition laws and wartime grain-saving restrictions on brewing and distilling. When statistics were kept again after legal consumption was resumed, the numbers were 0.97 in 1934, 1.20 in 1935, and an average of 1.54 for the period 1936 to 1941. (Pre-1914 levels weren’t reached again, in fact, until 1971.)
In addition, Census Bureau studies showed that the death rate from chronic or acute alcoholism fell from 7.3 per 100,000 in 1907 to 1.6 in 1919, surged to 4.0 in 1927, but was back down to 2.5 in 1932, Prohibition’s last full year. Deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, one cause of which is alcohol abuse, dropped from 14.8 per 100,000 in 1907 to 7.1 in 1920 and never rose above 7.5 during the 1920s. Economic studies estimated that savings and spending on household necessities increased among working-class families during the period, possibly from money that once went to drink. And Norman H. Clark’s fine 1976 “interpretation” of the Prohibition era, Deliver Us from Evil , cites impressive evidence that during the early years of Prohibition arrests for drunkenness and crimes committed while drunk fell off sharply.
Reflections On The Dry Season | American History Lives at American Heritage
So, if Prohibition had that kind of effect, I assume keeping prostitution illegal will have the same effect.
Legalize Prostitution? Not So Fast | National Review Online
Personally it feels like a woman is still being treated like a piece of meat, degraded repeatedly [fucked], for money. It is the carnal men with lust in their hearts who pay money so they can get into a woman's vagina, because he has neither love nor courage to befriend and fall in love with a woman like normal men usually can.
It's not that we want them to not make their own choices, we just care about them enough to know there is a better future for them.
I have almost no faith in government at all.And the difference from what happens right now is?Wouldn't you be showing greater respect and equality to women by letting them make their own decisions about how to act with their bodies?If you want to make women vulnerable to abuse and rape then legalize prostitution. If you want to devalue and demean women, if you want to encourage sick bastards to purchase women's bodies then legalize prostitution. If instead you want to demonstrate to women that they are respected and equal in our society then prostitution would be unthinkable.
Why the need for Government control over people's choices...I thought that was supposed to be a Socialist thing.
There's a reason we have laws to control lowlife scum and their filthy disgusting habits. Left unchecked and unopposed a segment of women in society would be driven into prostitution and not by choice.
Oh yes, if we legalized prostitution there would be controls and regulations in place to mitigate such things where there are none currently.
Your faith in government is ill advised.
I have almost no faith in government at all.
That does not change the fact that regulations and options mitigate the harm that surrounds illegal activity.
No, I am not a liberal. Every business principle speaks for legalizing prostitution. Even the ancient Romans knew this. So, what's wrong with America?
No, I am not a liberal. Every business principle speaks for legalizing prostitution. Even the ancient Romans knew this. So, what's wrong with America?
Prostitution isn't illegal in other countries. Its monitored and regulated in those other countries.
Personally I think if someone want to sell their body and someone wants to rent it for an hour or so I could care less.
No worse than giving it to your husband or boyfriend for free. At least with Prostitution the use of your body makes money for you.
No, I am not a liberal. Every business principle speaks for legalizing prostitution. Even the ancient Romans knew this. So, what's wrong with America?
Prostitution isn't illegal in other countries. Its monitored and regulated in those other countries.
Personally I think if someone want to sell their body and someone wants to rent it for an hour or so I could care less.
No worse than giving it to your husband or boyfriend for free. At least with Prostitution the use of your body makes money for you.
You mean you did not get the lobster and $100 bottle of wine before giving it up?
No, I am not a liberal. Every business principle speaks for legalizing prostitution. Even the ancient Romans knew this. So, what's wrong with America?
Prostitution isn't illegal in other countries. Its monitored and regulated in those other countries.
Personally I think if someone want to sell their body and someone wants to rent it for an hour or so I could care less.
No worse than giving it to your husband or boyfriend for free. At least with Prostitution the use of your body makes money for you.
You mean you did not get the lobster and $100 bottle of wine before giving it up?
LMAO Nope. Wish I had though. Oh and I didn't get paid either. LOL
No, I am not a liberal. Every business principle speaks for legalizing prostitution. Even the ancient Romans knew this. So, what's wrong with America?
Prostitution isn't illegal in other countries. Its monitored and regulated in those other countries.
Personally I think if someone want to sell their body and someone wants to rent it for an hour or so I could care less.
No worse than giving it to your husband or boyfriend for free. At least with Prostitution the use of your body makes money for you.
You mean you did not get the lobster and $100 bottle of wine before giving it up?
LMAO Nope. Wish I had though. Oh and I didn't get paid either. LOL
Did he at least have a nice car?
I just explained why. I thought better of some people in this thread, I thought people had respect for women. Perhaps I was mistaken.
To make something legal doesn't make it right. I have enough respect for women to know that there are better things for them in life than to subject themselves to this.
