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On the topic of the Germany news story. As Dawn said, this is patently wrong. If the state can use fiscal means to coerce someone or blindly send someone to a position like that, then there is something definitely wrong with those running things. Now, if I found myself in such a situation, I would refuse to go no matter what financial consequences, and that is a choice everyone has. They have yet to show up with guns and threaten anyone's life if they don't. On the other hand, being sent blindly into such a situation is akin to taking advantage of someone when they are asleep; they don't get the chance to make an informed decision and I don't know how many of you have felt high-pressure tactics, but it is always much harder to resist once you are in the middle of a situation than it is when you are prepared for it.

Back on the original topic, there are a lot of arguments about legalization of prostitution both for and against. Most of it has to do with enforcing morality and sentimentality versus logic and cold reason (note that I am not saying that morality and sentimentality has no reason to it).

Also note that legalization is not the same as decriminalization. Decriminalization is, in essence, the government washing it's hands of the whole thing, which I do not think it can responsibly do.

Pros:
Legalizing prostitution would lead to safer working conditions, better health, and less problems through various means such as licensing.
Legalization would create ways for those who want to get out of it to do so.
Legalization would free up police to catch the 'real criminals.'
Legalization would make sure that only those who really want to be doing it have to be.
Legalization would actually curb the demand by removing the illicit temptation drive.
Legalization would free up those in the industry to enjoy their lives and livelihood instead of having to hide.
Legalization would actually enable the workers to charge less and earn more.

Cons:
Legalizing prostitution would bring many people into the business and as clients who would have stayed away due to legal issues.
Legalizing would legitimize adultery and fornication, leading to further breakdown of our family, morals, and, eventually, our society.
Legalizing would not always lead to safer conditions, better health, or better conditions for all those in the business because, while there will be many who abide by the rules of licensing, many will not and those who are illegally pushing people into it are not about to stop.
Legalizing will not always free up police. How are we going to enforce the licensing rules if we don't have people checking up on them, acting as clientele, and such?
Legalizing will lead us one more step closer to Sodom and Gomorrah (some places are already close enough).


If we want to look at it from a different viewpoint, we can consider what happened during prohibition and what happens now that prohibition is no longer in effect.

Under prohibition, there was a huge market for illegal booze, the product was generally rather miserable, and people were killing each other over it. The market was so good that many officials were corrupted and bribed in order to facilitate things and look the other way when rival suppliers went to war with each other.

Now, with alcohol readily available, more people are killed each day by drunk drivers than a monthly average of all alcohol related killings during prohibition.

Under prohibition, people who drank had to hide it in their homes and often could not get enough. Those who were caught were jailed, fined, and otherwise discomfited in various ways.

Now, with alcohol readily available, thousands of people get into trouble because of their drinking alcohol. Likelihood of committing crimes, violent acts, and disorderly behavior is greatly increased by the use of alcohol.

Legalizing alcohol did not reduce crime, violence, deaths, or damage done.

In some cases, it is impossible to know the extent to which legalizing alcohol has endangered our physical, mental, and spiritual lives. Prostitution, which effects areas of life much more complex, is so much harder to guess how it will effect society in the long run, but if it is anything like what has happened by legalizing alcohol, it will not nessecarily be good.

For those who are of the opinion that prostitution should be legalized, remember that if it was legalized, your and everyone else's tax dollars would go to supporting it, just as it does abortion now (despite the fact that advocates said it would never happen). And, if that is not enough, look at what God (if you believe in him) gave as the law when his people were less wicked than the world in general is now, read LEVITICUS Chapter 20. Yes, it will happen anyway. Yes, it is regretable what those involved have to go through. Would I ever vote to legalize it? No.

Prostitution

I think I would vote for the legalization of prostitution. In addition to what snerd sad, I want to say that it would very much decrease the number of abuses on women and at the same time will undermine the selling of women "slaves" (witch in the Balkans is a big problem).

Prostitution History & Civil Business Politics

CHRISTCHURCH POLICE CRACKDOWN ON TEEN PROSTITUTES

Christchurch police are promising a crackdown on under-age prostitutes and the men who use them amid new claims that increasing numbers of teenagers are selling themselves.
Ref. https://www.stuff.co.nz/hlc/1,,93498~3545624a10~,00.html

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Me being stationed in Germany. I am surrounded by Brothels and Red Light Districts. It's just a common thing to see here in Europe. On one particular day , I was waiting to catch a train from the Frankfurt , Germany train station. Well the Frankfurt train station sits across the street from the Red Light District. While riding on the train a beautiful woman sat right next to me. After about 10 min's. I started small talk with her. After 30 min's. of conversation,I found out she's a Red Light Girl. This woman was so beautiful , and sophisticated. She did not fit the bill of a prositute. When I asked her why she chooses to do this type of work. She responded with,where I'm from in Brazil is very poor. I do this type of work to pay for my education and to save up enough money to bring my mother , father , and brother to Europe for a better life. So I guess people have their reasons for doing this. I don't agree with prostitution but I guess when your desperate and trying to make a better living. People will do just about anything.

Prostitution

Personally,prostitution is a lowlight in humanity. But really, unless prostitutes take drugs or do illegal things, it's really not so bad. Personally, if people are that desperate, well, I don't know anymore.

But if prostitution is legal, health checks should be mandatory.

Prostitution

I think legalising and regulating prostitution would have more benefits simply because it would create better working conditons and take the criminal element out of it.

Unfortunately prostitution will always exist because there is a large demand for it. If it can be made safer than that is a good thing.

I don't believe many women choose to be prosititues, it's a desperate line of work that is often the result of social disadvantage. One of the major problems with the industry is the number of girls who are taken out of poor countries, abducted and forced to be prosititues. If tighter regulation can help these poor girls get out of that vicious scenario than it must be a good thing.

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MADAMS CHARGED $10K A DATE, POLICE SAY

For years, Lisa Ann Taylor's neighbors suspected something was going on behind the doors of her white-columned, million-dollar mansion in one of suburban Atlanta's most exclusive neighborhoods.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/05/mansion....m.ap/index.html

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I have no issue with prostitution being legalized. I do not believe that it is a right thing to do based on my religion, but that is my religion and not theirs. However, I do not want to pay for the legalization in anyway. I do not want my tax dollars going towards a program for registration or licensing. If my taxes go towards any sort of program, it makes me a "partner" in this act and a unwilling one at that. So, go ahead and make it legal, just don't make it a government funded program.

Also, I would have to say that I would be against legal advertising of this service (except for specific publications). I would hate going down the highway and seeing row after row of bulletin boards advertising for lonely truckers and have to explain it to my children.