Hi Texas,
I wanted to come back to this point for a moment:
It does stand to reason that pimps will take their women (and children) to places where they wont face prosecution. But does it stand to reason that the only way to end this problem of human trafficking is to legalize it everywhere? I would say no. You could just as easily reverse the argument. If every place had stricter anti-pimping and John laws, you would also see less trafficking to those places. The pimps would avoid those places. So trafficking increases, the weaker the anti-pimping/john are in a particular place and conversely it decreases the stricter they are.
Economists look at why people trade and what determines trade values (compensation) we see over and over supply and risk. Pimps and trafficers are paid so much because 1) their risk is high, as the trade is illegal, and the supply is small, as the trade is illegal. So pimps and trafficers benefit from the illegal status. Once the laws are removed no one would have a reason to pay large compensation to anyone else.
It is a demonstrated fact that prostitution, and pimping increases the moment you legalize it. I’ll dig up some more statistics on this for you.
I think this is a missunderstanding, if the 5,000 illegal acts can be legel in a specific location, many if not most will go to that local so in that one location business booms but IT IS NOT NEW BUSINESS, it is transferred business from the illegal locations to the legal locations. To generate new business you have to increase desire (or lower price). So unless sexual desire is a function of law, no change will happen in desire
What do economists know about ethics and moral questions? As far as I can tell, they are only good at knowing how to make a buck, or how to analyze trends in the economy.
Economist study trade, why it happens. Because they study all trades whether sexual or not, whether legal or not, they are unbias. Economist understand main trades are illegal do to ethics ( murder, pollutions, sex, etc). Economist study these issues well because both illegal trades which remain dispite the law, and the effect on substitue products or services are sever.
This link didn’t work. I found the procon website, but the article did not show up.
Well I do not know why so let me post the address with out a link
prostitution.procon.org/.
Second let me post some credential of those some who wrote some of the “pro” arguements
– Marjan Wijers - Chair of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Trafficking in Human Beings in her article in the book Global Sex Workers 1998
–Sherry F. Colb, JD Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar at Rutgers Law School E-mail to
ProCon.org Dec. 17, 2006
–The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), wrote in its 2007 Policy 211, faxed to
ProCon.org on Apr. 30, 2007:
–The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in its 2005 document “Dutch Policy on Prostitution: Questions and Answers” provided on its website:
–John Turley-Ewart, PhD, Deputy Comment Editor for National Post, wrote in his July 7, 2006 National Post article “Lessons From a German Brothel”:
–Paul R. Abramson, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wrote in his 2003 book Sexual Rights in America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness:
–Leah Platt Boustan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wrote in the article “Regulating the Global Brothel,” published in the July 2, 2001 issue of The American Prospect:
–Alan Young, LLM, Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, wrote in the article “Home Sweet Hooker,” published in the Jan. 5, 2006 issue of NOW magazine:
–Pelham D. Glassford, former Police Chief of Washington, DC, was quoted in the
May 11, 1936 TIME article “Policeman on Prostitution” as having stated:
–Kirby R. Cundiff, PhD, Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern State University, wrote in his Apr. 8, 2004 article “Prostitution and Sex Crimes,” published on the Independent Institute’s website:
–Linda M. Rio Reichmann, JD, Director of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Child Custody Pro Bono Project, wrote in the article “Psychological and Sociological Research and the Decriminalization or Legalization of Prostitution,” published in the Apr. 1991 issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior:
–Sherry F. Colb, JD, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar at Rutgers Law School, wrote in her Dec. 17, 2006 email to
ProCon.org:
–Camille Paglia, PhD, Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts, was quoted as having stated in the article “Interview: Camille Paglia - The Prostitute, The Comedienne & Me,” in the Jan./Feb. 1995 issue of Urban Desires:
–Vaclav Maly, Auxiliary Bishop of Prague, was quoted as having stated in the May 4, 2002 article “Czech Bishop Calls for Legalising Prostitution” on the Radio Prague website:
