Posted on 01/13/2020 8:55:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A bill to legalize adult prostitution in Vermont was recently introduced by female lawmakers in the states legislature.
The bills text read:
This bill proposes to repeal the prostitution laws while retaining felony human trafficking laws that prohibit recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a minor for the purpose of commercial sex; patronizing a minor for commercial sex; recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining any person through force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of having the person engage in commercial sex; compelling any person through force, fraud, or coercion to engage in commercial sex; and patronizing any person for a commercial sex act who is being compelled through force, fraud, or coercion to engage in a commercial sex.
One of the bills sponsors, Rep. Selene Colburn who is a Burlington Progressive, said she believed decriminalizing so-called sex work would offer prostitutes more safety and improve their health.
Colburn also stated that if prostitution were not considered illegal in the state, charges would not be brought against the sex worker or the buyer, the VTDigger reported.
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That's been legal and widespread (no pun intended) for at least 50 years.
Agreed. I'd say the effects we've seen so far give an idea of how the rest of the story will read if we finish the job (God forbid).
Should we criminalize nookie with no strings attached?
So we should criminalize all forms of lying? Making of graven images? All failures to honor father and mother?
Wrong. Even now teenage girls who are runaways are forced into prostitution and too afraid to go to the police. Often pimps get them addicted to drugs and then control them that way. I still say you won’t find many women who choose this lifestyle. It’s very sad.
For that matter, what about the men? This has to be corrosive to their character. How can a man have a genuine relationship with a woman if he thinks paying to use a woman’s body is OK?
Wrong. Even now teenage girls who are runaways are forced into prostitution and too afraid to go to the police.
Which part of "legal" did you not understand?
Women will still be lured or “persuaded” into this work by drugs and by unscrupulous pimps and madams. Young girls will still be exploited. If asked, they will probably say they are doing this of their own volition, but there are all kinds of tactics to force someone to submit to exploitation. They will still be afraid to defy those controlling them.
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