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"The leftist in America should understand that this is what will happen if their plans to legalize prostitution in an effort to make it "safer" succeed."

Prostitution has been legal here in Alabama for the last 200 years, yet you'd be hard-pressed to find a single hooker if you drove around all night.

It's not the law. It's what is in your heart.

The boom in prostitution hasn't come *because* of the change in laws, but rather, becuase the liberal culture is convincing children to pursue paths that are dangerous to them.

Even in this article, if you read between the lines, you can see that what they are complaining about is that *children* are now charging for sex.

Forget laws. When should parents ever let *children* do such things? No sane parent would...which means that the parents are either missing or not sane.

So focusing on the *law* itself takes your eye off of the ball. The law isn't the problem...society (or the breakdown of it) is. Thus, the problem is far deeper than merely some new change in a law.

There has been a change in society, and not for the better.

It's not that children are being sexually exploited that bothers them, it is that capitalism is thriving in a nation that is trying its hardest to go socialist.

The Sex Positive Agenda seeks to have people sexually active at every age (abstinence is "unhealthy" in their eyes because it is a suppression of desires).

I agree completely. The "sexual" revolution, sex education in schools and biggest of all, eight grueling years of Clinton has taught young people that sex is merely a part of life. Kids are taught to experiment with all types of sex (especially homosexuality), in order to establish a sexual "identity." It's sickening, and without a real attitudinal change in society, it is likely to get worse.

Prostitution has been legal here in Alabama for the last 200 years, yet you'd be hard-pressed to find a single hooker if you drove around all night.

Really? Try driving down South Boulevard tonight in Montgomery. And I believe it is illegal. They showed cops busting hookers and pimps on MPD (like the show Cops, but featuring the Montgomery PD) recently.

Prostitution has been legal here in Alabama for the last 200 years

This link indicates otherwise: Alabama Prostitution Law. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

It's not the law. It's what is in your heart.

Exactly.

Southack said: "Prostitution has been legal here in Alabama for the last 200 years..."

I didn't know that.

Is it only legal in licensed brothels? That seems unlikely if it has been legal for 200 years.

Is it similarly legal in any neighboring states or is Alabama unique in this respect? If unique, is there some history that would explain this?