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The average age now for becoming a prostitute is 13. Fortunately there is a group to help women and girls leave the life of prostitution "Break Free". Prostitution is not a victimless crime. Sure, anyone who voluntarily (many are not voluntary) becomes a prostitute has made a choice, but it is very difficult to then make good choices, and organizations that help prostitutes change their lives deserves support.
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So Libertarians want prostitution legalized. Proponents sometimes bring out the "when it's regulated it's safer" etc - but I'm sure Libertarians don't want government oversight and control! They want less government oversight and control (so do I) but with vice, some people want to have their cake and eat it too. Or rather, they'll toss up any argument to support vice, whether said arguments cross each other out, make no sense, or lead to hell on earth.
Here's another snip of info:
"In the last 10 years, Dakota County alone has prosecuted 13 adult offenders and one older juvenile who were involved in forcing children into prostitution..."
Very few enter voluntarily, and over 70% of prostitutes were sexually abused as children.
2 in 5 of all sexually abused children go on to have some experience in the sex industry - be it stripping or porn acting or phone sex or prostitution. The average number of clients is 11, with some prostitutes just doing it once or twice, and others working for life with clients in the thousands.
Prosecuting, convicting and imposing sentences on the buyers of the services is the only way to put a dent in the prostitution industry.
Prosecuting the pimps and prostitutes actually drives the market price of the “services” higher and thus entices more pimps and prostitutes to set up shop.
Same is true for drugs.
But no on wants to excessively prosecute “johns” and drug users.
So both industries continue to grow.
Kill the pimps.
Not all of the teenage prosttitutes are girls.
Not by a long shot.
Treat the child prostitutes as victims, which they are.
Then take the adult pimps and procurers, and string them up.
Lot of BS slinging going on here, bunch of disconnected events getting passed off as if it were a factual national Trent.
IBTPD
In Before the Prostitution Defenders.
If ever there was a reason to keep prostitution illegal, this sort of nonsense is it. It was so predictable, and yet when warned, the PD’S deny that their stand would ever lead to it.
Just as the sodomite movement denied all the things we predicted it would bring about that it did.
I, too, am always puzzled by the supposed “Libertarian” argument that prostitution should be legalized so that the Government can “tax and regulate it.”
Say what?! That’s not any kind of “Libertarian” argument I’ve ever heard! It’s not only illogical, it’s also contradictory and immoral to boot!
A Libertarian, in order to be consistent, must either hold to a “Moral Libertarianism,” which respects the clear moral standards upon which our society was and is based (Judeo-Christianity); or they must adopt an AMORAL Libertarianism which restricts no immoral act, nor does it regulate, legislate nor tax said acts. Of course, if they hold to this kind of “Libertarianism,” it is no longer a TRUE, principled Libertarianism, but more an Anarchy of sorts, a chaos over which there are few if any governing forces. And we know that these states of chaos cannot survive for long, because nature abhors a vacuum. Something or someone WOULD bring order....
Most “Libertarians” today try to play somewhere in the middle of these two concepts — but they cannot and have a consistent and coherent political ideology and governing philosophy. One cannot be for “legalized prostitution” and “regulation and taxation of prostitution.” One cannot be “Pro-Choice” and yet “Pro-Life.” This is simply ideological schizophrenia.