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Discussion: Should Prostitution be legalized?
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
I'm not glorifying prostitution. I don't think it should be legal at all. However, I just find it funny that ****ography is legalized, yet prostitution is not when they are basically the same thing. The only major difference between the two is that one is available for anyone to see on the Internet and on DVD, while the other is "private." So, I really find the "young children will learn from that" very hilarious. They are easily learning from it now. And when it comes to the whole STD argument, even with regular testing, there have been several cases of **** actors contracting sexual transmitted diseases, yet the world of ****ography is still very much legal. I just wonder what the government's logic of legalizing one but not the other.
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I agree with you here. I think the two main differences are that **** is safer DUE to the fact that there are more people present and it is taped and the money. It is easy to tax **** because you can't hide it. If **** companies tried to hide it, it would completely defeat it's purpose.
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Member Since: 7/3/2011
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Originally posted by Dei
So you're basically saying that selling your sexual services to a random stranger to earn a few hundred dollars to feed your family is morally acceptable?
Secondly, that's what I said. With our current technology kids have a very specific exploration tool now for learning.
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Um. Where did I say that? I said it's immoral, because everyone says it's immoral. Reading comprehension, folks. Social morality is just the general public's opinion, it should NOT be used to determine what's right and wrong. If it were, being gay would be wrong and it's obviously not.
And @ you saying technology gives proper sex education. Searching wikipedia and yahoo answer for sexual related topics is not proper sex education. That should be up to the parents, and the majority of them fail at it.
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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Originally posted by Bea.
To **** and suck for money IS immoral. There is no way in hell any kid is ever going to be taught that prostitution is right and moral. Even a prostitute herself wouldn't let her own kids go down that path. Sex education where I live is very good, I don't know about where you live but really it is the parents job to instill morals and a sexual education for their kids. Yes some are too scared to do it but it is what should be happening.
While sex is for recreation and pleasure that is fine but when it is for money there is something not quite right there. People should have more self-respect than that and for ****s sake get a real job. I even have issues with promiscuous sex but at least I can understand that in a way.
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But no one is prostitution is right thats not the topic- Its rather it should be legalized or not. Also in the 1950's havin sex before marraige was also viewed as wrong and immoral.... What changed???
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Originally posted by IWasHere
But no one is prostitution is right thats not the topic- Its rather it should be legalized or not. Also in the 1950's havin sex before marraige was also viewed as wrong and immoral.... What changed???
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Well I think that one of the biggest reasons against it being legalized is it's immorality. So it is pretty much valid. It will not be legalized in the next 25 years. People simply won't let it.
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Member Since: 6/26/2010
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Originally posted by Dei
So you're basically saying that selling your sexual services to a random stranger to earn a few hundred dollars to feed your family is morally acceptable?
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Why shouldn't it be if there's no other way?
80% of the people here would be willing to have a one night stand with a stranger but act all prude when it comes to have sex with money involved.
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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Originally posted by Bea.
I agree with you here. I think the two main differences are that **** is safer DUE to the fact that there are more people present and it is taped and the money. It is easy to tax **** because you can't hide it. If **** companies tried to hide it, it would completely defeat it's purpose.
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**** is not that safe either... Ppl still can contact STD'S and recently some have contacted HIV.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Of course not. Besides the obvious effects on the humans into sex trafficking, it can also lead to all other kinds of crime, such as drug trafficking and rape. And I really don't know about you, but I don't want to go around and see a stank ass prostitute on every corner in the US, horrible to look at and can be a danger for kids. Even if a prostitute is being tested every week for HIV, she will test negative for at least the first 4-6 weeks and possibly the first 12 weeks after being infected.... This means that while the test is becoming positive and the results are becoming known, that prostitute may expose up to 630 clients to HIV. This is under the best of circumstances with testing every week and a four-week window period. It also assumes that the prostitute will quit working as soon as he or she finds out the test is HIV positive, which is highly unlikely. This is not the best approach for actually reducing harm. Instead, in order to slow the global spread of HIV/AIDS we should focus our efforts on abolishing prostitution.
Anyone in favor is just severely close minded
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Member Since: 7/3/2011
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Originally posted by Bea.
I agree with you here. I think the two main differences are that **** is safer DUE to the fact that there are more people present and it is taped and the money. It is easy to tax **** because you can't hide it. If **** companies tried to hide it, it would completely defeat it's purpose.
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The pron industry actually IS safer, due to it being legalized and regulated. They have a bunch of precautions set in place in case of STDs. Just a couple weeks ago the entire industry was shut down because an actor/actress tested positive. They shut down production everywhere just to be safe and make sure it wouldn't spread. How is that not safer?
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Member Since: 6/15/2011
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Originally posted by Bea.
To **** and suck for money IS immoral. There is no way in hell any kid is ever going to be taught that prostitution is right and moral. Even a prostitute herself wouldn't let her own kids go down that path. Sex education where I live is very good, I don't know about where you live but really it is the parents job to instill morals and a sexual education for their kids. Yes some are too scared to do it but it is what should be happening.
While sex is for recreation and pleasure that is fine but when it is for money there is something not quite right there. People should have more self-respect than that and for ****s sake get a real job. I even have issues with promiscuous sex but at least I can understand that in a way.
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Look, from a purely personal standpoint, I don't disagree with you. But from a practical standpoint, you can't use the "it's immoral" excuse to argue why something should be illegal. Morality is subjective, and using it as a benchmark for legalizing/criminalizing something just opens the floodgates for people to basically use the law to dictate how others live their lives. We're still having legal issues with gay marriage and abortion because there's loads of people who believe that those things are immoral too.
I just think the basis should be whether it will actually harm people as a whole, and in my opinion it won't. If anything, I think the issue of human trafficking would be drastically reduced if prostitution were legal. And **** isn't much different from it, yet it's legal. So why draw the line at prostitution? It's certainly not worse.
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Originally posted by Bea.
I agree with you here. I think the two main differences are that **** is safer DUE to the fact that there are more people present and it is taped and the money. It is easy to tax **** because you can't hide it. If **** companies tried to hide it, it would completely defeat it's purpose.
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And prostitution not being legalized makes it way more unsafe for prostitutes seeing as if they get abused or the client does something bad to them they can't call the police because they are doing illegal stuff themselves.
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Originally posted by DejaVu
Um. Where did I say that? I said it's immoral, because everyone says it's immoral. Reading comprehension, folks. Social morality is just the general public's opinion, it should NOT be used to determine what's right and wrong. If it were, being gay would be wrong and it's obviously not.
And @ you saying technology gives proper sex education. Searching wikipedia and yahoo answer for sexual related topics is not proper sex education. That should be up to the parents, and the majority of them fail at it.
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Being born attracted to the same gender and ****ing for money are two completely different things.
One is a choice and one is not. You can't force people to change who they are but you can enforce a law against prostitution....the two are not relate-able at all.
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Originally posted by Moonage Daydream
Look, from a purely personal standpoint, I don't entirely disagree with you. But from a practical standpoint, you can't use the "it's immoral" excuse to argue why something should be illegal. Morality is subjective, and using it as a benchmark for legalizing/criminalizing something just opens the floodgates for people to basically use the law to dictate how others live their lives. We're still having legal issues with gay marriage and abortion because there's loads of people who believe that those things are immoral too.
I just think the basis should be whether it will actually harm people as a whole, and in my opinion it won't. If anything, I think the issue of human trafficking would be drastically reduced if prostitution were legal. And **** isn't much different from it, yet it's legal. So why draw the line at prostitution? It's certainly not worse.
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I agree with what you are saying, except the highlighted part. Whether you like it or not, laws are based on moral issues and how America feels morally, so morality is a good standpoint on whether to criminalize/legalize an issue practically. Personally, I don't want it this way, but that's just how it is
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It should be legal and taxed.
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Originally posted by Moonage Daydream
Look, from a purely personal standpoint, I don't disagree with you. But from a practical standpoint, you can't use the "it's immoral" excuse to argue why something should be illegal. Morality is subjective, and using it as a benchmark for legalizing/criminalizing something just opens the floodgates for people to basically use the law to dictate how others live their lives. We're still having legal issues with gay marriage and abortion because there's loads of people who believe that those things are immoral too.
I just think the basis should be whether it will actually harm people as a whole, and in my opinion it won't. If anything, I think the issue of human trafficking would be drastically reduced if prostitution were legal. And **** isn't much different from it, yet it's legal. So why draw the line at prostitution? It's certainly not worse.
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According to some years ago having sex before marriage and without commitment was immoral too, double standards are not cute. Being moral or immoral is something subjective.
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
And prostitution not being legalized makes it way more unsafe for prostitutes seeing as if they get abused or the client does something bad to them they can't call the police because they are doing illegal stuff themselves.
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They shouldn't be a prostitute to begin with, end of the story
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
And prostitution not being legalized makes it way more unsafe for prostitutes seeing as if they get abused or the client does something bad to them they can't call the police because they are doing illegal stuff themselves.
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Legalizing it is not going to solve those problems, it will send the sex-slave trade more underground, people will become even more secretive about it to avoid paying tax on it. Pimps are never going to be great law abiding citizens.
And I don't know about the area you live in but where I am if a hooker is attacked, threatened, beaten etc etc by a customer and she calls the police, they take the assault way more seriously than the prostitution, they tend to get told not to do it again and let go.
To be honest if people want a nice safe job they shouldn't look into prostitution, it's ****ing stupid as hell.
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Member Since: 6/26/2010
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Originally posted by RatedG²
They shouldn't be a prostitute to begin with, end of the story
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Prostitution has existed by thousand of years so there will always be prostitution, it will never disappear and if you can't fight it, join it, they should have support from the government and prostitution should be taxed.
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Member Since: 3/27/2009
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I'm never going to buy a prostitute, but if someone wants so buy some cooch or ****, who am I to judge? Cheating on your spouse or significant other is looked down upon but is still legal, so why should buying a willing sex-partner be illegal?
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