Why not legalize prostitution?

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

As for the money bit - we can thank the Civil War and the religiously needy during that horrific time. War does crazy shit to people, I guess. In times of need, turn to the most convenient god...? After that business, I suppose it sounded good, and they left it.

Cold war.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Jesus, just read through some of that thread, and I don't think I've ever seen a more self-important person on the internet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

What if you like having sex?

Hell, weren't those Washington DC call girls something like $10k+ a night? I think all of them had at least a college education (or more), and certainly could have gotten a job elsewhere if they had wanted.

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

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Put succinctly, lots of people dislike prostitution. They don't want their loved ones involved so they extend (force?) this view onto the people they care about: family, friends, community, an entire city, etc, etc, etc.

I wouldn't want my kid to work in porn, but I certainly don't mind other people's kids doing it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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However, I'd like government to use its power to lift people out of poverty rather than create more means for them to live in it.

What if prostitution gets them out/keeps them out of poverty?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Most people work at McDonald's for less than six months, should we shut them down? I imagine a number of people going into prostitution have some sort of glamorized version going on in their head where they just get to go WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO all day, but then find out it is really is a form of work.

Heck, one of my good friends in undergrad was a stripper. I'm sure pretty much everyone out there considers that a fairly degrading job, but she said it was a lot of fun, and earned her a lot of money in a little bit of time, so she's have plenty left over for her studies (double majoring in engineering plus a minor in technical writing while editing a textbook for one of our professors was a fairly time consuming commitment to begin with).

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

But if someone wants those wages, what's to stop them from becoming a prostitute even after all of those government opportunities you want to happen suddenly appear?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Tamburlaine

Whatever, what do I have to prove to you, you go to some shit school in Canada. Good luck with your shit career and your shitty receding hair line.

I am gonna go to Yale Law and I will make bank, you stupid fucking cunt. What do I care what some fat community college graduates think in an internet forum.

Caltech PhD here. Does that count for any nerd-cred or whatnot.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?