Should prostitution be legalized?

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Not an actual plan or intention, again I repeat it is a hypothetical. :p. So no luck needed
 
Adultery is actually a crime on the books in NYS, but to my knowledge it is never enforced. If I were to bring in an adultery arrest I would quickly find myself in my chief’s office.
 
You’re assuming that legalizing it means that people will follow the rules. Individuals who profit from prostitution are not likely to look favorably on the new taxes which they will have to pay, and will simply keep utilizing the well developed network of illegal means to avoid losing profits. Also, regardless of legality, the prostitution business tends to attract shady clientele. A large percentage of my department’s drug and illegal weapons arrests are the result of prostitution stings.
 
Fuerza said:
You’re assuming that legalizing it means that people will follow the rules. Individuals who profit from prostitution are not likely to look favorably on the new taxes which they will have to pay, and will simply keep utilizing the well developed network of illegal means to avoid losing profits. Also, regardless of legality, the prostitution business tends to attract shady clientele. A large percentage of my department’s drug and illegal weapons arrests are the result of prostitution stings.
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It is far easier to follow the rules when there are some. I have friends who have worked in brothels and also pursued private work as sex workers, brothels being legal here, and the support given through the brothel makes for a safer and more lucrative work environment.

It is akin to any industry. Some folks will still do illegal things, but if it is made legal and regulated it becomes safer.
 
I’d love to hear a law enforcement perspective on this: What do you think of Sweden’s solution of prosecuting the pimps and johns but not punishing the actual prostitutes?
 
Are you serious? Absolutely not! It is subjectifying and an immoral “profession!”
Yuck! 🤢
 
Kathleen18 said:
Are you serious? Absolutely not! It is subjectifying and an immoral “profession!”
Yuck! 🤢
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I’m not sure what you mean by “subjectifying”? Do you mean “objectifying”?

I would far prefer people who pursue this profession to be safe and able to turn to the law for protection than to be outside of it. Some people don’t find it “yuck”.
 
There will always be the exploited people who turn to prostitution because of despair. Drug addiction is a real cause of prostitution. These women and men don’t work within the “legal” network.

And yes, prostitution is tied with organized crime.

So no, it should not be legalized.
 
F_Marturana said:
There will always be the exploited people who turn to prostitution because of despair. Drug addiction is a real cause of prostitution. These women and men don’t work within the “legal” network.

And yes, prostitution is tied with organized crime.

So no, it should not be legalized.
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The three people I know who do sex work are not doing so out of despair, nor are they addicted to drugs. As prostitution is legal in Australia within certain regulations, they are working within legal networks.
 
Subjectifying: to turn something into a subject.
I.e. not seeing a person as a human but as a “thing.”
 
Kathleen18 said:
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Some people don’t find it “yuck”.
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Those people are entitled to not see it as “yuck.” But, those same people are also wrong.
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I don’t think you get to define what a person feels is “yuck”. Just as they cannot define what you find unsettling. It’s akin to saying a person is “wrong” about liking some kind of food you don’t find appealing.
 
In some scandinavian countries, prostitution is criminalized: clients have to paid penalty is caught.

In France, it is not legal.
 
I don’t know how true is this but I’ve read that legalizing it would contribute to human trafficking. If that’s true, then noooooOooo! I don’t care about privileged women’s choice to sell themselves, I care about the women and children being taken away and degraded as a result of the sex industry.
 
Lea101 said:
I don’t know how true is this but I’ve read that legalizing it would contribute to human trafficking. If that’s true, then noooooOooo! I don’t care about privileged women’s choice to sell themselves, I care about the women and children being taken away and degraded as a result of the sex industry.
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What about men in the sex work industry?
 
If they’re the victims then obviously I would care. Though women and children are mentioned because modern feminists tend to believe that sex work can be empowering.
 
So in Australia there is no illegal network of “sex workers” who do it because of addiction, or because they are coerced. No underaged people forced into it, and no organized crime at all?
 
Because then we would put up with so much less bs from Feminists.

The cynic in me thought about setting up a porn studio that looks for amateur actors off the street to help us film our scenes.
 
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So in Australia there is no illegal network of “sex workers” who do it because of addiction, or because they are coerced. No underaged people forced into it, and no organized crime at all?
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Certainly. But by having legal alternatives people who turn to this kind of work due to those motivations are far, far safer. Also, many professions have illegal types that people will turn to out of despair; some people fence stolen goods for instance, does this then mean that all sales jobs are terrible? Or only ones that sell things in an illegal manner?
 
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