New York Could Be the First State to Decriminalize Sex Work [Barf Alert]

HIVPlus Mag ^ | June 10, 2019 | David Artavia

[fwdude]

New York is aiming to become the first state in America to fully decriminalize sex work via a new bill introduced this morning by legislators and activists from Decrim NY, a coalition of various organizations advocating for the rights of sex workers.

The bill, called Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act, is sponsored by Democratic Senators Jessica Ramos and Julia Salazar as well as Assemblymembers Richard Gottfried and Yuh-Line Niou. It is the first statewide bill of its kind in the history of the United States and purposefully cites no reference to a specific gender in its language.

Currently, New York State law has over two dozen antiprostitution penal codes. About half of them pertain only to sex work between consenting adults, while the other statutes focus on trafficking, exploitation of minors, and coercion in the sex trades.

This bill upholds the felony antitrafficking statutes designed to punish traffickers as well as to protect minors, but it would repeal important sections in the penal code that prohibit prostitution and the criminalization of consenting adults.

[fwdude]

Let’s cut through the crap. “Sex work” = prostitution

[yldstrk]

Nevada?

[fwdude]

Only certain jurisdictions allow “on-premises” prostitution (brothels) but not statewide. Ironically, prostitution is still illegal in Las Vegas.

[IronJack]

Of course they are. Once you start the downhill roll, it just picks up speed.

[boomop1]

Tax it, is what they want to do.

[Mariner]

It’s unlikely to increase the numbers of whores, but does reduce the numbers of pimps.

I don’t know why it’s a crime in the first place.

[ryderann]

Trying to draw more conventions?

[yldstrk]

I agree with you, you can buy almost any service, why is sex any different?

[DFG]

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan

[fwdude]

You’re dead wrong in every point of your comment. It will most like increase the number of minors prostituting themselves, despite regulations against it. Once a vice is made licit in the minds of the public by legalizing it, children are going to be easier to recruit.

Just like the marijuana legalization in many states, this will have deleterious effects that are almost impossible to turn around.

[bigbob]

There’s also the part about loitering and use of public space. Making NY a s-hole again.

[EinNYC]

Of course “Yuh-Line Niou” is going to support this. The Chinese have vast businesses involving “sex work”. Everywhere you look around here in NYC there are Chinese “body work” shops, “massage” shops, etc.

[fwdude]

I’ll say it one more time, once a long-illicit activity is made legal, a massive amount of regulations is needed to mitigate the externalities resulting. Of course, the pushers of such regulations will tout the “protect children at all cost” mantra reflexively; ironic, since these moral anarchists have no concern for children having sex, or being ripped apart in the womb.

So, how are children to be protected? Will law enforcers get to do spot “ID checks” in the places that these “transactions” happen? The proposed NY law basically gets rid of all loitering laws. Wherever people have a right to be, they have a right to loiter, including across the street from primary schools.

[HangnJudge]

I had a PhD Psychologist friend who believed
women were natural sexual opportunists,
that manipulating males for personal gain
underpinned much of female activity.

I was repulsed by his “Vision”

Prostitution, from that viewpoint, is just one variant,
just a particularly dangerous and morally repugnant one.
Dating, with expectation of sex out of wedlock,
in exchange for... whatever
Is not much different however

Manipulation of males using the tools of “Beauty”
is a time honored tradition and
Girls often start learning its nuances by age... 4, sometimes earlier

[sphinx]

The historical limit on prostitution was effective. Civil War prostitutes have been studied; their life expectancy was about five years. I suppose the figure has been similar throughout history. It would be so again if we simply abolished all forms of socialized medicine, including Medicaid. Let prostitutes and their clients pay their own medical expenses. It would be ugly for a few years, but the contagion would be sharply limited.

The same remedy would work for our modern epidemic of STDs, including AIDS. Let the people who can't keep their pants zipped up pay their own medical bills. The mortality rate would spike for a short period, but on the plus side, there would be a lot of new job openings in quite a few fields.

[BigEdLB]

Eliot Spitzer wants a pardon from Minime Cuomo?

[fwdude]

Sounds like your shrink friend and pedophile Alfred Kinsey would get along splendidly.

[MichaelCorleone]

Interesting to see how the feminazi’s handle this one. A woman can do what she wants with her body - good. A man receives pleasure through consensual sex - bad.

Mmmmm - what to do; what to do...

As most here probably know already, once this takes root in NYS, the rest of the states will follow suit, one by one, just like everything else. Tax revenue is a major reason, but anything counter to Christian values is also a big reason.

[fwdude]

I like your approach. Slightly Darwinian, so the left would have to like it.

[fwdude]

As most here probably know already, once this takes root in NYS, the rest of the states will follow suit, one by one, just like everything else.

Usual by edict of some autocratic leftist court.

They’ll argue since a person’s sole chosen profession is prostitution, and since that person is free to move about the United States as a free citizen, they are denied their livelihood by not being allowed to prostitute themselves nationwide.

Watch and see if I’m not right.