No. We have states. Let states decide this matter. Let there be different laws to meet the values of the people in those states.
But you likely will run into the bootlegger and preacher situation: organized crime and preachers will team up to fight such a law albeit for different reasons.
Also, not sure how you make it a constitutional right or why it needs to be as opposed to any other profession.
Just imagine you are having sex with a woman who has seen 10 men that same day and hundreds or thousands over the course of a year. Gross. And you had to pay for it, haha. You had to pay a woman for attention.
One can argue that dating is prostitution just with no guarantee.
Also, it is not my choice but that does not mean it is not someone else's.
Sure though it needs to be regulated and taxed like other vice such as gambling and alcohol, which requires a further expansion of government. Maybe libertarians and liberals are good with brothels popping up next to schools and churches or their parking lots used for HJs and BJs, but the majority of Americans are certainly not.
It could be regulated as other industries are, except apparently in Houston...(it has no zoning laws of note).
To quote Sydney Biddle Barrows, "If you can give it away, why can't you sell it?"
Clean up the health concerns, eliminate the criminal element and tax it.... what's the bad part of legalization?
The ONLY bad part of legalization is that since everyone will now know that this activity is seemed as fine in the eyes of society, that there would likely be an INCREASE in illegal prostitution (likely cheaper). So, to combat that, we should make very stiff (no pun intended) penalties for prostitutes and johns who operate outside of the legal activity.
Are you also going to legalize the human trafficking that comes along with prostitution? The main issue isn’t there is more demand than supply. The real issue is the sheer number of women who are forced into this against their will. But incels gonna incel.
Is there human trafficking in the brothels in NV? I could make an argument that it could decrease that as the worker would have legal avenues open to her (or him). As it is now, a pimp beats up a prostitute and the police and not likely to pursue that case very aggressively and an ADA likely is not going to take it to trial either.
To quote Sydney Biddle Barrows, "If you can give it away, why can't you sell it?"
Clean up the health concerns, eliminate the criminal element and tax it.... what's the bad part of legalization?
The ONLY bad part of legalization is that since everyone will now know that this activity is seemed as fine in the eyes of society, that there would likely be an INCREASE in illegal prostitution (likely cheaper). So, to combat that, we should make very stiff (no pun intended) penalties for prostitutes and johns who operate outside of the legal activity.
Many European countries make it a crime for the procurer but not the provider...
No. It's already federally legal in the sense that there's no federal law against it. I assume you mean, should the federal government override state and local laws against it... definitely not.
Prostitution is already tolerated in most cities. The enforcement is designed to keep it off the streets and out of sight, not really police the act itself.
Several western countries have legalized prostitution. They pretty much all have issues with human trafficking and the like. The problem is the pay isn't high enough to make it worth while for most people in developed countries.
Good point. If it were regulated the way people want it to, it would probably be way too expensive for most people to do legally
Ask yourself this question and you get right answer; Would you like your son or daughter to be a prostitute??
As long as they were safe, I would rest a lot easier. And by safe I mean not only using condoms, oral dams etc but that they had protection and legal recourse, employee rights, etc.
There are 11mm (22mm? 33mm?) undocumented workers in the US who are there because entire industries *require* that they have no rights or recourse. If these industries had to pay working wages and provide OSHA safeguards etc, they would go out of business. The US has a long history of denying human beings their rights as employees, so it is not surprising that these same people would choose to deny rights to sex workers.
It probably should be legal. The only reason it isn't legal is because of the things associated with it (drugs, crime...and the act itself is a crime, so...). Legalization won't eliminate those other evils, but I would expect a gradual shift and then separation as with the prohibition of alcohol.
Now then, think of a world where prostition is legal...the term "incel" is useless. Since it's used in a sense of mocking derision toward a group of people who probably haven't done anything to deserve it except lose the genetic lottery, I think it's a net positive for everyone.
If there is money to be made, a criminal element will always exist whether the act is legal or not. Again, how do you deal with the human trafficking aspect of prostitution? There aren’t thousands of women sitting around ready to be hookers only stopped now because it is illegal (if you think that is the case, it’s no wonder you have to pay for sex). Demand will increase which will require more women and we will see an increase of trafficking, particularly from poorer countries where the women are forced into slavery essentially. This the great lie of prostitution. More often than not, it is not “two consenting adults.”
Your concerns over trafficking are justified. How do you measure trafficking, though?
And the argument I made about legalized prostitution is similar in reasoning to legalized narcotics...yes, there is a possibility of real harm done. It's a tradeoff.
Lastly, you say that as demand increases, more women will be trafficked. I don't agree. Per the laws of supply and demand, what increases with demand is *price* not supply.
Are you also going to legalize the human trafficking that comes along with prostitution? The main issue isn’t there is more demand than supply. The real issue is the sheer number of women who are forced into this against their will. But incels gonna incel.
I don't think your post makes sense. Making prostitution legal and appropriately regulated should reduce human trafficking, not increase it.
Further, the notion that legalizing transactions between consenting adults is somehow the same as legalizing human trafficking (by definition, an act involving a non-consenting person) is beyond id!otic.
Countries with legal prostitution have more human trafficking than those where prostitution is illegal. Legalizing prostitution increases demand, and there are not enough women in this country willing to have sex with you regardless of how much money you might be willing to pay for the service. Legalizing prostitution would create a bigger problem than exists with it illegal. Cartels would love it if prostitution were to be legalized as you desire.
Your concerns over trafficking are justified. How do you measure trafficking, though?
And the argument I made about legalized prostitution is similar in reasoning to legalized narcotics...yes, there is a possibility of real harm done. It's a tradeoff.
Lastly, you say that as demand increases, more women will be trafficked. I don't agree. Per the laws of supply and demand, what increases with demand is *price* not supply.
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
Take a look at Europe. They essentially kidnap young women from eastern Europe and Africa under false pretenses, get them hooked on drugs, pay off local cops and run them into the ground.
The study’s findings include: Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows. The effect of legal prostitution on human trafficking inflows is stronger in high-income countries than middle-income countries. Because trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation requires that clients in a potential destination country have sufficient purchasing power, domestic supply acts as a constraint. Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization. The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization. Democracies have a higher probability of increased human-trafficking inflows than non-democratic countries. There is a 13.4% higher probability of receiving higher inflows in a democratic country than otherwise.
Are you also going to legalize the human trafficking that comes along with prostitution? The main issue isn’t there is more demand than supply. The real issue is the sheer number of women who are forced into this against their will. But incels gonna incel.
I don't think your post makes sense. Making prostitution legal and appropriately regulated should reduce human trafficking, not increase it.
And yet, as a few pointed out, legalizing marijuana increased black market trading, because it caused increased overall demand.
I don't think your post makes sense. Making prostitution legal and appropriately regulated should reduce human trafficking, not increase it.
And yet, as a few pointed out, legalizing marijuana increased black market trading, because it caused increased overall demand.
That's not what the Politico/Oregon article seems to say.
From the Article: "Economist Beau Whitney estimates that 80-85 percent of the state’s demand is met by the legal market. But most of the illicit weed grown in southern Oregon is leaving the state, heading to places where legal weed is still not available for purchase such as New York or Pennsylvania — or where the legal price is still very high, like Chicago and Los Angeles."
The black market is not thriving because weed has been legalized everywhere. It is thriving because there is demand in places where it remains illegal or overly taxed/regulated.
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