It is a constitutionally impermissible to prosecute consenting adults for engaging in sex in private. Why in a capitalist country is it permissible to prosecute consenting adults for engaging in sex in private for hire?
If a doctor will not treat a patient, except for money, that is not a crime but is part of our understanding of capitalism. We do not say that requiring a payment for medical services somehow attacks the purity of the Hippocratic oath, we understand that medicine exists in a capitalist world.
It is the unrelenting goal of the left to remove capitalism as the method by which goods and services are distributed in our society. Just yesterday we had a thread in which we were treated to a lecture on "Ted" in which a Harvard professor put forth the idea that to distribute, for example medical services, on the basis of money is on sound public policy because it is morally wrong.
I can recall as a college sophomore being required to write what was expected to be a favorable review of John Kenneth Galbraith's, "The Affluent Society" which told the American people that because they put fins on cars rather than wings on school buildings they were too stupid to dispose of their money, rather those choices should be done by elitists who know better. In other words Galbraith sought to substitute political judgment for market judgment. This is the unremitting quest of the left. Conservatives should resist this wherever it threatens us.
In the instance of prostitution, we are told by our betters that, although it is constitutionally permissible to engage in sex in private between consenting adults of either or both sexes, it becomes a crime if we choose to do so because money changes hands. The result? The oldest profession goes underground, the police state follows it underground, corruption flourishes and prostitution survives through the millennia. For what?
If there are associated social ills accompanying the business of prostitution, such as abuse by pimps, regulate those activities. Look at the German model in which prostitution is legalized, localized, regulated, and supervised by health officials.
