(March 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: In Nevada where brothels are legal, do they really have any problems with them? I think they'd have fewer problems than where it's illegal but still happens anyway.
And it's not like if they made prostitution legal that a bunch of women are just going to start selling themselves. Sure, some may, but that's their business. Who's to say that it's "wrong" for a woman to engage in the sex trade anyway? I think if a woman enjoys sex with multiple partners, she should be allowed to make a business out of it. It's not like some prude is going to turn into a prostitute just because it becomes legal to do so.
I know a woman who became a prostitute because she wanted to. She loves having sex and thought she could as well make money off it. She works on her own account, is registered and the brothel she rents the room at is a very neat, clean and tidy place. The brothel owner demands health certificates every 3 months, otherwise he refuses to provide a room for the prostitute without a health cert.
I can find nothing wrong with that. As it was said, if it's between consenting adults, out of free will, and played safe, why not.
Plus, she drives a shiny new big BMW and don't get me started on her apartment.
Prostitution is fully legal over here since 2002 and since then, recognized as a profession.
Prostitutes can, and actually have, gone to court to sue their Johns who refused payment, which wasn't possible before.
Making it legal improved the situation for everyone. Prostitutes can now register as independent workers, get social security and are not obliged to take every customer that comes along. Even if she works at a brothel as a regular employee, the usual "power to direct", that superiors in other professions usually have, is suspended by law. Meaning that her boss can't make her service someone she doesn't want to.
There are areas where prostitutes are allowed to walk the street, looking for customers at certain times.
The current law is not perfect, but clearly a step in the right direction by lifting prostitution, at least a bit, out of the dark, depraved corners of society, a little bit more into the light, showing that people who offer sexual services are not that different from everyone else. As are the people who engage in the offered services.
I think it is rather safe to say that legalizing prostitution will not send a society down the drain. Our's didn't go down, why should yours?
It will not make every woman become a prostitute. And it will surely not make every prostitute drive a shiny new car and live in a cool apartment, but it will offer at least a little legal protection to those who work in that profession.
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