Should prostitution be legalized?

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I’m not interested in influencing anyone. It’s my opinion, based on my experiences, which include having a friend who was a prostitute and working in the criminal justice system, as well as spending time in neighborhoods where prostitution goes on.
I couldn’t care less if anyone agrees or disagrees with me; this is an Internet forum, not a courtroom or legislative body, and this isn’t a matter of Catholic faith, or at least I’m not basing my opinion on morality.
You want to make “persuasive” arguments or say my viewpoint is 100 percent wrong, feel free and have fun.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
I’m not interested in influencing anyone.
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Yeah, right.
And extrapolating from the one to the many is a great technique for understanding the laws of nature and society…perhaps not.
I believe “swallows” have something to say contrary to your position.
 
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Alex337 said:
I don’t think that there will ever be no demand for sex workers across the whole world, throughout history there has always been demand.
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I know. But we should at least try to reduce it. If legalizing prostitution has shown to increase demand, it doesn’t seem convincing that they will be helped. Unless you’re saying that they should be brought here first and then hopefully they’ll be rescued, but I don’t know how to feel about that.
 
You wouldn’t be wrong.

Then there’s the parallels between the old way with bride prices and dowerys.

No one has ever gotten sex for free.
 
Why would you ask that question when you know prostitution is against the commandments?
Why set up a thread of this nature if you’re a catholic?
Absolutly not .
 
Indeed, my brother married a delightful third world girl.
There was a “bride price” - informal though it was!
 
Interesting. If you feel like it’s not inappropriate I’d love to know how the logistics of that went down.
 
If a lawmaker signs a bill legalizing prostitution he would be guilty of grave mortal sin. Obviously the circumstances would result in more prostitution and the sins that would occur would be on the lawmakers hands.
 
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Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. Rather than be given rights in the ‘workplace’, the prostitutes have found the pimps are as brutal as ever. The government-funded union set up to protect them has been shunned by the vast majority of prostitutes, who remain too scared to complain.
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Illegality has simply taken a new form, with an increase in trafficking, unlicensed brothels and pimping; with policing completely out of the picture, it was easier to break the laws that remained. To pimp out women from non-EU countries, desperate for a new life, remains illegal. But it’s never been easier.
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Police now acknowledge that the red-light district has mutated into a global hub for human trafficking and money laundering.
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Roger Matthews, a professor of Criminology at Kent University and a renowned expert on the sex trade. The politicians he spoke to confess that the legislation has made a total pig’s ear of an already unsavoury situation.
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Why even Amsterdam doesn’t want legal brothels

Do you remember the rather brilliant comedy sketch featuring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in which they played laid-back police officers in Amsterdam, bragging that they no longer have to deal with the crime of murder in the Netherlands since the Dutch legalised it? Don’t laugh too hard. In...
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We didn’t have a clue, it was negotiated by his wife.
It wasn’t a particularly large amount by 1st World standards.
The marriage likely would have progressed without it but it would have been a huge insult to her family.
 
Ah so it was more of a cultural thing than a real “purchase”. Makes sense.

What country?
 
Oh please. I hate hearing this question all the time. I asked this question to know more about Catholic laws and market rules. This is “Catholic Answers Forum”. Everyone has the right to post his/her question.
 
I don’t think that’s true, given Aquinas and Augustine were in favor of the grudging toleration of prostitution. There are all sorts of evils the civil law tolerates because enforcement of laws against would lead to worse evils.
 
No. Once we legalise something we are giving out a message that it is acceptable.
 
They tolerated it because it may have been already allowed. They would never approve of new laws that allow prostitution and if given the chance one should always prohibit laws or vote againsy laws that allow for intrinsic evils.
 
Brendan_64 said:
No. Once we legalise something we are giving out a message that it is acceptable.
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The Church gave up the fight to keep sodomy decriminalised decades ago in my country - and elsewhere. (The same re Prostituion centuries ago if it ever did).

Yet Catholics have not stopped believing homosexual acts are morally unacceptable and society in general is still aware of the Church’s moral views despite these repeals.

So your unsubstantiated view on this and similar matters is erroneous in my experience.

Intelligent, sincere and even religious persons often prudentially decide for themselves that it is better for the common good that some immoral matters not be crimininalised.

That doesn’t mean necessarily those same things will be regarded as any less immoral by those sectors of society that have always believed so. And those that never have will of course continue to remain so as they always did even in times of criminalisation.

In fact such things would surely not have been decriminalised in the first place (despite Church authority being in place) had there not been other reasons in play for the acceptability or not of such things.

That is, how do we explain how the message successfully went out that sodomy was “acceptable” even while it was still on the books as a criminal act? This indicates to me that the situation is far more complicated than your simplistic personal view above suggests.
 
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No, prostitution is illegal because it inherently involves a “power play”- the woman is desperate for money, and the man has money, so she consents to an activity she wouldn’t consent to otherwise. … Some jurisdictions have decriminalized the selling of sex, but maintain STRONG laws against buying it. In this way, they take a gentler approach with the girls, but punish the “customers” who perpetuate the injustice.
 
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