RE: How the market liberalisation of prostetution increased the exploitation of women.
June 1, 2013 at 10:51 pm
If it was both decriminalized AND deregulated, then I see the problem there...
The whole point of legalizing a criminalized business (drug selling, prostitution mainly) is so that you CAN regulate it to protect both the customer and the supplier, turning it into a legitimate business instead of an exploitation racket. I am a huge fan of Germany, but they really dropped the ball on that. Let them unionize, get rid of the pimp/brothel system and set up something like the "Red Light" district where they rent their rooms and advertise their wares themselves... but keeping the criminals in the business just fixes nothing.
The whole point of legalizing a criminalized business (drug selling, prostitution mainly) is so that you CAN regulate it to protect both the customer and the supplier, turning it into a legitimate business instead of an exploitation racket. I am a huge fan of Germany, but they really dropped the ball on that. Let them unionize, get rid of the pimp/brothel system and set up something like the "Red Light" district where they rent their rooms and advertise their wares themselves... but keeping the criminals in the business just fixes nothing.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - Macbeth
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?" - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?" - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
