The Never Ending Debate on Prostitution Options

[fameONE]

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.

[Tung]

Wow, I was going to make a topic about this Steven but you beat me to it. Was just learning about this in lecture last week. Anyways. I think what Chrissy said sums up where I stand on this.

Plus do you know the rise of STDs?... lol Cheese dick, cheese clit, drip dick, drip clit... ugh.
As to how it would become an epidemic? With prostitution (and I gotta find this government site so I can back this up) it is known that men tend to lean towards "raw/unprotected sex" I'm not saying all prostitutes have STDs but some do and some will. Same with men who are looking for a few minutes/hour of fun, they might have STDs or even HIV but who's to stop them? The woman wants money like the man wants pussy. It's mutual.

That's why it is better to legalize so we can regulate the Prostitute Business. The client and clientèle will have AID/STD checkups daily. I mean, if we don't legalize this, prostitution will still occur no matter what, and they are higher at risks for STDs because they either don't know it, or they don't care because nobody will know. Regulating the clients will make prostitution more "cleaner".

I know prostitution has always existed... all I'm implying is, the numbers of divorces alone in a time period of a year would rise even more. Legalizing or making it easier access to getting laid when your woman is out of town, or she's on her period, or assume she's cheating would only cause a problem that could have been avoided.

I don't think it would make it easier access. I mean regardless, go to the slums or downtown. There's clients all over the streets just waiting for customers. How is that not easier access than say to regulate prostitution?


Also taxing prostitutes, would be very beneficial economically wise. There are some cities who legalize it and tax on it already, and it has helped them economically. You might say, yes prostitutes wouldn't want a share of their earnings to go to the government, but legalizing it would make it a very safer and better condition for them to work in. They get to be more professional about it, and they would get to pick their customers through a full checkup. It would decrease the number of pimps and the violence that goes around in the Prostitution business. Overall, I see some of the drawbacks, but there are way more benefits to legalizing it.

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That's why it is better to legalize so we can regulate the Prostitute Business. The client and clientèle will have AID/STD checkups daily. I mean, if we don't legalize this, prostitution will still occur no matter what, and they are higher at risks for STDs because they either don't know it, or they don't care because nobody will know. Regulating the clients will make prostitution more "cleaner".

So basically you want the government to spend more money than it would receive in order for prostitution to be clean, legitimate, and anti-viral?

And I agree even if it wasn't legalized, prostitution is gonna exist.

I don't think it would make it easier access. I mean regardless, go to the slums or downtown. There's clients all over the streets just waiting for customers. How is that not easier access than say to regulate prostitution?

I think it would. Easier access because people don't have to go through a mission just to talk to the prostitute to begin with. There's no worrying about under cover female cops just waitin for you to say, "how much" just to bust you and put a nasty mark on your background.

It's also easier access because if it becomes legal, it won't only exist in slums. It'll exist in any part of the country. Whether it's in high class towns, middle class, or low class. It'll be legal to exist just about anywhere. Bowling allies, clubs, bars, disney world lol...

Also taxing prostitutes, would be very beneficial economically wise. There are some cities who legalize it and tax on it already, and it has helped them economically. You might say, yes prostitutes wouldn't want a share of their earnings to go to the government, but legalizing it would make it a very safer and better condition for them to work in.

Can you give me your source? Only place that I know of where prostitution is legal and taxed, is in Europe, well Germany. And it's not the "per sale" that's being taxed, it's the "property" tax in which houses the prostitution. On top of that, the legalization of prostitution is actually causing problems in parts of Europe, in terms of politics, they thought the people wanted legalized prostitution, but it looks like the people want it unlegalized.


Guys, the argument that not only legalizing but making people who are involved with prostitution (women and men) get tested for STDs and HIV is just ridiculous.

If you were to make every employee and customer get a 100% analytical STD/HIV test done, it would cost about $3000 per head, depending the location of course. A prostitute or a company of prostitutes is not gonna charge some loser from the slums over $3000 just for some damn head. Keep in mind that this business has to pay bills, taxes, and it's employees, while also payin for every drug test on every single employee (prostitute) and client. lol

[Tung]

Can you give me your source? Only place that I know of where prostitution is legal and taxed, is in Europe, well Germany. And it's not the "per sale" that's being taxed, it's the "property" tax in which houses the prostitution. On top of that, the legalization of prostitution is actually causing problems in parts of Europe, in terms of politics, they thought the people wanted legalized prostitution, but it looks like the people want it unlegalized.

There's only a couple of states, and Nevada is one of them. There are brothel houses, and they are legalized and regulated extremely. These prositutes are consider independent contractors, meaning that they don't get the label as being unemployed, or retired. Therefore, they are required to file tax to the IRS.

It's actually been studied that ever since 1986, which was when they actually started having a mandatory testing of HIV/STDS before being employed by the brothel, there was not even one single brothel house that tested positive. Then two years later of course, they had another law that required you to wear condoms, and the use of condoms were very consistent and STDS were absent.