Why not legalize prostitution?

Originally Posted by killerpineapple

I'm of the frame of mind that people would be better off if they were restricted from certain harmful things in life. Of course no two people will agree on what those things are. You get "uptight pricks" like me on one end of the spectrum and libertarians on the other who feel governments should stay out of people's business. I'm fully aware that my views are restrictive, but from my point of view I just don't like seeing people involved in anything harmful.

How is sex harmful?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by killerpineapple

At it's worst, sex can be forced upon people against their will.

But wouldn't you agree that if prostitution in some form was legalized, this worst-case-scenario would become less and less likely?

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With regards to consenting adults having sex; I still think it can be and has been harmful to society. Promiscuity has led to the spread of disease. Adultery has made a tremendous amount of people utterly miserable, enraged, and/or depressed. There is a great deal of women who have fallen into the trap of basing their self-esteem around sexual encounters. Fornication has provided a boon of unwanted and uncared for children.

Get your head out of your ass. You can't blame the act of sexual intercourse for any of this. Everything you listed is the fault of the person who makes it their fault, they just don't have the balls to man up and take the blame themselves, so they drop the ol' "ITS SOCIETY'Z FAULT LOL" bullshit and fuck things up for the rest of us. Not everyone who has out-of-wedlock sex spreads disease and spits out children. If your stone tablet doctrine of "no promiscuous sex" reached critical mass, do you honestly think that would do society any good?

Drugs are illegal, so what do we have? Drug trafficking.
Selling sex is illegal, so what do we have? Prostitution.

Make promiscuous sex illegal and you'll run society right back into the hole it came from. You wonder why there's so much disease? Teaching abstinence instead of safe sex is probably a good place to start.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by killerpineapple

but that isn't nearly enough for me to comfortably support such a change in law.

So what is enough? This is just like LordsSword. "It's not enough." Well what is enough to sway your view? Complete abstinence? Castration at birth? What?

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I don't blame sex for anything. I'm not sure what you mean by that, but it doesn't make any sense to me either. I do think sex can be misused by people in a way that it harmful to people, but that's much different than 'blaming sex'.

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With regards to consenting adults having sex; I still think it can be and has been harmful to society.

That registers to me as "people having sex is harmful to society." Breaking it down further, it basically looks like you're saying "society is harmed through sexual intercourse." You're saying that something we are naturally predisposed to do is somehow bad for us?

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I'm sorry, I didn't know you were looking for other types of examples. It's a bit unfair of you to get upset about it when the burden really wasn't on me to second guess you like that. Hmm, how about the teenager who feels compelled to seek out destructive and frequent sexual relationships because of exposure to sexual and physical abuse at home? Some will take pity, others will say, 'Get over it and shape up your life'. An alarming number of people (not all, in case that's what you think I'm suggesting) in legal sexual industries such as erotic dancing (yes, i'm aware that dancers and patrons don't have sex) and pornography were the victims of sexual abuse. When you learn the situation of an individual it is sometimes becomes difficult to place fault on them.

Who's placing fault on them? The fault rests solely on the fucked up minds that deem that sort of behavior okay. The problem is, nobody has the minerals to blame them, and them outright. They scapegoat. They blame shit like movies and society. They claim that if we stopped having premarital sex, none of these problems would happen! But can you honestly prove that?

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I maintain that the spread of STDs and the increase in unwanted children being born has everything to do with people having sex irresponsibly. Honestly? Yes, I think it would benefit society in general if promiscuity wasn't accepted or practiced.

And I think you're ignoring the facts presented before you. How would it benefit society when statistics show that sex crime levels are DOWN in countries that aren't filled with so many uptight candy-asses? Furthermore, irresponsible sex starts with childhood. If kids aren't properly educated, it's no wonder they fuck like idiots.

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Yes, I completely agree that encouraging abstinence is an excellent way to go. I still think people need to learn about safe sex as well.

I guess the sarcasm didn't really stick with you. Abstinence programs are akin to mental castration. Telling kids not to have sex, when they're going through puberty and reaching their most sexually active years of life, is fucking stupid. There's no other way to put it. People are going to have sex. It's unnatural not to reproduce. People who don't have their head up the bible's ass have figured this out already, and are advocating safe sex, instead of regressing into the dark ages and saying "NO! NO PREMARITAL SEX EVER! NEVER!!"

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.