NEW ZEALAND legalises prostitution

The Press [Christchurch, New Zealand] ^ | June 26 2002

[SevenDaysInMay]

A thought: HAMAS translates as ZEAL.

A question: How does a hooker kick back and celebrate?

A forecast: The Islamists' Sharia will repeal this act, and stone to death those who voted for it among the fornicators, male and female. But killing the girls is the fun part of Islam.

[bedolido]

true... to a point. There is no product in question when you purchase your lady friend dinner, or a BMW, if she wants to enjoy a special time with you, she can and will.

Purchasing a female body part for your use for a short period of time is not the same. In one you haven't bought her, you've bought her dinner. In the other, you've bought a few inches of her anatomy for temporary pleasure.

demeaning... yes.

[EggsAckley]

Didn't New Zealand just ban cow farts??

[Onelifetogive]

Maybe you should offer another $150? ;)

If you had seen her, you would have thought $50 was high....

[bedolido]

Didn't New Zealand just ban cow farts??

Methane expressing may be illegal. Bovine Methane is sometimes released during cow-tipping parties.

[spitz]

Does this mean NZ will reinstate the ‘ Whore house of the South Pacific’ label it once had? Hehe.

[Cicero]

I'm curious about this fellow Ashraf Choudhary. It's not really true that he "opposed the bill," as the article states, or he would have voted against it. Also, is he a Muslim, as this article says? I know several Chaudherys and Choudharys, and they are Indians of Sikh extraction. That doesn't necessarily mean that this one is, of course.

Did the Labour whip refuse to release party members to vote their consciences on this? It seems a very curious bill for the party to take that kind of approach to. Normally it's only done on really important bills, budgets and the like.

[Onelifetogive]

Purchasing a female body part for your use for a short period of time is not the same.

Like the hands of a chiropractor. Can't allow that! My chiropractor can exchange dinner for an adjustment, but shouldn't do it for cash?

[freeeee]

In one you haven't bought her, you've bought her dinner. In the other, you've bought a few inches of her anatomy for temporary pleasure.

No one buys prostitutes. If they did, they'd own them after the fact. / painfully obvious

One pays a prostitute for services in the same way they'd pay a message therapist or a chiropractor.

[Onelifetogive]

Purchasing a female body part for your use for a short period of time is not the same.

Like the hands of a chiropractor. Can't allow that! My chiropractor can exchange dinner for an adjustment, but shouldn't do it for cash?

[shaggy eel]

And that differs from other jobs in what way....

,,, none. Very few of us do what we actually want to do for a job. I'm not forced to do what I do for a job, but responsibilities and committments mean I'm stuck with it. If being on the streets is the only work some women can get easily, that's the scenario for them.

[singsong]

Sex is special and it should not be for sale.
>Should it be legal to give it away free!
>Is it too special even for that?

It is special because it is OK to do it from human, personal motives. That's what special means... not hard. You sound like a person who sends his wife to the streets every night... What's so special about that huh?

[bedolido]

One pays a prostitute for services in the same way they'd pay a message therapist or a chiropractor.

Keep lowering the bar until everyone steps over it. We will never agree on this. But thanks for your input.

[Onelifetogive]

No one buys prostitutes. If they did, they'd own them after the fact. / painfully obvious

And the upkeep would be prohibitively expensive. Much better to rent!

[shaggy eel]

Didn't New Zealand just ban cow farts??

,,, yeah, but that can be repealed if farmers vote Labour in 2004.

[shaggy eel]

Does this mean NZ will reinstate the ‘ Whore house of the South Pacific’ label it once had? Hehe.

,,, you don't live in Russell, Bay of Islands do you?

[Onelifetogive]

It is special because it is OK to do it from human, personal motives.

Paying one's bill's is not a "human, personal" motive??

You sound like a person who sends his wife to the streets every night...

That is a HORRIBLE thing to say. I would never send her to the streets. I take her to the streets. What kind of cad do you think I am?

[shaggy eel]

Did the Labour whip refuse to release party members to vote their consciences on this? It seems a very curious bill for the party to take that kind of approach to. Normally it's only done on really important bills, budgets and the like.

,,, you've got me there. Couldn't even guess. As for Ashraf Choudhary, he is our only Muslim MP. In abstaining, he gave them the count they needed. If he had voted against it, the Bill would have been dead in the water.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[freeeee]

Keep lowering the bar until everyone steps over it.

Hmmm. 'lowering the bar'... I still think prostitution is demeaning and of low character. It's just that I get to make that determination, not the state. If the state says for example eating dog turds is legal, it doesn't make it a good idea, or moral. If we rely on government for moral guidance, we might decide that being married while getting oral sex from an intern at work is a good idea and moral. We need to use our own brains, our own moral institutions such as family and church to determine our morality, that's what we have them for.

We will never agree on this. But thanks for your input.

I love civility! Thanks.