Religious beliefs aside, what is it about prostitution that you are against? For?

I personally don't care for it. If anything, legalize it. This way the girls are carefully examined for diseases and pay taxes for their earnings.

I guess it's one of those jobs where I wouldn't want anyone I know to be doing it, but I don't have anything against others doing it.....double standards...sure....but let me know what you think.

 

It lowers moral value of the surrounding community..regardless of faith (I'm secular BTW ). And regardless of religiouse faith, communities need morals. With out morals and a mutual agreement between neighbors, murder, rape, genocide, any and everything goes.

On the other hand, if there's a mutual agreement with in the community that says this is ok, and if the surrounding communities agree that they won't be affected by this, then so be it (like how I carefully worded this to not sound liberatarian? h: )

 

disease it spreads

 

How do you figure?

 

It's just a talking point - I should have worded it better. In my opinion, it's immoral and can ultimately lower the morals of the community. For one, it can become addicting. Much like drug use, or an even closer relationship, gambling, it will consume an individual and they will constantly need this high. Eventually, they will mentally breakdown not even mentioning going bankrupt. Sure, many people could go to the bothel and have a good time with out any backlash. But just imagine all of the people that would visit more...and more...and more untill eventually they can't go a week or a day with out it. They are gonna cash there check, and instead of paying rent, they're gonna go get laid (...many gambling addicts cash there check and hit up the tables immediatly after work - destroying there home life and proffesional life)

 

Keeping prostitution illegal won't stop people from becoming addicted to sex. Regardless, an addiction to sex is really just a symptom of other psychological problems.

If you really think that your argument is legit, then you are also arguing for prohibitions against alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee.

Incidentally, how do you measure "the morals of a community?" How do you quantify a "lowering" of those morals?

 

we have "legalized prostitution" here, well not here, actually up in the Pocono's there's a little strip joint i went to once with some friends for a b-day party for some guy i barely knew, called Pleasure dome for anyone who must know, and they drag your ass in the back and you pay for service just like on the streets, kinda nasty i think. thankfully i left my money in the car so they left me alone the whole night

But anyways i think the city officials should do more about this type of stuff, if it was legalized the rate of disease spread would rise substancially (sp)

 

What makes you think that? If anything, I would think somebody who has sex for a living would be more careful about using protection and getting tested for disease frequently.

 

Short story time.

I was driving from Prague to Berlin in the summer of 1999 and had to cut through a Czech border town to get from one Autobahn to the next. Prostitution is legal in the Czech Republic and at the time it was illegal in Germany. Driving through the middle of the town was like driving through a strip club. There was easily 200 prostitutes in various states of undress. Now prostitution is legal in Germany and if a local brothel wants more prostitutes they can go ask the state and any woman who has signed up for unemployment benefits is eligible for work as a prostitute. If she is chosen and turns the job down she risks loosing her state benefits.

As much as this may surprise some I am not opposed to legalizing prostitution. Just so long as a woman does not risk loosing her benefits for turning the job down. It happens everyday and people are either unaware or just look the other way. When you are the oldest profession in the book you are always going to have a job.

 

Agreed. NV tests all of their prostitutes monthly for disease. If it is legal their are rules and regulations. It is the illegal, black market stuff that scares me.