Legal prostitution policy idea of Lib Dems, why its a bad idea.

[malcson]

Because one of my mates mothers was a prostitute and I saw the effect of it on her first hand. Nobody should have to do that to make a living. It's one of those jobs, like victorian factory work, that just isn't healthy for it's employees.

I assume she 'chose' to be a prostitute? Also would conditions have been better for her if it had been legal? The fact that prostitution is illegal does not stop women becoming prostitutes. I would assume that something wetn wrong in this ladies life 'before' she became a prostitute?

Victorian factory working conditions didn't improve by making Victorian factory work illegal but through legislation to improve the conditions for the workers.

(Just for clarity I have never used the services of a prostitute!)

 

[evilwebby]

Of course it should be legal.
We're a services-led economy, innit.

 

[Blue 1]

Prostitution is never going to go away. Take your own morals out of it.

If we can give protection to sex workers and reduce the harm of the business by hopefully getting rid of some of the people traffiicking, slavery, violence, coercion and addiction then we should, even if this means giving sex work some legal legitimacy. This doesn't equate to saying "prostitution is OK". As with drug legislation, the basis of legislation should be harm reduction, not populism or spurious "morality".

 

[Mrk]

If people want to exchange money for sex then why shouldn't they? It's their body and their money. Issues arise when people are being forced to do things they don't want to. That should be a criminal act whatever it is they're being forced to do.

Exactly.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

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Did you fap off to some pics on here Bruce ????? Honest answer mate ha ha

Honest answer no. Not that I don't, just not to the pics posted here. Pretty hard to moralise about the oldest trade when I dare say most of us use pornography in some way shape or form.

 

[Jags..class]

It the pimps you have to worry about, they would take advantage of it even more if it was legal.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Legalising the sex business reniforces the idea that sex is a commoidty, one you should buy if noone gives it to you. You are breeding rapists, in the same way trade breeds shoplifters.

Breeding rapists? behave.

Prostitution has been around as long as civilised man has & it'll be around as long as man inhabits the planet & there's a simple reason for that - supply & demand.

By legalising it, it could have controls introduced making it safer for both parties involved & removing it from our streets.

It's a discussion that should be had imo & all of the various options examined.

 

[Allezfan]

Honest answer no. Not that I don't, just not to the pics posted here. Pretty hard to moralise about the oldest trade when I dare say most of us use pornography in some way shape or form.

Eh. I'm never particuarly convinced by that kind of argument.

I don't have a problem with all kinds of sex work, in the same way I don't have a problem with all kinds of drugs use. Surely it's over simplifying the issue to say that you have to be for everything or against everything?

 

[Allezfan]

Prostitution is never going to go away.

Nobody has ever seriously tried to make it go away. We have never in this country ever made it ilegal to solicit a prostitute.

You're writing something off as impossible that's never even been attempted.

 

[Dell Boy]

Breeding rapists? behave.

Prostitution has been around as long as civilised man has & it'll be around as long as man inhabits the planet & there's a simple reason for that - supply & demand.

By legalising it, it could have controls introduced making it safer for both parties involved & removing it from our streets.

It's a discussion that should be had imo & all of the various options examined.

I completely agree with this. I believe prostitution should be fully legalised. An adult over the legal age should be able to do whatever they want as long as it's not harming others. So that goes for prostitute and punter.

Artetafan - your mate's mother clearly had major issues full stop. With a job that was properly legitimate there could be all sorts of support services to help and she would be better protected from dodgy pimps etc.

your argument about "breeding rapists" is extreme to say the least. I don't buy the idea that a whole society can be categorised by one issue but even if I did surely it would be the other way around? Suppose for a second that prostitution was legal and then you banned it. Surely then there would be budding rapists all over the shop? However crude it might sound, having a massage parlour available to some nut job with sexual cravings might in some cases stop him going out and commiting a crime.

As has been said before it has been going on since year dot. Has it all of a sudden got worse? I don't see it has so would question why the need to really change anything.

 

[Blue 1]

Nobody has ever seriously tried to make it go away. We have never in this country ever made it ilegal to solicit a prostitute.

You're writing something off as impossible that's never even been attempted.

As long as people want to [Poor language removed] it will exist. No point in trying to argue otherwise.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Eh. I'm never particuarly convinced by that kind of argument.

I don't have a problem with all kinds of sex work, in the same way I don't have a problem with all kinds of drugs use. Surely it's over simplifying the issue to say that you have to be for everything or against everything?

No, you're right, it doesn't appear to be black or white. I suspect there are dodgy/criminal elements in the porn industry, just as there are in the prostitution business. Forcing people to do things they don't want to is the problem here, not people willingly undertaking an activity for money.

 

[Allezfan]

As long as people want to [Poor language removed] it will exist. No point in trying to argue otherwise.

It's hardly the only way to have sex, is it.

 

[LeeBlue2]

It's hardly the only way to have sex, is it.

No, there's also Chloroform

 

[Allezfan]

No, there's also Chloroform

I was thinking corpses, myself.

I'd happily donate my body after death to a brothel.