NEW ZEALAND legalises prostitution

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

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

G'day Bruce!

[spitz]

Arr! Not yet me hearty, still negotiating with the local Iwi for anchorage rights for me whaler, aye.

[moyden2000]

Hooker-obsessed/pothead libertarian alert.

[barkeep]

Interesting contrast between your "socialist idiots" opener and turning the country into a whorehouse. Never been one to partake in the trade, but in my line of trade I have met a good number of prostitutes. I would far prefer an evening spent downstairs in their company buying a few drinks for the conversation than an evening with a roomful of socialist politicians. Give me the good honest capitalists in a nice clean whorehouse over the Democrat Caucus of the US House of Representatives any day.

[norton]

Now that prostitutes are legal,
shouldn't NZ get a navy so they'll be occupied?

[shaggy eel]

Hooker-obsessed/pothead libertarian alert.

,,, tell Billy-Jeff to pack his AMEX card.

[NH Liberty]

Hi Shag,

Re your #1: thanks for the background. Makes it all more interesting.

[shaggy eel]

Now that prostitutes are legal, shouldn't NZ get a navy so they'll be occupied?

,,, our navy is helping out in the Gulf at present with Operation Enduring Freedom. Be assured I'll raise that point on your behalf with them though.

[shaggy eel]

,,, Hi NH - sorry, sorry, forgot to ping you!

[cajun-jack]

how many women are staying with a man they loathe for the money he is earning and the house they live in???? if you put out for money........a ho is a ho is aho!!!!!! same diff...just a diff level of respect...........still the same thing.doesn't matter if u put out for suv and credit card or for 50 bucks......she is still selling it.

[shaggy eel]

I guess we have to step up because we fell behind to NZ!

,,, it isn't called progressive for nothing.

[Zack Nguyen]

Perhaps all the supporters of the bill celebrated by victimizing a whore that night. sarcasm/

God will not be mocked. There will be serious reprecussions here - a rise in disease, and most important of all, the destruction of the hearts and souls of women and men who would give away their bodies for money.

[Zack Nguyen]

Nothing different than a athelete selling his body and performance for millions.

There is a profound difference! No professional athlete shares the most intimate of human acts with the 50,000 people who pay to see him. No athlete becomes "one flesh" with all the spectators.

[Darksheare]

Who'll do government inspections and quality control?
How much of their GNP is going to go towards above?
And how are they going to tax it?
Did they honestly think it all over?

[shaggy eel]

1. Unsure
2. Unsure
3. Unsure
4. I doubt it

[Darksheare]

I figured as much.

However, in defense *cough* of New Zealand I will say this: There are some pretty women there...

[Darksheare]

The sex act isn't the same as an exchange of money.
It isn't and shouldn't be reduced to a mere business barter.

[shaggy eel]

,,, pretty women? I know all three of them. Too many here dress like Italian grandmothers or commandos. Some have dress sense that require skirts and dresses to be worn over trousers. I think I can figure that one out. It sort of says "yeah, I'm a woman, but I wear the pants."

[Darksheare]

I was at an artist get together session a year or two ago, and one of the models was from New Zealand.
She was pretty.
And she wasn't seemingly aware of it too much.

[shaggy eel]

,,, most of the women I know here are pretty good value. My wife is a real gem. She's ten years younger than me and we've just completed a welding/metalcraft course together at night school. She mixes concrete, swings a hammer and all the other stuff needed to renovate houses, as I do. She drives faster than me and has a great sense of humour. I'm lucky, but then, I decided not to settle for mediocre or a Bambi in peril this time around.