[ktscarlett66]

Why not legalize it? The amount of money spent on rounding up street hookers and processing them through the legal system is unbelievable. Why don’t they spend that money helping the victims to get out of that kind of life? Or use it to arrest the pimps? I say legalize it, make it a legitimate business, tax it and make it safer. Sex is never going to go away and those who pay for it or take money for it aren’t either. Require testing, make it safer for the true victims (of rape or abuse) to report those crimes, and don’t allow control over them via pimps.

[blackdog]

Is that you Elliot?

[NYpeanut]

I am thinking about agreeing with this. Hookers would have to be subject to health department screenings, like any other public utility, and would be taxed like the rest of us. Johns would register, to sort out the ax murderers and married men among them (anonymity guaranteed, and no registration fee, as the fees would be collected in hooker taxes).

The only other thing I would add is that married johns should have to possess a notarized permission from their wife, giving her acquiescence to his registration, so as not to infect the innocent lady with skank bugs. No note, no party. Married men caught without spousal permission should be subject to the penalty determined by the wife; no limit.

Than that will open up a whole new industry, a black market for fake permission cards, and a whole other level of bureaucracy susceptible to corruption. More bureaucracy, more lawyers. Oh, never mind.

[stompk]

“Why not legalize it? “

Which Country was that, that wanted to refuse young women unemployment money, because they refused to consider(legal) Prostitution as a career choice ?