Faces of prostitution: "Book" rewrites attitudes

Denver Post ^ | 3/28/05 | Amy Herdy

[rhema]

COURTNEY SEALE, 28 | Seale has more than 60 arrests for larceny, drugs, assault and prostitution. The third photo shows her jaw, broken in a beating, wired shut. She currently has a warrant out for her arrest in Washington. She couldn’t be reached for this story.

[conservative cat]

The important thing is prostitution and drugs. Not that I am condoning prostitution, but I bet Heidi Fleiss's girls didn't look like that.

[SteveMcKing]

This isn't news to conservatives. In fact, it's "told-ya-so" material to show your liberal pals who think every vice is harmless and should be legal.

[AmericaUnited]

Those libertarians really have to come up with some 'wizzy' marketing to overcome this...

This is like George Felos saying 'people look beautiful' after 12 days without food or water.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I just wish people wouldn't abuse the term "victimless crime". It's a legal term, meaning there is no reporting victim. In assault, robbery or fraud, there is someone whose rights were violated and there is a violator. There is a victim of a crime. In contraband, whether drugs, guns, African art or foie gras, both buyer and seller want to take part in the transaction, therefore there is no victim to report a crime. Prostitution falls into this category, both the prostitute and john want the transaction to take place.

This doesn't mean, that taking drugs, alcohol, streetwalking is harmless. People hurt themselves with these things as they hurt themselves in many other ways. Depending on your philosophy, people are victims or perpetrators of their addictions.

[bigfootbob]

The gal pictured is a tweeker

[Mount Athos]

yeah, meth. Keep anyone you care about the hell away from crystal meth.

[Max in Utah]

Those libertarians really have to come up with some 'wizzy' marketing to overcome this...

"Whatcha ya gonna believe-- your ideology or your lyin' eyes?"

[SteveMcKing]

"Those libertarians really have to come up with some 'wizzy' marketing to overcome this..."

I'm counting the seconds ticking before our own "Pot-is-Awesome!" crowd chimes in with their 2 cents. I'm sure it was "the system" that hurt these women, and if they only used drugs in moderation they'd be OK....

[Max in Utah]

I would support the death penalty for cooks and dealers of meth.
I've seen what an addiction to that drug can do, and it's horrible.

[G32]

I'm sure you won't have to wait long. The libertarian loonies will be along to stink up the thread soon.

[investigateworld]

I second the motion and add an "Amen".

[traviskicks]

It's the hard drugs not the prostituion thats destroying these women. You have to weigh things like this against the half a million non violent pot users languishing and being corrupted in jail draining tax payers dollars.

I think the Libertarian views weigh serious consideration.

After all, is the government's policy STOPPING these women from doing drugs and destroying their lives? Clearly the war on drugs has been an abject failure. I'm ready to try something new.

Liberty often has profoundly good results that are often opposite the opinions of it's detractors.

[motexva]

The fact is, the ones who work the chicken ranches in Nevada are in good shape, not strung out, not diseased and do pretty well for themselves. If it was regulated you wouldn't see a lot of these problems. Of course, even if every state had a district like the county in NV, you would still see illegal acts of prostitution because you will always have people willing to sell it and others willing to buy, and all the moralizing in the world won't change that.

If you all want to waste your tax money prosecuting this stuff, have fun. I wish I could get a refund on mine because it's as big a waste as the welfare state. Neverending demand, neverending supply and you will never see the penalties become unduly harsh because the people passing the legislation also enjoy the vice itself.

All this applies to the drug war as well, another never ending, never won moralistic crusade with a large set of corrupt lobbyists and civil servants who depend on the crusade for their livlihood.

I'm sure the pictures are sad. These doxies want to destroy themselves, it's their business, not mine.

[Ramius]

I'm sure it was "the system" that hurt these women, and if they only used drugs in moderation they'd be OK....

It wasn't the system, it was the meth. We should have made meth illegal so that this wouldn't have happened to her. Maybe we should make prostitution illegal too.

[AmericaUnited]

It's the hard drugs not the prostituion thats destroying these women. You have to weigh things like this against the half a million non violent pot users languishing and being corrupted in jail draining tax payers dollars.

Agreed! It is stupid to give people hard jail time for small amounts of weed. Completely non-productive!!! They should make weed offenders mow people's laws. :)

[AmericaUnited]

"mow people's laws" = mow peoples LAWNS.

[Max in Utah]

I'm counting the seconds ticking before our own "Pot-is-Awesome!" crowd chimes in with their 2 cents.

There's a world of difference between cannabis and street drugs like meth, crack and smack. About as much difference as between beer and Sterno.

Pot isn't terribly good for you, but all by itself it won't drive you into the gutter.

[Ecliptic]

" Not that I am condoning prostitution, but I bet Heidi Fleiss's girls didn't look like that."

Maybe not the first 6 months of working for her....................BUT WHAT DO YOU &#@^$** THINK THEY LOOK LIKE NOW!!!!????

[Richard Kimball]

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