The Never Ending Debate on Prostitution Options

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The title alone should speak for itself.

From time to time, I'll turn on my digital cable box in the midst of my insomnia to find something erotic in nature, or just downright kinky on the major movie channels. Last night, at around 2am, I flip on HBO and found myself fixated on a documentary following the business and girls of the Bunny Ranch in Nevada. I had never even heard of a legal brothel so my jaw dropped. Along with the entertainment, I went along watching this hour long show attempting to morally justify someone's pastor concealing his identity and helping out their business. Being that this country is run by the moral majority, I still tried to way the pros of a possible decriminalisation on a wider scale.

Already there are brothels run legally all over Nevada; Las Vegas (of course), Reno, Carson City, Beatty, Hawthorne, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko and Wells. If its already legal there, don't you think its just a matter of time before its legal across the country? Imagine driving up the highway and seeing whorehouses instead of XXX Megaplexes.

So, I ask all of you. Do you think its wrong? Or do you think that in this free country a woman should be allowed to sell her body for cash.

[*Steven*]

Legalized marijuana would be fine. People are lazy, and would rather buy from a pharmacy instead of buying from someone who they can get arrested for dealing w/. Besides, prostitutes don't get most of the money they earn, their pimp does (Assuming they have a pimp). Prostitutes get abused by their buyer and their pimp, and I think they'd gladly pay taxes when they're earning 5 times what they were before.

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Legalized marijuana would be fine. People are lazy, and would rather buy from a pharmacy instead of buying from someone who they can get arrested for dealing w/. Besides, prostitutes don't get most of the money they earn, their pimp does (Assuming they have a pimp). Prostitutes get abused by their buyer and their pimp, and I think they'd gladly pay taxes when they're earning 5 times what they were before.

Not only would it be impossible to tax prostitution... but legalizing that alone would cause even more divorces, more futures of children destroyed, more broken families =\

i think if they're gonna legalize it then give them medical coverage too. god knows what they can get from their customers and pass on.

Nah because that would be a big liability. Plus it would become an epidemic beyond belief.

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but legalizing that alone would cause even more divorces, more futures of children destroyed, more broken families =\

Honestly, people are going to get divorces regardless, there are going to be broken families no matter what. I don't really think that prostitution would have much of an effect on this. Besides, prostitution is around right now anyway. Also, if a couple gets a divorce because the husband or wife cheated on the other by means of prostitution, then there is clearly an underlying problem within that couple and the person who cheated. Again, people CHOOSE to engage in prostitution, so it would be that person's morals or whatever that would and should be judged if they engage in it when they have commitments to another. I don't think prostitution would be a reason for there to be an increase in divorces or broken families. IMO the person's character/morals/beliefs (or lack thereof) are really what is the root problem in divorces and broken families.

How would it become an epidemic? If there were health codes put in place, then in theory, then the spread and contracting of diseases should decrease. Then those that are already in prostitution could maybe be treated for whatever they might already have or they would be "fired" from their job.