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Prostitutes and Politics
Why is it still illegal to pay for sex?
Reason Online ^
| May 7, 2007
| Cathy Young
Posted on 05/09/2007 6:51:49 AM PDT by Lusis
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To: Phantom Lord
Prostitution is nothing more than sex and commerce. To those opposed to prostitution, which of those are you opposed to? Neither, but I am opposed to their combination. Buying and selling sex on the open market is degrading, and debauches the great gift of sex. As it is a financial "transaction" I have no problem with the government disallowing it.
To: Little Ray
The issue was prostitution spreading STDs, not how effectlve the laws are,The issue is if prostitution should be legal or not. By making it illegal, is the spread of STDs being stopped? I would say that it isn't.
To: FormerLib
There are anti-slavery laws that do protect people from being forced to labor against their will. This is why it was the remnants of the Abolitionist movement that was largely responsible for having prostitution made illegal. I just don't but the slippery slope arguments used with this subject anymore than when they are used for issues like gun control.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:25:47 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(Discrimination against Muslims is acceptable if we are to survive.)
To: JamesP81
Rights do not need to be defined. They either exist or they do not.So how do I determine if a right exists or doesn't? What is the litmus test? You can't say, "You just know." That won't fly in court.
To: Lusis
Ah yes, prostitutes and politicians.
One you pay to let you do it to them.
The other you pay to do it to you.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:29:16 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: sentis1
You said — “Prostitution was legal under the government formed by the founding Fathers and only became illegal when Women got the right to vote.”
—
So was slavery legal under the government formed by the founding fathers. It took a Civil War to get rid of that one.
Fortunately in this case, it didn’t take a Civil War to get rid of it — only the women’s vote....
To: wideawake
Perhaps because trafficking in human flesh is bad policy as well as immoral.
Is it “trafficking” to be paid directly for one’s own services?
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:31:04 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney (...and another "Constitution-bot"))
To: ClearCase_guy
Either source your claims, or recant. (Please stop makin’ stuff up.)
108
posted on
05/09/2007 8:32:33 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney (...and another "Constitution-bot"))
To: psychoknk
So how do I determine if a right exists or doesn't? What is the litmus test? You can't say, "You just know." That won't fly in court
Neither does this apparent claim in your argument that what rights we have are defined by the government. After all, you did claim there would be additional rights we normally wouldn't have if there was anarchy.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:33:10 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
(Isaiah 10:1 - "Woe to those who enact evil statutes")
To: Lusis
Just a bunch of griping from some guys who can’t get “chicks” any other way, it seems....
“money for nothing and chicks for free”
To: Beelzebubba
Is it trafficking to be paid directly for ones own services?The notion that prostitutes are informed adults who make a rational decision to engage in consensual acts is mythical.
99.999% of prostitutes are women in desperate circumstances who are tricked or coerced by cynical individuals into the profession.
And that's true in jurisdictions where prostitution is legal, as well as ones in which it is illegal.
To: pgyanke
It would be wrong (to the extreme) to say that our Founding Fathers were "ok" with slavery. No it wouldn't. Some were perfectly fine with it; others weren't. You said as much in your post, in fact.
To: Star Traveler
I have to say these are misleading statements.
Women never were prohibited from voting by the national government. Women voted in NJ in national elections from the very start. They were prohibited later when a politico was upset they voted against him.
Until the 19A it was up to the states who could vote. Women were nowhere automatically barred from voting in the US.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:38:04 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: psychoknk
By making it illegal, is the spread of STDs being stopped? I would say that it isn't. The "all or nothing" argument, just doesn't fly.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:40:15 AM PDT
by
Realism
(Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
To: Lusis
Has the list been published anywhere. yet?
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:40:21 AM PDT
by
Sensei Ern
(http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - Ann Coulter is My Press Secretary)
To: Lusis
Uh...because is spawns all sorts of social and moral evils?
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:42:32 AM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
(Strength and honor.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
Give me a break. Do I have to call the language police? “Some” (as you put it) of the Founding Fathers being fine with slavery doesn’t make all of the Founding Fathers “ok with it”. It makes them very conflicted on the issue—as they were—as I posted. This is the point I made abundantly clear before your inane post.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:47:42 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO COMPROMISE YOUR PRINCIPLES ANYWAY... WHY WAIT?)
To: psychoknk
So how do I determine if a right exists or doesn't? What is the litmus test? You can't say, "You just know." That won't fly in court.Yes you can. The simple rule is: your rights stop at the other persons nose. In other words the minute the expression of your rights damages or interferes with the rights of another, your rights stop.
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posted on
05/09/2007 8:51:18 AM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!)
To: sentis1
Prostitution was legal under the government formed by the founding Fathers No, it wasn't.
While there never has been federal law outlawing prostitution in toto, it was outlawed in pretty much every local jurisdiction.
Prostitution was not legal in the Founding Fathers' days.
It was often legal by default in unorganized frontier territory, but was usually outlawed as that territory was organized into states.
To: psychoknk
If prostitution was legal, then there would be fewer pimpsThat hasn't been Europe's experience with legalized prostitution.
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