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 state’s legislature.
The bill’s 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 bill’s 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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Your attitude is simply calling down more and more of God’s wrath on our disobedient nation.
No, but you are going to have to become a prostitute to pay for the taxes.....
Running a rape kit there will be DNA and even without injuries they can bust him for the prostitution. So your first assertion is demonstrably false.
I'd suggest you volunteer to an outreach program, then reevaluate your statements.
Even women who have left the business have to deal with the stigma of their former profession in any run-ins with the law. Though it's anecdotal, I know one young lady who had a history of prostitution with the law, but when she was robbed and assaulted on the street several years after turning her life around, the police refused to take her seriously, and said that it was obvious she had gone back to her "old ways." She hadn't.
Mark
That's been legal and widespread (no pun intended) for at least 50 years.
Prostitution in some form has been around since the dawn of time.
Murder has been around since the dawn of time. As well as child prostitution (which i am sure has support in the dim realm) ..Child molesters ...hard drugs..stealing ...elder abuse...
False. Hog rendering is legal, yet the law doesn't (typically) permit it in neighborhoods.
Very few people are forced into any legal line of work, for the simple reason that they have no disincentive to go to the authorities and report the forcers.
I worked directly with Jodie Williams, who runs Trafficking And Prostitution services from 2007 to 2015.
I was trafficked from just after I turned four until I was almost eleven. I moderated (rotating with other volunteers) Prostitutes anonymous teleconferenced meetings for prostitutes in a Philadelphia drug rehabilitation facility.
You are not now (nor will you ever be) in a position to lecture me about prostitution, pedophilia, slavery, or stigma.
You get more of what you legalize.
When Congress and the President recently passed a bill that criminalizes smoking for those under the age of 21, they knew that some people would still do it. Did that stop them? Of course not.
It’s the same thing with weed, pornography, and lowered-FCC standards. You relax them and you get more. The more sane policy would be to council young women on the dangers of prostitution as a choice. This doesn’t get fixed through legalization. In fact, you’ll just see more of it. Most women will be mature enough at some point in their lives to realize that they made a mistake in doing it. Let’s not grow the number prostitutes by removing the legal condemnation.
Links?
In today’s hookup society isn’t dinner and drinks already legal?-)
Stupid analogy.
NOBODY— not even people who love bacon—likes hog rendering next door in the city/ suburbs. It’s bloody, noisy, & smelly, & the offal requires disposal.
A better analogy would be abortion clinics & pot dispensaries. MOST people don’t want abortionists, dope dealers or hookers next door.
Other people whine their “rights” are being violated & their “access” is being denied, then holler about all the problems they voted for.
You can’t fix stupid. Don’t be stupid in the first place.
LOL.Yep, and I’ve read about hookers complaining the easy women are cutting into their business.
You get more of what you legalize.
And less of other things, such as the police negligence MarkL described.
No help for you there - zoning laws also don't allow abortuaries in neighborhoods, despite their legality.
That’s already the case in this state.
Not a lot of ways for Vermonters to attract that money from more prosperous states besides selling their fair ladies?
That or maple syrup.
I’ll admit that my last work with an outreach was several years ago, (my health and work schedule haven’t allowed it,) and I hope that things have changed.
Mark
Vast numbers are forced because after being beaten and raped they become too scared.
You demonstrate an appalling desire to reject information that is freely available in order to present a fragile and tortuous defense of prostitution as if your position is reasonable.
Are you sure that you are on the right forum?
Ping. The usuals are out in force.
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