Should prostitution be legalized?

[Moderator]

Why bother?

1. The money it would raise from taxation.
2. The safety of having the product under regulation. Remember paraquat?
3. It cuts down on illegal activities related to it.
4. It frees prison space for people who actually deserve to be there.

KTHNXBAI

I should probably start a new thread for this as it's off-topic, but all of these arguments could also apply to prostitution. Another activity that isn't going to go away just because it's been legislated as illegal. I'm not so sure it could be called a "product" per se but there are a lot of safety factors that would come about if it was legalized. It's already been legalized in parts of Nevada so there's a precedent for how it could work.

[Moderator]

I'm being lazy and just copied this from the thread regarding the California bill re marijuana as I wanted to have a new thread so it wouldn't hijack the other one.

[Todash]

I don't know about the taxation thing with prostitution since it's a service, not a product, and services aren't generally taxed, right? I guess each trick could come with a really expensive condom, and THAT could be taxed.

[FlakeNoir]

It actually has been decriminalised in New Zealand.

[Moderator]

I don't know about the taxation thing with prostitution since it's a service, not a product, and services aren't generally taxed, right? I guess each trick could come with a really expensive condom, and THAT could be taxed.

But there would have to be income taxes and all the other income withholding (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) paid which isn't being done now.

[SKfan2006]

i'm not really sure since the prostitutes won't know what diseise the guy has which makes it risky but putting people in jail just for having sex is silly since everyone has to do sex in order to get born.

[Moderator]

i'm not really sure since the prostitutes won't know what diseise the guy has which makes it risky but putting people in jail just for having sex is silly since everyone has to do sex in order to get born.

The flip side to that is that currently they could be spreading diseases (knowingly or not) once infected but, if legalized, there should be mandatory testing for STDs of the prostitutes. That would help prevent STDs from spreading as well as keeping them healthy if they're not using protection. And, yes, there is such a thing as female condoms.

[TBlack]

So Pimps should offer Major Medical with Dental plans & a 401K package?

[TBlack]

Then Offealia could file a sex dicrimination suit against Jimmy Ray claiming he offered the other girls "Special Favors" while neglecting her particular needs... then The Better Business Bureau would create a Unsatisfactory Pimp Heading for JR & none of the other Biotches would wanna trick fo him no mo.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

The Dutch position deserves scrutiny, insofar as prostitution (and marijuana) is legal and controlled in Amsterdam, with regular health checks, income tax and so on.

I don't know a great deal about how the legal position actually works in the Netherlands, but I do know that the Dutch are both the best educated and the happiest nation in the world (World Health Organisation), so I thing we can all learn a lot from them. They also have a very low level of sex crime compared with the rest of our more repressed societies.

And not for nothing is it known as 'the oldest profession'.

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