No, prostitution is not a victimless crime.
Every once in a while there seems to be a “libertarian” argument on FR about the validity of prostitution. It is discouraging to me. Here are the reasons I think prostitution is wicked and evil and wrong:
It destroys kids.
Sex causes children. Even with perfectly used birth control, sex causes children. I know, I worked in a CPC for years, half my pregnant clients were using birth control of one type or another when they got pregnant.
The children produced by prostitute sex are either miscarried, aborted, or raised by a whore.
The results are death, death, and madness.
Consider the number of serial killers with whore moms. It’s incredible. To have a whore for a mom is psychological devastation to a child.
Not to mention, no dad in the picture, ever. With all the accompanying societal destruction.
You can NOT have sex without consequences. God’s plan is for sex between two married people. It’s for our benefit, not our punishment.
Additionally, it destroys men, bringing out their worst characteristics and destroying their best. A man is at his best when defending women and children, not destroying them. His narcissism is fed and he becomes just another guy looking out for number one. No love, no empathy, no manliness at all. A permanent juvenile.
Further, honest women who marry and work hard are threatened constantly in their security by strippers and prostitutes. How valuable are they? What are they good for? When prostitution is held harmless, there is no place in society for a decent woman, unless she wants to go out and be a man in some way.
Young girls are cheapened the more a society promotes prostitution. They see that their value as a human being is frequently limited to their sexual attractiveness, period.
Sexually transmitted diseases increase the more prostitution and promiscuity there is. We may pretend there is no societal consequence to this, but that is really denying reality.
Sympathy and justice for rape victims is more and more senseless. Is not a rape something the girl on the corner would submit to for $75? What is the big deal? Make it a misdemeanor. Pay no attention to the fact that rape victims are often psychologically destroyed for life.
Finally, the female prostitutes are generally chewed up messes before they even start this up. Most of them are abuse survivors who are addicted to something. Not all, but most. Yes, they are adults, but they are adults dedicated to destroying themselves as thoroughly as possible. Many have to be literally enslaved to do this to themselves.
It pains me to have to line out these issues which I would think are easily observable to anyone who cares.
You know what they say. Never get between a libertarian and his hookers and blow. Libertarianism is a theoretical construct that only works in a perfect world with perfect people. Do you know how to create a libertarian? Just take a conservative and remove all common sense.
Thank you! I agree wholeheartedly. Then again I’m a Christian, a Doctrines of Grace believing Baptist, the husband of one wife, and the father of three daughters.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Key words here are anyone who cares. Even on a Conservative Christian dedicated site there are fewer who care about this issue than we would be comfortable in knowing.
Victimless crime, that’s rich. Tell that to the John’s wife and kids when he can’t make it home before midnight anymore, and brings home VD and a drug addiction when he does. When you roll around with pigs, you get dirty. Frequenting these kinds of people isn’t something a person can manage sensibly, the only way to “manage” it is to stay away from it entirely.