[B4Ranch]

I've only lived in Nevada for seven years but I can't recall any problems with the cat houses that are in this state. I think there is somewhere around 40 of them. Women don't get beaten up or raped as often here as in other states.

There was one famous cathouse outside Reno that the IRS owned for a couple of years. They lost money with the real thing so they sold it and went back to screwing us the old way.

[Long Cut]

Good point...the violence and other negatives associated with prostitution tend not to exist where it is legal.

Make something that has an inelastic demand illegal, and it will be supplied by - criminals, with all the attendant fun they bring.

As far as prostitution itself goes, no society or nation or law in history has ever TRULY eliminated it. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to quit trying and acknowledge reality.

Besides, assuming that the transaction is one betwixt two willing adults, and that it is within the bounds of local decency, no logical reason exists to ban it, even if such a ban worked.

[independentmind]

I've only lived in Nevada for seven years but I can't recall any problems with the cat houses that are in this state.

Legalized prostitution in China is unlikely to resemble that in Nevada. What it will be about is the degradation and oppression of an entire class of young Chinese women.

[skinkinthegrass]

There was one famous cathouse outside Reno that the IRS owned for a couple of years. They lost money with the real thing so they sold it and went back to screwing us the old way.

HA!HA!..It was the Mustang Ranch..."Swimmer" Ted Kenndey and Chris Dodd offer to investigate the ranch..free-of-charge..on site, during his/their remaining tenure in office....w/ an ample amount of scotch whiskey. :))