A: Because law is an expression of morality against which prostitution is an offence.
When a person thinks they've been harmed they have the right to take the suspect to court before an impartial jury and prove their case so as to gain restitution for their loss and suffering. Secondary, yet still important is protecting other persons from the suspect and is the reason for criminal trial and sentencing.
How many violent criminals -- murder, rape, assault, theft, fraud -- in prison are working to pay restitution to their victims? The imprisoned criminal should be working to pay his or her victim restitution.
Many if not most people sacrifice the individual, in whole or in part, for the greater good of the group -- the ends justify the means. They place the secondary, the criminal court, as more important than the primary, the victim, gaining restitution. They place State authoritarian power above individual rights, above inalienable rights.
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”
Has the list been published anywhere. yet?
Uh...because is spawns all sorts of social and moral evils?
A: Bacause the government hasn't quite figured out a way to tax it...
Mark
Yeah, pretty much because it is immoral. Granted, I’m not going to frown on someone who turns 21 or whatever and goes to Vegas. That’s basically just being a kid, but when that’s your main source of how you get pleasure not only is it pathetic but unhealthy.
It’s probably already been said, but nonetheless:
How is being paid for sex worse than giving it away for free?
At least the prostitute is getting something out of it.
Meanwhile, we have a whole society of immoral people constantly giving it away, and yet they still turn up their noses at official whores!
I still think prostitution should be illegal, but I also think prostitutes are smarter than the just-plain-immoral every-day women who screw around just because they want to (never mind the men). They’re no worse.
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Obama is fatigued and says he is prone to make mistakes when he's tired. I thought that a woman should have the right to do as she pleases with her body!
Just make sure that Mr. Tobias knows that it is OK to lie about it, since it is only about sex.
Yes, even under oath. It should be called the Clinton Precedent.
That could be it.
Because some people still believe the Bible is the Word of God.
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His arguement should have been that he wasn’t paying for the sex, he was paying them to leave.......
You don’t pay for the sex. You pay for them to leave. It is not considered prostitution if you set up a video camera. It is then an “adult movie” set.
It is illegal, but not 100% illegal. You can pay a woman for “companionship” legally, and anything she agrees to afterward is merely consensual. This is why is is difficult for the authorities to prosecute escort services in court on charges other than tax evasion, unless said services were stupid enough to advertise sex outright.
A quote from the inimitable P.J. O'Rourke,
in the Ecology chapter of All the Trouble in the World:
..."If recycling is so great," said Jerry, "how come no private individual will pay you to do it?"
"Sex is great," I said, "and no private individual will pay me to do that." Jerry said he wasn't surprised.
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Cheers!