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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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This. I'm on the fence about legalizing it, but no matter how you slice it, the black market doesn't vanish just because of legalization. Not least because for a not-insignificant portion of the clientele the chance to abuse the women, or have sex with minors, or have unprotected sex in a dangerous situation, or what have you, is the attraction.
I'm in favor of legalizing it, if only to strike another law that puts people in a cycle of prison out.
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Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
The jury's out on whether legalization decreases the number of people brought in as slaves or not. Barring clear evidence that legalization (and not mere decriminalization) reduces human trafficking, decriminalization should be the policy goal. The people who buy still get fined/go to jail but the women who sell have recourse to change their lifestyle without fear of jail.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
Legalising prostitution would make it easier for sex workers to seek legal help. Bit unsure on whether they can count on getting help from the police, though.
Yep, Trump supporters are making Latino sock puppet accounts. #TotallyYourShield
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-presidency-gop-plan-227427#ixzz4IdDPiGis
So...basically their plan from day 1 for Obama?
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Disasturbator
> Prostitution should be legalized for the same basic reasons that casual drug use should be legalized: people will do it whether you allow it or not,
Obviously while keeping all the other forms of prostitution illegal,because people (the fucked up in the head kind) would argue that all forms of Prostitution should legal,
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Wanderer, you're actually wrong. There are several places in the first world where prostitution is legal. Denmark for example.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Jupiterian Local
I think you misread him. He said "no matter where you go in the First World where prostitution is illegal" — ie, he was talking about the parts of the first world where prostitution hasn't been legalized, not saying that prostitution is illegal in all parts of the first world.
Can I just say how much I despise Jill Stein?
Goddamn, she's such an opportunistic piece of shit.
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Not that its getting her anywhere.
What's she done now?
The law in the night
Honestly, what I dislike about her the most is how the fringe groups associate her with Jews at general and go like this "This is what Jews actually are".
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The mention of Stein out of nowhere made my think something specific had happened.
edited 28th Aug '16 11:55:32 AM by sgamer82
That honestly sounds more on them for being crazy than her, to me.
edited 28th Aug '16 12:03:00 PM by LSBK
Stein is not only batshit crazy, but has some diet racism to boot.
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United Earth
Yup.
I honestly see nothing good about Stein. It baffles me that people think she's better than Hillary. Do they even pay attention to what she says?
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
Just subsidize registered prostitutes to undercut the black market.
Lost in Space
More to the point, there is evidence to show that most people seeking out sex workers will choose legal venues if given the opportunity, even if they could get it cheaper on the black market. Heck, there were times in my life where I might have done so, had I not been afraid of getting arrested or catching a disease.
You'll always find black market pimps selling child sex and other immoral/illegal things, but that would happen regardless of the legal status of consenting adult prostitution.
edited 28th Aug '16 12:22:20 PM by Fighteer
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United Earth
used to do that in the Middle Ages in small municipalities. It was considered a public service.
World's Cutest Direwolf
Man, between the antics of Jill Stein (and some research about a few groups in Europe) and the experiences of my internship (which has pulled me towards the political center on economics/defense), I think I hate the far-left as much as I do the far-right now.
Of course, the far-right is obviously more dangerous at the moment.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
For me, it's that the far fringe left are the far right's useful idiots.
Oh lord...
Rapper Ice Cube endorses Donald Trump. Or does he....
He doesn't.
edited 28th Aug '16 2:31:58 PM by smokeycut
