The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
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Posted on 10/21/2004 12:09:37 PM PDT by NYer
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Already is legal. The Supreme Court has done away with sex laws (at least for those over age of consent). Constitutional privacy concerns keep the government out of the bedroom. Regulation would only place a government official in there.
If a babysitter can come over to your home in violation of child labor laws, payroll taxes, and licensing requirements, two consenting adults can have sex for money.
The adult entertainment industry and pornographers have endorsed John Kerry as their candidate for the presidency, and one pro-family advocate has gone to some lengths to find out why.
>>Few's personal background is, tragically, typical for a woman in the sex industry: incest, child abuse, runaway (at age 13), high-school dropout, domestic violence, rape, and stripping — all before she entered prostitution.
I think that with the new permissiveness of society, this common profile will change.
It's already acceptable for people to engage in amateur porn. Young women are having sex with both men an women -- and it's promoted as being "cool".
It's not hard for many of these women, who don't fit the typical mold, to make the leap from free sex to paid sex -- especially while they work their way through college.
And if a woman is beautiful, the money is severly tempting. Some [beautiful] escorts make $30,000 per month having sex with as little as 20 johns. Many quit for periods of time, try to go straight, but when money get's tight they jump right back into it. They simply cannot earn the same amount of money any other way.
I think that in five years, the majority of [non street walking] prostitutes will simply be women who hold the idea that it's all simply business. (Note, I'm not talking about druggie street walkers, I'm talking your "higher end" prostitute -- paid escorts/amateur porn starts).
My evil side says "let this pass". Then let the conservative documentarians go in and record the stupidity of such freedom. Again, on the evil side, this would be a great wedge issue for the next election cycle.
How many junked cars do you have in your front yard. I'm not insulting you, just wondering.
My ex-postal carrier got married and with her husbands knowledge took a part time job working in a strip club. Her average wage for two evening was $1,000.00+. In three years they were able to afford a luxurious home....cash. One more year and they had a substaintial investment account.
That was when they decided to have children. They now have two beautiful boys whom she stays home to care for. They intend on homeschooling the kids because of their distaste for the public system.
Never in the seven years I have known her has she ever used foul language or behaved like a slut. Her and her husband have attended the same Catholic church as my wife does.
I am giving this example because while I wouldn't want my wife or daughters to do it, it certainly put them 15 years ahead of others who prefer to work the normal tracks of our economic system.
There is financial advantages for those who decide to take the scorned paths in our society.
I am not defending her actions, just giving an example that I am personally aware of.
>>Few's personal background is, tragically, typical for a woman in the sex industry: incest, child abuse, runaway (at age 13), high-school dropout, domestic violence, rape, and stripping — all before she entered prostitution.
I think that with the new permissiveness of society, this common profile will change.
It's already acceptable for people to engage in amateur porn. Young women are having sex with both men an women -- and it's promoted as being "cool".
It's not hard for many of these women, who don't fit the typical mold, to make the leap from free sex to paid sex -- especially while they work their way through college.
And if a woman is beautiful, the money is severly tempting. Some [beautiful] escorts make $30,000 per month having sex with as little as 20 johns. Many quit for periods of time, try to go straight, but when money get's tight they jump right back into it. They simply cannot earn the same amount of money any other way.
I think that in five years, the majority of [non street walking] prostitutes will simply be women who hold the idea that it's all simply business. (Note, I'm not talking about druggie street walkers, I'm talking your "higher end" prostitute -- paid escorts/amateur porn starts).
>Never in the seven years I have known her has she ever used foul language or behaved like a slut
You haven't paid her to strip, and you haven't been behind closed doors with her. You don't know what you don't know.
How could socialist Berkeley legalize prostitution as it would encourage free enterprise and profit? It would be more in keeping with Berkeley to to make it legal to give away sex or have it provided for the common good by the government, but make it totally illegal to profit from it. I suppose they could justify the action if the workers (i.e. the prostitutes) totally controlled the means of production (sex), but outlawed pimping as that would be worker exploitation by capitalists seeking to make profits from the labor of others.
Prostitution (and drugs) should be legal (however, I don't partake in either). It is a personal responsibility issue. For "The State" to dictate what I do in my own home (or with a consenting adult) so long as I don't hurt anyone else is an infringement on my freedom.
Prostitution is the "world's oldest profession" for a reason and it isn't going away. You can now shop for a call girl online and as an earlier poster mentioned, it's now a business (a friend of mine worked vice and they just googled "Escort" and the city). Even an "average" call girl can make minimum of $5k a month with 20 johns (yet another reason for scrapping the current tax system and going to a national sales tax).
I'd suggest for those of you that believe government should be the moral arbiters of society, that you worry more about what goes on in your home and less about what goes on in your neighbor's home.
I am not advocating the legalization of prostitution. I am just giving you a taste of what the activist Supreme Court decision on sodomy meant.
A pimp is not an employer. He's more of a slave owner. The women give him ALL the money.
In return, he gives them clothes, a place to stay, promotion, and legal/medical coverage until he decides otherwise (or another pimp takes one of his women). He will track down a girl who leaves his pool.
Amateur sex starts with webcams at home and trips to "Mardi Gras" type celebrations. "Girls gone wild" is considered "acceptable" by the mainstream media now.
How many reality shows have shots of contestants giving a lap dance (clothed) to one another?
Agreed. Prostitution should be regulated.
...and does your co-pay cover the cost of all the vaccines, herpes treatments, aids clinics, thousands of illegitimate children, divorce courts, lawsuits, et al? Nooooo, the GOVERNMENT will cover it.
Why are you wasting your time here when your skills as a clairvoyant are so urgently needed in other places?
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