Well, to me, it’s not just a job nor is it sexual assault.
Sex is not just a thing, it’s a powerful and innately human action that is the basis for almost everything in existence.
In not just a past time or side hobby, even though some people may practice it this way or see it as something casual it is not for the majority of humans that have ever existed.
There’s a reason certain chemical reactions spawn before, during, and after sex.
It’s a whole evolutionary reasoning.
There’s a biology, physiology, psychology, and all other manners of science associated with sex and it’s impact on society and the human psyche.
To create a job out of making this a casual interaction is bound to doom society and those who participate in it.
We are seeing that now.
You think the prostitution and/or porn community is glitz, glamor, and all fun?
Behind all of that is drugs, abuse, depression, suicide, etc.
It’s a bright and shiny curtain that hides all manners of dread backstage.
It’s that nice man that treats you well at work, but abuses his family at home.
It’s that dictator that gives you money, resources, planes, and all other war items in exchange for partnership, all while enslaving his country/people.
Sex should be a special thing
Sex should be taken seriously
Not because of religion
Because of humanity and sanity
I do agree with a lot of this. But I guess where’s the line? Charlize Theron simulating a sex scene for a film? It’s a matter of degrees from actress, stripper, lap dancer, prostitute.
So this is an unpopular opinion in my side of the politics but here it is,
prostitution should be illegal in a business like setting, They were for a long time they were called brothels, If you could go to a business pay for sex go for it but the regulations should be they get tested for STD once a week, paid by the business (write it off as a tax expense). Street workers you couldn’t test for STDs like a normal business setting so that should still be illegal
That’s sounds like the NV law that legalizes prostuition.
It’s hard work & should be legal, safe, and sanctioned across the board.
So you disagree with the tweets above?
I wholeheartedly disagree with both of those tweets, they are absurd, hysterical, & missing the point. I agree with John Oliver 100%
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!Fundamentally, I think the people are looking at this too much from a moral perspective and laws as an effective way to enforce their moral views. I don't think the law has anything to do with morality and I don't think making/keeping things illegal is without perverse incentives that could possibly be worse than the costs associated with making things legal.
If I confused anyone by saying the law has nothing to do with morality, I see laws as intended to protect people and their property in society and organize society with a sense of order and structure. That overlaps somewhat with morality but if it was about enforcing morality, then lying should be illegal, for example. But what would a society look like that makes lying illegal? Is it actually a better society than the one we live in now? It's the wrong way to look at law as I see it to say, "this is immoral, therefore it should be illegal," or "this is not immoral, therefore it should be legal."
So I think the proper question to ask is if society is better or worse off with prostitution being legal or illegal regardless of our moral views on it, and we should discuss the possible pros and cons of both. If it remains illegal in places like the US, then we know certain that there are over a million gang members in circulation forming a massive underground economy with human trafficking and prostitution as a large source of profit besides drugs and arms trafficking, that law enforcers invest enormous resources into prostitution stings which they might be able to dedicate elsewhere, and so forth, that the women involved are often abused, clients sometimes arrested. We know at least those kinds of costs associated with how things are now.
Meanwhile, it's difficult to forecast what would happen if it were legal except that many of the existing costs of it being illegal would be mitigated. Perhaps there would be an increase in people seeking prostitutes if it were legal. Perhaps more people will cheat on their partners with prostitutes. There are interesting questions there but that's how I think we should be looking at this and discussing this.
If it was a sexual assault then why he paying her for it?
Exactly
In the UK it is a job and is taxed accordingly.
There's prostitution, where a woman willingly engages in sex for money, and there's the sex trade, where a woman is forced, against her will, to have sex.
The former is a job. The latter is sexual assault.
With prostitution illegal in many places, sex trade is encouraged. If prostitution were legalized and regulated, including regular health checks (like in Nevada and Amsterdam), the sex trade, that violates women and degrades them, would be much less.
Firstly completely agreed. But I guess these people are seeing a blurred line. Since most prosts have drug addictions, maybe even abusive pimp boyfriends. So is that still different from sex trade?
It is a temporary contractual agreement between consenting persons wherein things of value are exchanged. Kind of like renting a car.
Agree 100%
@Tamera952 My usual boiler plate on this is: Sex work should be de-criminalized, licensed, regulated and taxed. Special attention should be given to criminal activity such as drug abuse and sex trafficking.
It's a job that should be legal so it can be taxed and safer
Agree 100%
I am not saying that no prostitutes are sexually assulted, but not all are.
It is a voluntary job.
Prostitution is no different than any other service industry. A service is provided in exchange for money between two consenting adults. Nothing more, nothing less. The only people who take issue with it are religious nutters and victim-minded liberal freaks.
Why do we as a society even listen to the whining children anymore?
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