[narses]

" Prostitution is renting a human body. "

Not under the circumstances outlined in this article. The 'john' may view his conduct as a 'rental', the poor slave certainly doesn't.

[bluefish]

Not under the circumstances outlined in this article. The 'john' may view his conduct as a 'rental', the poor slave certainly doesn't.

Did you bother to read the second half? I mentioned slavery as well.

My point was that if either of you are going to bring the founding fathers into this debate, you've got problems.

You imply they wouldn't legalize prostitution. But slavery was ok?

Your adversary implies that the founding fathers believed in greater freedom than we have today. Yet, that pesky slavery issue rears its ugly head again.

My point was that neither of you should be making "founding father" arguments with respect to either of your positions. It gets too messy.

[expatguy]

I was going to stay out of this thread for a while but I might as well join in and mention the most important point that seems to have eluded many people here - and so enough of this 'poor girl' and 'poor slave' nonsense.

Did it ever occur to anyone that many of these girls have chosen this life - and in many cases know exactly what they are getting in to?

Many of these girls are not 'forced', tricked or lured into prostitution, they have chosen to become prostitutes and many know full well what to expect.