What Sex Workers Want

If I want to screw a hooker or smoke a doobie, how does that harm you? I'll tell you how -- it harms you in that I would have to break laws to do either of those, and if I was caught I would be incarcerated. I would be living off of your tax dollars then, no different than the welfare recipients who can't find good jobs. One more person living off the system. Conservatives never want to face realities like that when they rant and rave about normal human behavior, and want more criminal punishments. Sure, just build more jails, maybe that will stimulate the real estate market. Let's convert some of that unsellable real estate into more prisons for the fornicators and the leaf smokers. You know, all those people who are different than you, all of those nonconformists that don't worship at your church and don't belong in your ideal society.

There are all sorts of benefits from taxing the world's oldest profession. It isn't going away.
1. Become licensed - just like liquor.
2. It can be taxed.
3. Regulations can make it safer, requiring health checkups inluding drug tests.
4. It can be zoned.
Not all forms need to be licensed [e.g. street walkers]. Prohibiting prostitution is no more successful than prohibiting alcohol, it just forces it into a world more apt to be involved in other criminal activity.

Prostitution and the illegal street drug trade is really the same issue. Just like people have always paid for sex, people have always shared plants with their friends that they know will give them a buzz if they eat, smoke, sniff, or injest it in some fashion. The criminalizing of normal human behavior is what leads to the problems, not the normal behavior itself. All you bible thumpers can throw stones all you want, but let's see you claim you are without what your bible would refer to as "sin".

Pt. 2 of 2 Its time to take the decsions and the money out of the hands of the legal system that so financially gains from overburdened judicial and prson systems. Legalize the activities, use the savings where the monies are WAY better spent (just killing the economy of drugs would DRAMATICALLY reduce requirements for prison space and the resultant expenditures, assuming we act to kill the economy of it...make the supply CHEAP and take KILL the economic incentive for its exploitation and the large amount of sedondary crime resulting from individauls commiting crimes for supporting their habits likewise disappear!) If we use our heads instaed of our narrow-minded moralistic base to make better decisions on how to handle these issues, we can make the lives of ALL parties dramatically better.

Pt. 1 of 2 We're way to Puritan in our roots for our own good. Its time to gorw up as a society. This commodity is available in virtually every state in the country, in every country on the face of the Earth. It has been since time immemorial. The old saying of not learning from history us to repeat it stands...prohibition created an underground, illegal, violent underground supply-demand driven economy iwth alcohol. The same happens with other illegal activies, drugs and prostitution. This leads to opportunities for indivisuals to exploit the 'commodity' for personal gain, and in the case of slaves or sex-workers, the individuals. Legalizing it protects ALL parties by making 'above' ground what illegalizing it does by driving it undergroud. If a legal supply of an item exists, you remove the incentive and opportunity for individuals to exploit them for personal gain by enabling control of its economics. You protect society by dictating who can do what, under what conditions. Disease and exploitation can be imnimized. We've never successfully eliminated it and we never will. LIcensing can be used to resolve these issue, who setting to whom it is given, with testing, etc.

The other consideration is economic. Again, this applies to both drugs and sexaul activities. The government(s) of our country, on all levels, DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY or resources to successfully monitor, prosecute and incarcerate indivduals for all the social evils our Puritanical populace love to become so bent out of shape regarding. It COSTS MONEY to chase, prosecute and incarcerate people!!!!! I'd rather through license and regulation monitor and regulate activities for minimizing damage and encouraging safety, removing $ from those who are likely to produce harm in society....and spend the VAST amount of money diverted into NON PRODUCTIVE legal channels (lawyers, police, PRISONS), and put those monies into our financially teetering systems of MEDICAL CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY and EDUCATION. For example, while I lack the specific figure(s), in Califnoria we're running a deficit largetr than the economies of many countries!!! We do this while we're under icnreasing pressure to build more prisons with MOENY WE DON'T HAVE!!!! This again applies to drugs and prostitution in spades, where our legal system drives up prison populations to oen of the largest on the planet, for one of the richest society's on the planet...now driving us towards poverty, as we continue to WAY outspend vs. our income (in government for purposes of this rant...).

We're way to Puritcan in our roots for our own good. Its time to gorw up as a society. This commodity is available in virtually every state in the country, in every country on the face of the Earth. It has been since time immemorial. The old saying of not learning from history us to repeat it stands...prohibition created an underground, illegal, violent underground supply-demand driven economy iwth alcohol. The same happens with other illegal activies, drugs and prostitution. This leads to opportunities for indivisuals to exploit the 'commodity' for personal gain, and in the case of slaves or sex-workers, the individuals. Legalizing it protects ALL parties by making 'above' ground what illegalizing it does by driving it undergroud. If a legal supply of an item exists, you remove the incentive and opportunity for individuals to exploit them for personal gain by enabling control of its economics. You protect society by dictating who can do what, under what conditions. Disease and exploitation can be minimized. We've never successfully eliminated it and we never will. LIcensing can be used to resolve these issue, who setting to whom it is given, with testing, etc.

The other consideration is economic. Again, this applies to both drugs and sexaul activities. The government(s) of our country, on all levels, DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY or resources to successfully monitor, prosecute and incarcerate indivduals for all the social evils our Puritanical populace love to become so bent out of shape regarding. It COSTS MONEY to chase, prosecute and incarcerate people!!!!! I'd rather through license and regulation monitor and regulate activities for minimizing damage and encouraging safety, removing $ from those who are likely to produce harm in society....and spend the VAST amount of money diverted into NON PRODUCTIVE legal channels (lawyers, police, PRISONS), and put those monies into our financially teetering systems of MEDICAL CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY and EDUCATION. For example, while I lack the specific figure(s), in Califnoria we're running a deficit largetr than the economies of many countries!!! We do this while we're under icnreasing pressure to build more prisons with MOENY WE DON'T HAVE!!!! This again applies to drugs and prostitution in spades, where our legal system drives up prison populations to oen of the largest on the planet, for one of the richest society's on the planet...now driving us towards poverty, as we continue to WAY outspend vs. our income (in government for purposes of this rant...). End Part 1

Anyone who thinks prostitution is ever going to go away is absolutely delusional. Prostitution, as we all know, is "the oldest profession", which literally means that the very first transaction between two human beings that we would recognize as a job was one person offering sex and the other person offering some form of payment for the sex. This is an inherent, biological fact of human behavior. You can no more stop this than you could stop people breathing, or criminalize the consumption of food.

As we continue to have mass layoffs across our country, and the entire global economy continues to crash, what do you think people are going to do to earn money? Some will turn to prostitution as a guaranteed source of income -- recession proof, for sure. It should be taxed and regulated like any other business, because it is always going to be a business whether anyone likes it or not. Bring in some more tax dollars via the prostitution business, and maybe we can start working on that trillion dollar deficit we have, before China sends warships over here to collect on the money we owe them.

Wow, I was wondering when this would be brought up. I live in Europe where Prostitition is legal. The Working Gals/Guys all see a Medical Dr every month to be sure they're free of diseases, if they get ill, they MUST see a Dr and are pulled off the Job until they are cleared by the Dr. The Business is treated just like any Job.... And know what? Rapes don't occur as frequently as they do where Prostitution is illegal...

If people want to sell their own bodies it should be their choice. There is no reason for laws against prostitution other than the govenment knows it will be too hard to regulate taxes on activities like this. This is the same reason marijuana is not legal. It is not a matter of public safety, it is a matter of government control. The citizens of the United States should stop being such pussies and take their rights back.

Maybe they should have considered a different line of work. Why is it people go into dangerous jobs and then want tax payers to pay for their protection, testing, OSHA standards. It's ridiculous. After being in education for 20 years and being threatend by high school student number 100+ I got out, however, I never asked anyone at the school to protect me. I handled it myself. When you've had enough, get out!

Maybe they should have considered a different line of work. Why is it people go into dangerous jobs and then want tax payers to pay for their protection, testing, OSHA standards. It's ridiculous. After being in education for 20 years and being threatend by high school student number 100+ I got out, however, I never asked anyone at the school to protect me. I handled it myself. When you've had enough, get out!

Some people would say that marriage is legalized prostitution. Certainly, if you go back a few generations to when women could not vote, own property, or have jobs, the woman had no way to find a means of financial support other than offering her body to a man. Now, the holy rollers like bf08 will tell you that their holy book commands a subservient role for women, and they should stay in their place, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. No jobs for them, legal or illegal.

I believe that prostitution should be legal and for two reasons. 1 - now they are on the tax roll and must pay taxes on their earning because they would need a business license to operate as a prostitute and 2 - they would have mandatory screenings for communicable disease that would be required for their license renewal.

Just one fat fiddle player away.

bf08 you are out of your mind. Comparing child porn to prostitution is apples n oranges. Two different things entirely!! One makes their own choice the other (the child) is taken advantage of. One last thing, killing the prostitute for "charging to much" is laughable. Otherwise i think every doctor and lawyer would be killed.Now there's legal prostitution at its finest!

My friend you are an intellectual nightmare. Did you read anything in my previous two posts? And to answer your question, most people that view prostitution as bad would also consider free anonymous sex to be wrong.