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We can argue over the morality of prostitution, but it's not all about men victimizing women.
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  • one thing I think EVERYONE can agree on:

    when it comes to sex people are insane

  • In both cases, the men, the ones who paid to fuck a person much less fortunate than themselves

    is it ok then if the person who I pay to fuck is more fortunate than myself.

    becasue they certainly have more sexual opportunities and and often more moeny than I do.

  • Hee Hee, And seriously for a moment

    I don't see ... a male equivalent of Victoria's Secret

    "...because only gay men consider those things worth paying for. I was hoping that once it became clear that gay men are interested in men in the same way that straight men are interested in women that the female belief that male sexuality is a conspiracy against women would abate. Obviously this hasn't happened." --Dick Dworkin

    Thanks for the funniest thing I've read in weeks.

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    The way the professional (meaning real budget, not reality-TV style) porn industry works is that the female actors choose who they'll work with.

    How evil would prostitution legalized with that condition?

    A guy who wants a prostitute can do nothing more than show up. If no prostitute will work with him, he keeps his money and goes home.

    (Wait...just make sure we don't already have that. A singles bar?)

  • actually a lot of girls who work online on their own DO require a meet and greet before

    they will commit to anything, and they DO turn people down.

  • by the way tina prostitution has no more an intrinsitic relationship to rape than being employed or going to college does

    so it's kind of intellectually sleazy of you to blend the two together.

  • Legalizing makes it worse - read the UN reports - or the violence against women in areas of legalizationOn several articles we've been over it -- everyone seems to believe that legalizing it will make the problems associated with the industry go away.

    On several articles we've been over it -- everyone seems to believe that legalizing it will make the problems associated with the industry go away.

    But it is legal in some places -- read the UN human trafficking reports and you know what conclusions they come to? Making it legal makes it worse, and harder to control the worse effects of prostitution.

    Netherlands -- its legal -- but there are not enough women who want to be in business, so the Russian mafia solved the supply and demand issue, they kidnap young women from the Eastern European counties and sell them into the trade. These women and children doesn't speak the local language , scared out of their minds. Now human trafficking is a problem in all of Europe -- but in the Netherlands it is worse, because the legal hides the illegal, and makes it hard to make a case, and arrest the traffickers.

    Also like Nevada - Thailand, Netherlands -- places around areas were it is legal, sexual violence against all women increases. Since some women are legal sexually objects -- it lowers all women’s status, and endangers them.

    Experts who deal with the crimes around prostitution like human trafficking, highly recommend not legalizing it -- not because they really care if a few high end (what a really small percent of the industry) feel their rights are put upon, because legalize it endangers all women in the area, and to prevent trafficking -- which for those unclear on the concept, is kidnapping, beating, raping, and selling of a human being, usually a minor ... is bad for everyone, including women who would never work in the industry.

    According to the UN - human trafficking is the no 3 crime after drugs, and gun smuggling, and is posed to take the number two spot. Legalize prostitution in more areas, will guarantee its jump up the list.