Prostitution should it be legal?
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Alcohol was around a lot longer than an on the site test that was developed to tell levels of intoxication has been. Our society didn't shut down because because of it, even after cars were invented but before breathalyzers were around. I don't see marijuana being different.
Legalizing prostitution industries are one of the root causes of sex trafficking. One argument for legalizing prostitution in the Netherlands was that legalization would help end the exploitation of desperate immigrant women trafficked for prostitution. A report done for the governmental Budapest Group* stated that 80% of women in the brothels in the Netherlands are trafficked from other countries. As early as 1994, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) stated that in the Netherlands alone, "nearly 70 per cent of trafficked women were from Central and Eastern European Countries."
The government of the Netherlands promotes itself as the champion of anti-trafficking policies and programs, yet cynically has removed every legal impediment to pimping, procurement and brothels. In the year 2000, the Dutch Ministry of Justice argued for a legal quota of foreign "sex workers," because the Dutch prostitution market demands a variety of "bodies".
Also in the year 2000, the Dutch government sought and received a judgment from the European Court recognizing prostitution as an economic activity, thus enabling women from the EU and former Soviet bloc countries to obtain working permits as "sex workers" in the Dutch sex industry if they can prove that they are self employed. NGOs in the Netherlands have stated that traffickers are taking advantage of this ruling to bring foreign women into the Dutch prostitution industry by masking the fact that women have been trafficked, and by coaching the women how to prove that they are self-employed "migrant sex workers."
In the one year since lifting the ban on brothels in the Netherlands, NGOs report that there has been an increase of victims of trafficking or, at best, that the number of victims from other countries has remained the same. Forty-three municipalities in the Netherlands want to follow a no-brothel policy, but the Minister of Justice has indicated that the complete banning of prostitution within any municipality could conflict with "the right to free choice of work" as guaranteed in the federal Grondwet or Constitution.
In January, 2002, prostitution in Germany was fully established as a legitimate job after years of being legalized in so-called eros or tolerance zones. Promotion of prostitution, pimping and brothels are now legal in Germany. As early as 1993, after the first steps towards legalization had been taken, it was recognized (even by pro-prostitution advocates) that 75 per cent of the women in Germany's prostitution industry were foreigners from Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and other countries in South America. After the fall of the Berlin wall, brothel owners reported that 9 out of every 10 women in the German sex industry were from eastern Europe and other former Soviet countries.
The sheer volume of foreign women who are in the prostitution industry in Germany - by some NGO estimates now up to 85 per cent - casts further doubt on the fact that these numbers of women could have entered Germany without facilitation. As in the Netherlands, NGOs report that most of the foreign women have been trafficked into the country since it is almost impossible for poor women to facilitate their own migration, underwrite the costs of travel and travel documents, and set themselves up in "business" without outside help.
The link between legalization of prostitution and trafficking in Australia was recognized in the U.S. State Department's 1999 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In the country report on Australia, it was noted that in the State of Victoria which legalized prostitution in the 1980s, "Trafficking in East Asian women for the sex trade is a growing problem" in Australia…lax laws - including legalized prostitution in parts of the country - make [anti-trafficking] enforcement difficult at the working level."
The government of the Netherlands promotes itself as the champion of anti-trafficking policies and programs, yet cynically has removed every legal impediment to pimping, procurement and brothels. In the year 2000, the Dutch Ministry of Justice argued for a legal quota of foreign "sex workers," because the Dutch prostitution market demands a variety of "bodies".
Also in the year 2000, the Dutch government sought and received a judgment from the European Court recognizing prostitution as an economic activity, thus enabling women from the EU and former Soviet bloc countries to obtain working permits as "sex workers" in the Dutch sex industry if they can prove that they are self employed. NGOs in the Netherlands have stated that traffickers are taking advantage of this ruling to bring foreign women into the Dutch prostitution industry by masking the fact that women have been trafficked, and by coaching the women how to prove that they are self-employed "migrant sex workers."
In the one year since lifting the ban on brothels in the Netherlands, NGOs report that there has been an increase of victims of trafficking or, at best, that the number of victims from other countries has remained the same. Forty-three municipalities in the Netherlands want to follow a no-brothel policy, but the Minister of Justice has indicated that the complete banning of prostitution within any municipality could conflict with "the right to free choice of work" as guaranteed in the federal Grondwet or Constitution.
In January, 2002, prostitution in Germany was fully established as a legitimate job after years of being legalized in so-called eros or tolerance zones. Promotion of prostitution, pimping and brothels are now legal in Germany. As early as 1993, after the first steps towards legalization had been taken, it was recognized (even by pro-prostitution advocates) that 75 per cent of the women in Germany's prostitution industry were foreigners from Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and other countries in South America. After the fall of the Berlin wall, brothel owners reported that 9 out of every 10 women in the German sex industry were from eastern Europe and other former Soviet countries.
The sheer volume of foreign women who are in the prostitution industry in Germany - by some NGO estimates now up to 85 per cent - casts further doubt on the fact that these numbers of women could have entered Germany without facilitation. As in the Netherlands, NGOs report that most of the foreign women have been trafficked into the country since it is almost impossible for poor women to facilitate their own migration, underwrite the costs of travel and travel documents, and set themselves up in "business" without outside help.
The link between legalization of prostitution and trafficking in Australia was recognized in the U.S. State Department's 1999 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In the country report on Australia, it was noted that in the State of Victoria which legalized prostitution in the 1980s, "Trafficking in East Asian women for the sex trade is a growing problem" in Australia…lax laws - including legalized prostitution in parts of the country - make [anti-trafficking] enforcement difficult at the working level."
Kingfisher
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Yes. It's just like McDonalds. It's a service between two not containing any sort of illegal or mind altering substance so don't equate the two.
You pay a plumber, a mechanic, and they provide a service. You pay a taxi driver, he provides a service. There's no reason that prostitutes shouldn't be legal, plus the states would get revenue from certs to make sure they're healthy and pimp free.
What and who stop this from happening. The religious-right. God forbid a woman use her beauty and crotch to make money.
You pay a plumber, a mechanic, and they provide a service. You pay a taxi driver, he provides a service. There's no reason that prostitutes shouldn't be legal, plus the states would get revenue from certs to make sure they're healthy and pimp free.
What and who stop this from happening. The religious-right. God forbid a woman use her beauty and crotch to make money.
Actually some women do pay some men for sex. I know this first hand.
Honestly, heaps of places have legal prostitution. Like the city I live in, Canberra, Australias CAPTIAL. Legal brothels, no pimps, govt health checks, no sex slaves, hot girls can do it safely to pay for university or just 'cos they want to.
Because its regulated its kept to one, nominated part of town with no residential housing nearby and no streetwalkers. If u want to pay for sex, u go there. Simple. No criminals, underage girls or risk. Its like a tanning salon.
Amsterdam has done ok with legal pro's too, one of europes great cities.
Why are american cities where por's are illegal so violent?
A few male for female pro's here too. There is a growing market.
Because its regulated its kept to one, nominated part of town with no residential housing nearby and no streetwalkers. If u want to pay for sex, u go there. Simple. No criminals, underage girls or risk. Its like a tanning salon.
Amsterdam has done ok with legal pro's too, one of europes great cities.
Why are american cities where por's are illegal so violent?
A few male for female pro's here too. There is a growing market.
Prostitution is illegal today in the US primarily for one reason, because southern polititicians were successful in making the case that it was a mechanism that allowed black men to consort with white women (see Harrison Tax act and subsequent law). Sad but true.
If the government legalized Prostitution and weed they will not only save hundreds of millions in law enforcement but they will also be able to regulate it and make tons of money in tax money, but I guess the government will never do it because religious rights will use it to win elections and the next GOP Prez or Congress will outlaw it again.
yes, it should be. I think it help the economy as well as control the spread of STDs.
Agree except that I think it will be a GOP president that will legalize weed, not sure about prostitution. They really should do both... and tax them like you said, and help pay down our massive debt with the proceeds. People are going to do both anyway...
Lisa Brunet
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Here in The Netherlands Prostitution (it is one of the oldest occupation in the world) and marijuana are legal.
I think that's the best way. So the girls are also having healthinsurance and terms of employment. So there will be no abuse of the ladies. Ok there is always a underground but thats also in the construction!
And about marijuana, when people want to use it they will always find a place to buy.
So when it's leagel there is less illegal trade and criminality. And the stuff is from better quality
Sweet kisses,
Lisa Brunet
I think that's the best way. So the girls are also having healthinsurance and terms of employment. So there will be no abuse of the ladies. Ok there is always a underground but thats also in the construction!
And about marijuana, when people want to use it they will always find a place to buy.
So when it's leagel there is less illegal trade and criminality. And the stuff is from better quality
Sweet kisses,
Lisa Brunet
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Here in The Netherlands Prostitution (it is one of the oldest occupation in the world) and marijuana are legal.
I think that's the best way. So the girls are also having healthinsurance and terms of employment. So there will be no abuse of the ladies. Ok there is always a underground but thats also in the construction!
And about marijuana, when people want to use it they will always find a place to buy.
So when it's leagel there is less illegal trade and criminality. And the stuff is from better quality
Sweet kisses,
Lisa Brunet
A big fuckin' co-sign on the things you said bout Prostitution!
I dunno why they still don't fuckin' legalize it in America, but I know the answer on this thread : Hell Yeah they should legalize it! Why shouldn't they? It'd be a much nicer town to live in if your town would have a local red light district!
Trevesty
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I had sex with a 9 last night, for free, and fully support legalization of prostitution(as well as drugs..).
I don't use drugs either.
EXACTLY!!!:hatsoff:
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