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 think you are missing my point entirely:
The web is chock full of desperate lunatics struggling to legitimatize libertarianism BECAUSE sane people don't take you guys seriously.
Should the American people all of a sudden develop a fondness for the freedom the nation was founded on, there are a whole slew of jobs that could be in a state of oversupply.
What about truant officers? Game wardens? Tea tasters? I think we still have them, although Ronald Reagan tried to eliminate the Tea Tasting Board.
No, for the sake of a strong economy, if nothing else, we need to keep prostitution illegal and keep our kids in government schools where they can learn to respect the wishes of the majority and to grovel properly.
Uh, Reagan expanded the DEA significantly. He hated big government, but he was still in touch with reality.
Until when, would you say? 1986?
Now I get it. With libertarians, it's all about the pre-presidential Reagan.
Newsflash: The pre-presidential Reagan was often a jerk.
So...is WFBJr one of your "desperate lunatics"? How old are you? You seem to have not the slightest inkling of intellectual history of the right. If there had been no libertarians, there would not have been anything like the modern conservative movement. Just what do you think are "conservative" principles? The government enforcing your goody-goody notions of morality on everyone else? Neo-con big government corporatism? You are just a vacuumed-craniumed name-caller.
The libertarians that you speak of did not take things to your extremes. Case-in-point Ronald Reagan's drug war.
Already happened. See here
Everyone involved. And the John's spouse.
Who needs to read it? Just post all the pertinent pics.
Nam Vet
So I take it that you think Goldwater was referring specifically to legalized prostitution here?
Into the memory hole with such facts!
I thought "conservatives" were against "regulation".. rofl.
Wait, maybe that's just the treason lobby that's anti regulation because they don't want business constrained from illegal or immoral activities.. One tends to get confused on these matters..
Dutch police target sex worker smuggling
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060116-035305-4556r
Goes to show that legalizing and regulating the sex industry does not stop trafficking, sex slavery and other social ills associated with prostitution.
Post 134 was meant for you. Still waiting to hear why you picked Goldwater to make a point about prostitution.
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