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ORIGINAL: apettiger
i just read a thread about legalizing drugs and wonder how many, if any of Y/you think prostitution should be legal.........
tell me what YOU think.

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

HaveRopeWillBind:
I have no idea how to respond to someone who is against legal prostitution but in favor of illegal prostitution.
thompson

Thompson,
I am not an advocate for either. I was simply saying that if it were to be legalized then it should be legal only in controlled areas.
Isn't that what zoning laws are for?

If not and it were legal just anywhere you would wind up with kids being solicited on school yards or playgrounds. College campuses in particular would be hot spots.
Why would anyone put a butt hut next to prepubescent non customers?
Now college campuses that is a different thing.  If you are old enough to vote you are old enough to fuck.

By doing this in legal zones that sort of thing is controlled without overly infringing on the overall business.
That is not what your original post said.
I'm not an advocate of legal prostitution, but I do think that if it is ever done that it should be implemented with a kind of legal zone. Boston has something unofficial like this in the area known as Red Square. The police pretty much ignore prostitutes so long as they stay in that one square block area
This says you want to keep it illegal.  This says that the cops give it a wink and a nod until they want to fuck with someone then they can get all righteous and claim it is illegal and yadda yadda yadda.
This is what is called selective enforcement.  If this is not two faced sniveling how would you characterize it?
You want to keep it illegal but you want to be able to sneak down and get a little on the sly.
This speaks directly to moral character...one of the requirements for a pilots license.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

Thompson,
I am not an advocate for either. I was simply saying that if it were to be legalized then it should be legal only in controlled areas. If not and it were legal just anywhere you would wind up with kids being solicited on school yards or playgrounds.

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ORIGINAL: CrimsonMoan

Ok since my home town and home state were roped in have to bring my two cents in. AS to why there are Brothels in Northern Nevada and not las vegas talk to the voters, the men witht he money and the legislators. Two about 3 miles are so from the strip headed down toward the  'Nawlins Casion is whats refered to as the track. The street gals walk up and down the track day and night cold or hot. Its a pain in the ass becuase it does get cold in vegas. As for Escort hanging out in the casinos....they do. You just don't know it unless you are looking for it. Case in point the a few of the popular night clubs are open tuesdays and wednesday, now your average person doesn't start partyign til thursday at the earliest.

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ORIGINAL: petdave

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Legalize drugs and prostitution and we could stop filling up the jails while making society safer.

Hm, but what about asset forfeitures? In a number of municipalities, police conduct sting operations using an undercover cop acting as a streetwalker. If you drive up to the curb and attempt to conduct a transaction with her, you've just used your auto in the commission of a crime- which means it is confiscated, sold at auction, and the proceeds go to the city. Same for drug sales. Kaching!

And if you were a cop, would you rather spend a bunch of time trying to hunt up some violent criminal who's probably armed and too terribly excited about returning to prison, or rounding up blase whores who see it as a cost of doing business?

Won't somebody please think of the bureaucrats?


...dave

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ORIGINAL: apettiger

i believe that if something is illegal and one does it anyway, then they must pay the price for breaking that law, even if that includes property forfitures or jail time. but what i am talking about is ending the chance of a single mother, with no marketable skills losing everything she has because she is doing her best to bring her children up in as normal a way as she can. i know from first hand experience that a moral few are not into it for the drugs or excitement, but to send their children to private schools or at the very least, supply them with a safe warm home, decent clothes, shoes and well balanced meals. if it is illegal when you do it, then you must pay the price for breaking the law, but i see this as a useless, harmful law law that should be struck down.
and yes, the argument that "it will be done, illegal or not" opens the door for the statement "just because it will happen anyway is no reason to legalize something, murder happens anyway". but having prostitution illegal causes almost as much harm as making murder legal could.
a lot of the people who work the streets (by the way there are a fair number of males that do this for a living too, so it is not all female) would embrace the idea of working out of an office and staying off the streets and would have no problem with working in a "zone" most of these people do not want to break up families (as stated before, many of them have children they are trying to raise).
of course there are "crack whores" who do not care who, how, or where they ply their trade. it is not about bettering their or their childrens lives, but the drugs, but once it is regulated, the crack whores will diminish. mainly because they wont be able to find clients. who really would want to spend their money on somene who could very well kill them, either outright or later by some diesease?
and of course there will eventually be corruption, hell there is corruption in most businesses and this would be an easy target. but even with the inherent corruption, the workers would be better off.