"Send me."
Posted on 11/27/2006 8:27:51 AM PST by tang0r
But do not mistake gold digging as an invention of the 21st century. Superficially promiscuous women have been around for a long time. Case-in-point: President Benjamin Harrison once granted comprehensive pensions to Civil War veterans (his pro-veteran stance is what got him elected). However, it turned into a monumental boondoggle; 14-year-old girls were marrying 70-year-old men, knowing they would one day receive a generous pension package from Uncle Sam.
It's ironic too, that the business of prostitution remains unregulated and illegal in the US. Not only would the industry improve by government regulation, but the government itself could benefit by the legalization of the industry. Prostitution is an excellent candidate for government regulation, because the government could actually provide a value added service (unlike, say, the FCC or FDA). In exchange for our tax dollars, the government would pre-screen prostitutes for STDs and register their vitals with the state. Registered sex workers would take regular STD tests in order to renew their license. The government could also more effectively keep hookers out of residential neighborhoods via special zoning restrictions.
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Scrappleface?
Here come the religious nuts....
Sex and Slavery: Hillary Clinton backs "voluntary" prostitution
I have always said prostitution should be legal. The girls should pay taxes, get health inspections ,be placed in clean quarters ,without pimps stealing their money and beating them when they dont want to work. It would take underage girls off the street and if they were not clean of drugs they dont work.
The government could also more effectively keep hookers out of residential neighborhoods via special zoning restrictions.
They already do, it's called Washington D.C.
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Apart from the "moral fabric of society" arguments against prostitution there are two huge,and practical,reasons to outlaw it....
AIDS and Hepatitis C
I've seen both,up close and personal,while working in a large,big city,hospital.
And neither laws requiring the use of condoms or monthly checks will help.
"Send me."
Hah! LOL
Prostitution should no more be legal than drugs.
Three will always be "privateers' who will work for below the madated minimum, etc, etc.
Nice try, but No thanks.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
What would be the reasoning behind doing this particular action?
Supposedly in parts of Nevada, where prostitution is legal, they have regular health screenings, and the laws require use of condoms. Apparently these places have a good record of the lack of sexually transmitted disease. So then that leads towards the "moral fabric" argument.
I've been waiting for ACLU types to file lawsuits against laws banning prostitutes. After all, if what consenting adults do is their own business, how can the government ban such a practice?
I don't want prostitutes legal, but the legal argument is there waiting for someone to make it.
Price controls would be nice, too.
If prostitution becomes legal then it becomes a valid occupation for the otherwise unemployed. We will get yet another classic example of well-meaning Government intervention crushing people underfoot.
Case in point: I don't know how the law works in the US, but in Germany it has become technically possible for the state to force an unemployed person - man or woman - into prostitution or lose their benefits. All this thanks to the legalisation in 2003.
To date, there have been no reported cases of women - or men - actually losing benefits in such a case, however, the Bundesgesetz (Act of Congress ) legalising prostitution provides that the Arbeitsamt (Office of Employment) may exercise this option.
And when the precedent becomes accepted then this will turn from what is now a legal possibility into an actual fact: unemployed people will find themselves prostituted out by the government. The German Government will turn into a pimp. Don't let this happen to the USA!
I believe I had read an article some time ago, in some European country where prostitution had recently been legalized, that they had begun refusing unemployment to Women, on the premise that they were refusing to pursue a now legal form of employment.
got to plan for the unintended consequences of legalizing this kind of stuff, I guess.
Dear Gay State Conservative,
Do you believe that decriminalization and government regulation would increase the incidence of AIDS, Hepatitis C, and other STD, or decrease it?
Whichever your answer, would it be possible for you to explain why you believe what you do?
I'm not asking with a bias toward either answer in my own mind. I've never worked in a field where I saw first hand the results of these activities, and I'm asking you because of your first hand experience.
Thanks,
sitetest
Wonder what Nancy and Harry would say the minimum wage for this line of work should be?
On the Civil War Pension, IIRC, perhaps two years ago or so, the last beneficiary of a Civil War Pension died.
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