Teenagers offer cheap sex (New Zealand prostitution)

New Zealand Herald ^ | 7/10/04 | STEPHEN COOK

[TASMANIANRED]

Prostitution is a victimless crime. Yea, right.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I think this story offers a glimpse into what might happen should drugs be legalized here. Many who support such an idea argue that drug trade related crime and gangbang activity would come to a screeching halt. I have always argued otherwise. I don't think the gangs would just go away. Drug dealers would simply cater to a demand that laws would still prohibit- selling to underage users, supplying more powerful drugs, etc.

[Revolting cat!]

Auckland Prostitutes Collective head Kate Dickie

If that's her real name...

[k2blader]

I also couldn't tell from that link either whether or not the Governor had signed it. Your comment interested me as I didn't realize prostitution is legal in some states.

I think prostitution law *should* be an issue left to the states. It's one reason I'll likely never vote Libertarian. Some (L)'s, and perhaps even the party platform itself, support making prostituion a "constitutionally protected right" like SCOTUS did recently with sodomy.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Decriminalisation had done nothing to deter young sex workers."


Bwahahahahahahahaaha! No sh!t!

[RichInOC]

Teenagers offer cheap sex

I'm not surprised. It's a tough market down there. I mean, in some areas, they're competing against sheep.

[Hotdog]

"There will be an AIDS epidemic, if not already. I don't feel sorry for em onne da#n bit."


I do feel sorry for the situation there Gov't has put these kids in...

[Fintan]

It's a tough market down there. I mean, in some areas, they're competing against sheep.

 

You got a problem with sheep?

 

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

"Sex Workers" I guess we now have a new euphemism. In western society great energy used to be spent on the invention, manufacturing and production of material wealth. Today, the same energy-(perhaps even more energy than formerly!)-is spent on the invention, manufacture and production of new words for vice. If it was not so tragic it would be a circus!

[Gritty]

Where once a sex worker could expect $100 for her services, many were having to settle for $20 - or even less for oral sex.

1 USD = 1.52114 NZD

bill clinton is probably on the first airplane heading down there as we speak.

[ErnBatavia]

Here's her end game... (re your number 6); couldn't find the progression one.

[BykrBayb]

Hmm... That's about $13.15.

bill won't be hit over the head with a sack of quarters by some two-bit whore. He'll be hit with a sack of nickels and dimes.

[Indie]

The world is in chaos.

[luvbach1]

Hmmm. This does not jibe with the idyllic NZ we see in the travelogues.

[Bonaparte]

It's a complicated business, being a child-junkie-streetwalker, isn't it?

In my day, all we had to worry about was setting up the lemonade stand.

[tahiti]

"There will be an AIDS epidemic"

This remark is not supported by AIDS data.

Men, whether homosexual or heterosexual do not get AIDS from women. There is no statistical evidence to the contrary.

Heterosexual men to not give AIDS to women.

the vast majority of AIDS infected men are homosexuals, followed by intravenous drug users and then wrapped up with hemopheliacs.

Homosexual men do not have sex with female prostitutes.

[weegee]

Legalization of drugs will always leave some new designer drug off the market (either outright banned or prohibited by the FDA until it has been tested). Snakeoil salesmen will be permitted to sell whatever cancer/AIDS/aging cure they want if we do away with the FDA.

And as long as there is an age restriction on drug use, there will be an underground market among those 8-18/21.

If we "legalize it and then tax the hell out of it", the DEA then moves under the ATF and the game becomes that of the revenuers against the bootleggers.

If you can manufacture a drug in your own home (grow pot, cook up meth, etc.) you will be "denying" Uncle Sam those "high tax" revenues (even if it is for personal consumption).

And I can see no validity in legalizing these substances before the Federal social safety net has been eradicated so that those who become addicts are not permitted to become a financial leech on society.

I'm not against the legalization of these substances but some people are short sighted in what it entails (not to mention that there would be Big Crack attempting to market this now legal product in other countries just like Big Tobacco does and McCrack paying South American farmers to stop raising produce for local consumption so that they can raise a bigger cash crop of recreational drugs). If you think that the world dislikes America for our stance in the Iraq war, just wait until they spout their venom for us turning the rest of the world into "drug addicts".

[NYCVirago]

I think this story offers a glimpse into what might happen should drugs be legalized here. Many who support such an idea argue that drug trade related crime and gangbang activity would come to a screeching halt. I have always argued otherwise. I don't think the gangs would just go away. Drug dealers would simply cater to a demand that laws would still prohibit- selling to underage users, supplying more powerful drugs, etc.

Yep -- look at tobacco; it's still legal, but a huge black market has arisen in high-tax states like mine. Unless you make legalized drugs dirt-cheap, and sell them to everyone, including minors, there will always be a black market.

[weegee]

Some (L)'s, and perhaps even the party platform itself, support making prostituion a "constitutionally protected right" like SCOTUS did recently with sodomy.

I don't understand how the Court's stance on same sex sodomy laws cannot apply to prostitution laws. Was it "equal protection" (men and women) or "privacy" that they ruled on?

Prostitution occurs between consenting adults and there are no more fornication or adultery laws prohibiting sex between unmarried partners. The financial aspect shouldn't change things; it is not illegal to hire someone (even a minor) to provide unlicensed child care in your home (a babysitter).

So if you can have sex with someone you meet in a bar and you can pay someone in your home, why can you not pay someone in your home who you met in a bar?

If morals laws, sex laws, privacy laws, and consenting adults are considered, there is no law.

As to "equal protection", homosexual is defined by an act, not gender. 2 men were prohibited from committing same sex sodomy just as 2 women were. Any man and any woman were permitted to have consensual sodomy with each other in Texas.

Since the Supreme Court struck down ALL sodomy laws (not just those that distinguished between heterosexual and homosexual), it wasn't on the basis of "equal protection".