Posted on 09/08/2004 6:23:51 AM PDT by presidio9
Nope... not touching this one with a 10 foot, condom covered pole.
The article errs greatly in focusing on streetwalking. What about massage parlors and escort services? I have to think they comprise a large part of the overall prostitution business, a segment virtually invisible to the day to day world.
I don't believe that the government should attempt to control consensual behavior that won't affect anyone other than the adults involved. How can anyone who is a true conservative believe that the government should be delving into the private sex lives of American citizens?
It's not OK and it should be illegal.
If it's for money, it's not private, it's commerce.
They are only doing a job that nobody else wants to do. /sarcasm
All the more reason it shouldn't be illegal.
Like the squeegie men and turnstile jumpers of 80's New York, streetwalkers are visible proof that in this neighborhood the law abiding people are not in control. Affects no one else ? Streetwalkers by their very presence destroy a neighborhood and turn it into a red light zone.
Your argument applies to the high end of prostitution. But there will always be a low end. And since that low end is composed of people who have no wish to draw official attention to themselves, of people running from something, legalization will never tame it. It will always be sleazy and vile and bring down everything around it.
In Europe, its the Czechs and Russians. Here, it is Hispanics and Asians. And some Russians. Immigration guarantees a limitless supply of cheap young girls. Hey, why do you think there is a bottomless pit of young meat for the porn industry ?
The broken window theory. You nailed it.
Bingo.
And not only is it abhorrent on moral grounds, which really is enough (no body complains when the government says you can't drive around nekkid), but it is a public health risk to boot.
The govenrment shouldn't let someone infected with smallpox run around and infect everyone with it, nor should prostitutes be allowed to run around spreading equally lethal, if slower acting, diseases.
It isn't an issue of rights, and I am fairly certain that all of the Founding Fathers would have agreed with me on this.
Yes the disease issue is just one small set of reasons why it is so wrong. One has to think like a robot or, perhaps, like a dog, ie: the satanist, to see nothing wrong with prostitution.
TS
(reply as you might, but I think I might avoid responses to this thread ...)
Problem is...all vice has victims...and is never good for the overall health of a nation...
Once that camel gets its nose under the tent...it will never be satisfied with just a nose job..
imo
Is this why it's ok to ban machine guns, and therefore, by simple extension, all guns? Machine guns were only "taxed" at first.
You're right. We should ban alcohol, one of the biggest vices in the country, and the one responsible for a huge number of deaths annually. Tobacco, too. Yeah, that's the ticket.
So once something has to do with money, you have no right of privacy? I guess you find the PATRIOT Act II that turns auto dealers, travel agents, etc. into government snitches is fine with you, too.
Prostitution is not nearly as morally obnoxious as the intellectual dishonesty which thrives amongst the various species of 'do-gooders', bent on shaping all aspects of human life to fit their 'progressive' ideals.
I'd trust a whore before a social worker any day of the week. Well, never on Sunday, perhaps. ;^)
Is being a narc better or worse than being a prostitute?
How about an asbestos/tobacco/gun tort lawyer?
Is the routine abrogation of our rights by warrantless searches a noble profession, or are those people lower than worms?
I'd rather have a whore for company than 90% of government employees.
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