Opinions on prostitutes & prostitution?

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The law forbids you to go out with a gun and start randomly shooting things because in an uncontrolled environment, things go wrong. This is why there are shooting ranges where you can legally shoot off your guns with a much higher level of safety.It is not illegal for you to obtain anabolic steroids, but they are regulated for safety reasons and mainly administered to AIDS and Cancer patients. If you have high risk of bad cholesterol then taking anabolic steroids could cause an increase in risk of cardiovascular disease or coronary artery disease. For your own safety, substances like that must be controlled.As with the anabolic steroids, Methamphetamine can be quite dangerous when abused but is still prescribed for medical use. Meth is illegal for recreational use mainly because it is highly addictive, can cause paranoia and irrational, sometimes destructive behaviour which is dangerous to others. There are of course legal alternatives to Meth, natural herbs that are sadly less effective but they are far less harmful.Under appropriate regulations (such as not letting a civilian go near an MP5!) many things can be done safely. Certain drugs cannot be taken for recreational use for the same reasons as substances like morphine can't, the risk of addiction and substance abuse is just too high. The laws are supposed to be there to protect you, and others, from harm.Under controlled regulations, as I've said before, prostitution can be done safely. I am not saying that if you legalise it then any woman can go out on the street to sell herself and she'll be safe. I mean that in a brothel, with appropriate security, drug screening and health screening, a business can be conducted fairly and safely. And as an official business, as I said before, the prostitutes can be taxed and receive ethical treatment in their workplace. Sex is a massive industry, and porn cannot take on the entire burden itself. People will always want sex so there will always be prostitution, so far all efforts to stop it have failed. The best thing to do is to control the conditions in which it is done, instead of banishing it to a dark alley.

Originally Posted By: HelmsmaN

I'm not so sure about your intreptation of "misconception", I've lived on the fringe, I know "what's up". Been there done that as they say.

That's actually amusing to me Helmsman, especially in reference to this particular subject - you have NO idea -- LOL!

If you know "what's up" in this particular context, you surely must have sold your body at some point in your life?...Yes??

It's horrible. Hookers smell like smoke and dead carcasses. I agree with Helms, they should make it illegal. Punishment should be Death by Firing Squad - it be nice... They already make money on, possibly, the easiest thing any Human can do.If they make it legal, the government has to watch over these cum dumpsters. It's just draining money. Not only do they have to build Women's shelter - which is pointless - they actually have to watch over them. That money could fund the music program at my school

Hookers smell like smoke and dead carcasses. You know this from experience? or is it just your perception of what a hooker is supposed to be like?

Quote:It's horrible. Hookers smell like smoke and dead carcasses.Right, and you're basing all that on your personal experience with hookers?

The Media obviously.
Naw -- there's tons of them downtown Montreal. You don't even have to be close to them to sense a hooker.

But you'd probably have to be close to smell them.

Not really....Well, unless they hide it by perfume. I shouldn't generalize them - some smell like cheap cologne.

Well, they definately deserve to die then. Kill the little bitches now!

I can't fly to Ireland.

Right. Well you go kill your hookers, it should solve all of life's problems.

Naw -- I'll let the STI's take care of that.

Well seeing as you think it wise to lump every person who is involved with prostitution into one category based on your own 'personal experience' with them, then that means that not only do they smell, it's safe to assume they're all crack addicts and cat killers too, eh? Give me a break!

Where do you get off saying absurd, moronic statements like that? Explain to me why a firing squad would be 'nice' as a punishment as you so eloquently stated, and while you're at it, tell me why a woman's shelter is such a horrible thing or 'waste' of money? I think you need to grow up a little more before you post because those unintelligent comments shows exactly how ill-advised and how young and foolish you actually are. :angry:

Originally Posted By: Katie Lou I think you need to grow up a little more before you post because those unintelligent comments shows exactly how ill-advised and how young and foolish you actually are. You're right on target here Katie Lou; I'd have responded in a very similar fashion, if I'd have considered it worth my time.

Originally Posted By: 2gifted...what do we have for prostitutes? nothing except for a general disapproval and feeling of social isolation. You are exactly right here 2gifted. One thing that people who hold prostitutes in open contempt don’t seem to realise is this; a prostitute is fully aware that she (or he) is outside the remit of acceptable society, they feel a strong sense of being at odds with 'respectable' people and it is in the expression of attitudes like this that society confirms the hostilities. This, one the one hand, discourages the prostitute from forming a bond of any sort with people who do not inhabit her social sphere, and, on the other, actively encourages her to form bonds with those that do. The effect of this is to encourage the prostitute to feel safe in the place in which it is least safe to be. Those attitudes have more function in perpetuating prostitution than the people who express them will ever know.

Don't feed the trolls....seriously, I think its been proven time and time again the kid only wants to start shit for his own personal amusement.

Interesting topic. Some say it's not going away so it should be legalized. So we should legalize armed robbery too? Some say it's OK..."but don't put it on my street". Hmmm...I'd say somebody has issues with it they're not comfortable with facing.When you legalize something, it is in effect saying to all that "It's OK...there's nothing wrong with it." Just take a look at posts on this board...the majority of those who lost their virginity at a young age wish they hadn't. (Yes, anecdotal evidence...so what?) Does anybody see young Johnny (we'll call him) losing his virginity at 15 to some hooker becuase now "it's legal" and him being OK with that years later? Most likely not. How about your 15-year old daughters pimping themselves out so they can buy that new ipod? You think it won't happen? Think again. Take a look around at how our youth respond to their world and the laws in it. Here in the states drinking under 21 is illegal in most states...do you think a girl being only 15 is going to stop her? And the way kids are developing earlier now, how many 15-year old girls can pass themselves off as 18? I'd say most.Legalize prostitution? Without even getting into Biblical issues with it, it doesn't take much pondering to see we don't wanna go there.

Why is everyone assuming that when we say "legalise prostitution" that we mean that the governments should say "Its legal" and let the situation run into chaos.If prostitution were to be legalised, it would be regulated. Street hookers would still be illegal, brothels would have government assistance to verify the age of both their clients and their employees.Prostitution is regulated in the Netherlands and Germany, but do you see a massive black hole of sin when you visit those nations?Quote:So we should legalize armed robbery too?Ok, lets discuss this on your terms.Armed robbery breaks the 7th commandment, and at times, breaks the 5th too.Prostitution has the possibility of breaking the 6th, but no more than having an attractive neighbour creates the possibility to break the 9th, as well as the 6th!Not every man who goes to a prostitute is an adulterer, nor is every person who goes to a prostitute a man! Couples even go to prostitutes!

Helmsman, I’ve seen you talk a lot of sense on a lot of threads, but this isn’t one of them. It’s pretty clear that the circumstances of your life have not equipped you with an understanding of how a person becomes involved in prostitution. There are a particular trio of hardships that elevate the likelihood of prostitution from unlikely to almost certain; first up is familial dysfunction, which leads to educational disadvantage and then to homelessness. Rather than putting others down for having experienced the trio of hardships you’ve been fortunate enough to avoid, you ought to just be counting yourself lucky.

Originally Posted By: bobaliciousAgain you are assuming that these women don't want a better life, or an education. Yes it is true, some women do it by choice, but not all of them. There are so many of them who CANNOT get an education. Who CANNOT get another job. Please don't pretend that you are unaware of the people who fall through the gaps in society, the people who are left alone with nothing to their name. THESE are the people who will benefit most from legalisation. You are thinking from the view of the consumer. Please excuse the pun when I say, fuck them! They are not what we care about. You can make this concious choice to go seek a blowjob from some 18 year old. What legalisation would do is protect that 18 year old should you turn out to be a mental case!Prostitution is a job. Its a trade. The prostitute deserves to be protected regardless of your moral standing. I couldn't be any more eloquently or directly, nor would I very any in my opinion from what bob has already said in the above post.Very well said bob, you took the words out of my mouth.