Should Prostitution Be A Crime?
I wanted to know how you feel about the legal issues regarding prostitution. Leaving moral issues aside; is the giving & receiving of money for sexual acts really considered a crime? What justifications does the government have making it a crime?
Why is it that people are allowed to have sex with whomever they want (under consent) for free but when money is involved it becomes against the law?
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It should be decriminalised and regulated. It is never going to go away but it needs to be treated like any other occupation whch allows people to work in a safe and healthy environment.
I've never really understood why it was criminal. I guess people object because it would "legitimize" non-marital sex, which I don't consider anyone's business except the individuals involved.
It is illegal because if it were legal the thinking is that people would participate that would otherwise not; making sex even more exploited than it already is. The legal ramifications are merely a deterrent. If it was legalized it could be regulated and possibly safer. However..it is always going to be the dirtiest of dirty professions. Legal or not.
I don't want to leave the moral issues aside.
Choosing to take advantage of whatever assets you have available, to do better for yourself, is honorable and moral. and I respect that.
It isn't against the law in some states. It should not be against the law in any state but it should be registered as a business and all the working people should have monthly physicals and blood tests.
Only for republicans and religious whackos.
It is considered a lewd act. I know its weired but we talked about it class. If it was legalized then everyone could do it. Would you have someone working the street in your neighborhood where you kids play. I wouldn't, but I understand your point, it is kind of putting down free enterprise. It really is the government's way of cutting down "undesirbales" on every street corner. It is more an image thing than anything else. You know you would hate to see a hooker working ten feet away from a playground your kid is playing on. It is a way the government can clean things up. Believe me if the people doing this were wealthy business owner then no one would care, but when prostitution you are getting into a world of drugs and STD's not an image our country wants to promote. Although we really are promote a good image right now, but you get the idea.
Absolutely not.leaving moral issues aside,as we should.I done a research paper on this.Basically every other country on the planet makes it leagal,including industrialized nations such as Canada,Switzerland,New Zealand,Wales,London(city)Autr... states(all with conditions or in some form)...So why wouldn't it be legal here?There would be no or a significant decrease in the decriminalization of prostitution as pimping,trafficing and street-walking.They wouldn't be walking ducks for rapists and murderers.or.again,a SIGNIFICANT decrease.Nevada state laws require the cities where thre are brotherls to have mandatorey testing,and there has not been one case of HIV since I believe 1985.What more compelling argument than that??Therefore,why not regulate it and tax it like alcohol and tobacco which we know leads straight to illness or death??It's because of politics and our children and religious beliefs but even in biblical times there were prostitutes provided for church leaders.They were there and they're here and they're not going anywhere.it's a human service,it's a common need that we all share,and what we're doing is not working!
Also,check this out:
"The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Revised: September 5, 2000
SOURCE: http://cwfa.org/library/nation/2000-09_p...
The U.N. General Assembly adopted CEDAW on December 18, 1979. President Jimmy Carter SIGNED IT IN 1980. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed it on September 29, 1994, but the full Senate has not ratified it. So far, 165 countries have signed the treaty, legally binding them to implement its provisions.
CWA (Strong opponents “Concerned Women of America") is convinced that, if the Senate ever ratifies CEDAW, the federal government would allow it to supersede all federal and state laws, as evidenced by past federal court rulings.4
Part V (Articles 17-22) of CEDAW outlines the creation of a Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women to oversee the implementation of CEDAW in every signatory nation. CEDAW legally binds every signatory country to implement its provisions. After signing, each country must submit an initial report with a detailed and comprehensive description of the state of its women, "a benchmark against which subsequent progress can be measured." This initial report should include legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures the signatory nation has adopted to comply with CEDAW. The country must submit follow-up reports at least every four years.
Treaty Provisions Includes
Legalized Prostitution
Article 11, section 1(c) of the treaty upholds "the right to free choice of profession and employment." The Committee has included "voluntary" prostitution in that "free choice"
NOT to say hey,I want to choose to be a serial killer and get paid for it so I should be able to choose---not even close to being the same.
But,again this is oppsosed to the religious groups and alot of other things they don't approve of don't become illegal(like being gay) I mean there is a seperation of church and state and people who are not religious shouldn't be subjected to their beliefs.I am a relugious person but just feel this is something they won't recognize(anymore)and it goes on everywhere.
Anyway,there are so many arguments why it should be legal,but there just isn't enough scientific data to prove many of their arguments.It's a purely moral argument I think and there is no more a compelling argument than in Nevada wiping out disease and they have to be hekd accountable if it happens.You can't have that kids of assurance now.Those women deserve healthcare just like the rest of us.(Those who have it of course) and who better to recieve it than those who are highly sexually active??Would you want to sleep with(hypothetically) a prostitute from somewhere it's regulated,or non-regulated?Hmm...don't say not at all because if no one was doing it it wouldn't exist.(mostly men).It needs to be regulated.Period.
AND TO LISA the dirtiest of dirty professions,aye??What about the insurance executives that purposefully keep costs down and deny care and procedures for people who will die without them?Not dirty?What about the drug dealers and child and flesh peddlers-LESS DIRTY FOR YA??I don't think so.It's unSAFE because it's not regulated.If we have the right to have abortions and throw away a life(and I am pro-choice) but not to decide who we have sex with and under what circumstances??Backwards!!It's because it's an industry mostly employed with women.If it were only men prostituting(which there are)but if it were that way since day one-it would be legal because they're men.I bet you or someone you know has had sex with someone or blew them, while barely knowing their first name-let alone their last-and blow someone without a condom--guess what you've just possibly spread a disease.There are regular folks who go down on someone orhave sex w/out a condom so why not let the professionals be the cleanest ones?
And don't forget the convicts who come out of jail who may have had sex with a man while incarcerated but the government wont make aids testing mandatory in jails even though its free for the rest of us hmm because the stupid government wants to not acknowledge things when they go wrong hello??I don't think you need any examples of that...
Dating and marriage are still legal. They are basically prostitution.
Of course it should not be.
It is a crime only because the monumentally hypocritical religious love to MORALIZE and DEMON IZE and feel HOLIER-THAN-THOU.
Just yesterday Senator David Bitters a filthy lying hypocrite who won his seat last year by campaigning on family values and condemned adultery,was outed as a client of a Washington madame.
This dispicable hypocrite and literally millions like him,are the reasons why prostitution is still a crime because these peoples sexuality is so screwed up that anything sexual is DIRTY and WRONG.
Prostitution is like any service industry ,no more no less.
Keeping prostitution a crime merely creates more crime around it (pimping , etc) substantially increases the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and creates more violence and fuels the criminal class .
It should be legal. The Religious Right, the Feminist Left, and the nanny staters wouldn't like it, but I could play a small violin for them.
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