Humanizing Sex Workers

I'll just leave this here. Completely SFW BTW.

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

People are people, sex is not evil, prohibition creates an unregulated black market, facilitating crime, etc.

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To quote the Scarlet Alliance, there are no bad whores, just bad laws.

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If prostitution would be legal,it could be better regulated as well as protect those who work in the field. Right now, any sex worker who is abused really can't do anything.

Er, actually around 30% of whores will petty-thief you given the opportunity. Some will cut you.

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

I assume you speak from experience?

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And given that prostitution is illegal in many places or heavily restricted, it tends to promote bad behaviour and on top of that, provides no legal recourse for dealing with it. With something like prostitution, banning hasn't worked, so we should be looking at alternative avenues of dealing with the problem.

I think generally, the industry as a whole is frowned upon for its lack of long-term economic growth, in addition to all the moral issues and disease spread (which I generally think stem from the economic issues and grew into cultural bias against the industry), but to lay the justice hammer on sex workers is likely non-productive as well.

There was a time when brothels were legal. Why did they stop?

edited 12th Oct '11 2:26:13 PM by PacificState

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

United States Nevada Rhode Island It was outlawed in 2009 in RI. I never knew it was legal, but it was 1980-2009.

edited 12th Oct '11 2:24:40 PM by secretist

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I'd say the same reason we stopped having slavery and (briefly) legal alcohol: the religious Left. In Christian cultures, prostitution has either been tolerated as the least bad way for bachelors to satiate their sex drives or criminalized out of idealism.

“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard

The Gilded Age.

And, probably the moralizers. Although you'd be surprised. For example, back when abortion was banned, it was not, in fact, banned for moral reasons, but because clinical doctors didn't want midwives competing with them for childcare, and midwives were the number one providers of abortion, which was actually their most lucrative thing to do.

So, they convinced the lawmakers to rip that out from under the midwives, and when they got back to it and legalized it again it had morphed into a moral issue.

So it goes.

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Well Ontario might be legalising brothel houses soon, it has to go to the Supreme Court first... in which case it'd be legal across all of Canada. That would also likely make all bylaws restricting that stuff to be very susceptible to being struck down.

If you turn the industry into a very normal job, then everything changes. Criminals are no longer there, it's not creeps there any more and it's much safer for everyone. Which means less policing, less disease problems and so on.

-_-; I remember that one comicbook series, a real masterpiece, and one of the most gruesome scenes was in the early X Xth century in the USA, where a midwife practiced an abortion illegally. I was fourteen and it was traumatic. It Makes Sense in Context.

And I wasn't talking from experience, but from vitalstatistix.

edited 12th Oct '11 2:34:11 PM by PacificState

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. Not to say I don't believe you, but rather that you should always check statistics before you cite them.

Besides the various arguments I already gave for it, I think I'd legalize prostitution just to see the unions. Such an amusing concept.

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Seamstresses are a prefectly legitimate guild and there's nothing funny about their Secretary being named Mrs. Palms.

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

What really irritates me is when cops or fricking CS Is in a show like CSI look into and promptly treat whores and such as being as bad as a murderer or something, pursuing each and every one with unbelievable gusto.

Sex is not evil, whores are not horrible people.

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I wasn't just the money USA, unlicensed midwives were placing the health of pregnant women☹

in danger by practicing unsafe abortion.

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Latent function. The money was the primary motivation for enacting the legislation. Women's health (this being the mid/late-1800s) was not the primary reason for it, or possibly even an intended effect, since, you know, it banned abortion, rather than restricting it to proper venues...

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Yeah, shows like CSI and Law And Order can be very morally pretentious, especially when their episodes are Ripped from the Headlines and they don't even bother to get their facts straight.

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Like real-life cops!

A case of true love has the same redeeming power as a case of genuine curiosity: they are the same.

I'm studying midwifery and like to bitch about greedy doctors as much as the next nurse... but it seems a little tinfoil hat :S

We can agree a ban really didn't protect women and lets leave it at that.

edited 12th Oct '11 2:59:30 PM by joeyjojo

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Way I see it, prostitution isn't morally wrong, it's providing people with a service they want and are willing to pay for. If it was legal, it could be regulated and a lot of the risks would either disappear or at the least be drastically reduced.

Morality depends on person.

But I agree, rather have morally questionable thing legal and regulated than have it operated by criminals and making victims criminals too.

Imagine if hooker came to police and said that her pimp has been beating her for not brining enough money. Not only would pimp get arrested(if caught), but hooker too if she originally joined voluntary or even then, since she participated in th crime.

Altough in weird way, it's legal in Finland to be prostitu but buying services of prostitu is illegal. Which is weird in it's own way.

Does any remember Brooke Phillips of HBO's 'CatHouse' was murdered?

Really shook me up

edited 12th Oct '11 3:02:57 PM by joeyjojo

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I should hope that, in a society with legalized prostitution, the concept of "pimps" and "hos" disappear entirely, in favor of well-regulated brothels.

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Question: When prostitution was legalized, were sex workers actually treated any better than they are now?

'Cause I don't remember sex workers being treated well in those Christian cultures Rott talked about...

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!