Posted on 01/10/2006 8:25:43 AM PST by presidio9
The sex industry is big business, and getting bigger. World-wide profits from prostitution exceed $12 billion annually. Of course, the women generally see very little of this money. The sex traders, whether legal "sex entrepreneurs" or illegal pimps, are the biggest beneficiaries.
Many countries have tried different approaches to control or limit its growth, from legalization to regulation, with decidedly mixed results. But with the sex "business" spawning cross-border trafficking in women and children and boosting organized crime across Europe, we can no longer turn a blind eye to this problem.
* * * As prostitution becomes more prevalent, it's also becoming more accepted. During this summer's World Cup, the city of Bremen estimates an influx of 30,000 - 40,000 prostitutes to Germany for the four-week tournament. Taking a lead from the Athens Olympic Games, the authorities in Cologne put up a complex of custom-built cabins outside the city, so men can buy access to women's bodies without tarnishing the host's good reputation.
But where will Germany find those thousands of women? The growing demand for commercial sex in Germany and the rest of the Continent can't be met by women from within the European Union alone. According to a 2003 London Metropolitan University study, 60-90% of prostitutes in the EU are foreigners. Trafficking in women and children is a key element of the sex industry. In its newly released report on forced labor, the International Labor Organization estimates that there are more than 250,000 sex slaves in industrialized countries.
Some "progressive" campaigners have, especially over the past 15 years, argued that the legalization and regulation of prostitution could reduce trafficking and help combat organized crime and money laundering that usually come with it. By making
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I know. Try reading it again.
Ho hum
Really...I suppose you can support that statement? In reality if you checked you would find that it is the radical left feminists who are anti-prostititution, anti-pornography (and anti-everything-to-do-with-men); it is the "right" individualist or libertarian feminists who support the right of of consenting men and women to engage in commercial sex.
Support your own statements. Radical left feminists see pornography as empowering.
I can support my statements, I demonstrated that William F. Buckly Jr., the father of the modern conservative movement, supports the legalization of prostitution, and all you do is stamp your feet and make inane and unsupportable claims.
The radical feminist left is represented by Andrea Dworkin, see her essay Vargas' Blonde Sambos...the commie lefty wench dissed the VARGAS GIRLS.
Also see WHY WOMEN MUST GET OUT OF MEN'S LAPS and Pornography: Men possessing women
So, by your bizarre logic, Andrea Dworkin is the left's equivalent to Bill Buckley?
Libertarians love to drop names. The web is full of libertarian websites. Means nothing. Buckley's own logic for Legalized prostituion is libertarian by his own explanatin. The fact remains that if the right embraced legalized prostition in this country, we'd have it.
So similar to slavery
As are the attitudes of those who participate
Why have vice squads, except as a way to make cops feel important?
The "crime" goes away, so should the need to police it.
Which just goes to prove that all those slaves were willing participants ...
FORCED prostitution IS slavery and nobody is arguing that it should be legalized.
Actually they are. They are simply pretending it is voluntary so they can have their orgasms. It is a con game they play with themselves.
The Spice Must Flow
It sounds like you have visited each one of them.
Sex tourism ?
Good point. And also we can get rid of drug rehabs. Nope... won't be needing those either in our libertarian utopia.
Your guilt is not my fault.
So, by your bizarre logic, Andrea Dworkin is the left's equivalent to Bill Buckley?
What I said is that she is a respesentative, certainly one of the most famous and lauded, of the radical feminist left. You have utterly failed to support any of your pulled-from-nowhere statements, for example, "most of the left SUPPORTS legalized prostitution." The part of the left that is actively concerned about prostitution are the radical feminists, and they are against it.
You do know that prostitution was legal in most of the US until the early years of the 20th Century, when campaigns by 19th Century/early-20th Century feminists and the WCTU succeeded in getting it outlawed?
Libertarians love to drop names. The web is full of libertarian websites. Means nothing.
No. Libertarians love to use logic and facts; which appareled you see as some unfair trick.
Buckley's own logic for Legalized prostituion[sic] is libertarian by his own explanatin[sic] .
Woman, can't you even read? Buckley said:
I take a purely instrumental view of it, in fact I’m in favor of licensed brothels on the grounds, obviously not that I would endorse prostitution, but that I’m convinced by the data that one is better off under regulated vice than under unregulated vice in an age in which there is AIDS and other venereal diseases and today, in an age in which there are whole criminal subcultures and the corruption of minors as a result of the profit element of illegal drugs.
That is a pragmatic argument. Libertarians will also point out the pragmatic advantages of libertarian positions, but the actual libertarian argument for prostitution is that adults, as sovereign individuals, have the right to contract to provide and enjoy sexual services.
The fact remains that if the right embraced legalized prostition[sic] in this country, we'd have it.
There are many positions held by principled, intelligent leaders and members of the right that are far from being enacted into law.
"Your guilt is not my fault."
Are you speaking in parables?
Would a parable change your heart ?
I think not.
I think you have already made your choices.
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