Faces of prostitution: "Book" rewrites attitudes

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

[bigsigh]

Einstein, to blame there plight on anyone but themselves is ridiculous. People are responsible for the choices they make after about the age of 6.

Your generalizations about what happens to prostitutes are just that generalities.

More importantly, if some shank wants to run away from family use drugs and talk to men in BMRs and mercedes in Hollwood, I don't gice a damn. I want my taxes going to stop people from murder, thievery, and invasion.

[bigsigh]

and their plight for that matter

[Skooz]

OK.

But you just contradicted yourself.

Linus Pauling.

[bigsigh]

Your generality about prostitutes does not prove a contradiction on my part.

[lafroste]

America is one of the only industrialized nations that still criminalize prostitution

You mean "the only industrialized country besides Europe and Canada(?)". You should realize that arguing that "that's how they do it in Europe" is about the surest way to lose ground at Fr. Most of us look to see how europe does it, then do the diametric opposite. That way we can tell we are pretty close to right.

BTW Hi newbie.

[little jeremiah]

I prefer execution. Life in jail is too cruel.

Public beatings would be highly effecitve and cheap, too. In fact, the retiring head DA in this county told me personally that beatings a la Singapore are the only thing that will stop much crime, especially drug related. But, he added, "people will never go for it."

I know people that would.

[lafroste]

I bet if drugs were legalized we would see a 10,000% drop in violent crime here in the US

Oh come on! How can you have the crime rate drop by 10,000%? You know better than that, part of the problem is the extravagant hyperbole that people insist on injecting into any debate that makes clarity of communication so difficult.

[Skooz]

No, it doesn't

You agreed with the point that the problem prostitutes have is that their job is illegal.

I told you that the job causes the progressive destruction of their lives, regardless of the legal status of the job.

Then you said that "to blame there plight on anyone but themselves is ridiculous. People are responsible for the choices they make after about the age of 6."

So, the contradiction is that you imply that if they destroy their lives by being hookers, that's their problem.

But, you first agreed that if only their job were legal, they would not have the problem to begin with.

[P_A_I]

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[Paul C. Jesup]

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

If prostitution were legal, we would have courtesans, instead of street hookers.

[lafroste]

Pretty brave admission. You must have lived on the left coast. I lived in San Diego at that time, and meth was just getting popular. I saw that drug destroy several people and it was astonishing just how fast and how far they slid. Coke and crack are baby formula by comparison.

[marktwain]

Apples and oranges. In the former, both parties are taking part willingly. In the latter, the prostitute's drug habit is pushing her to turn tricks. If she didn't have the habit, she wouldn't need the money, therefore would be less likely to be selling her body to earn the money needed for the drugs. I would venture a guess that many of these girls do not WANT to be in prostitution, but find there's no other way to be a full time addict and a full time employee.

And if the drugs were legal, they would be cheap, and she would not have to sell herself, either.

The truth is that people who are prone to serious abuse have serious problems, and *will* find a chemical way to escape them, no matter what the law is.

The war on (some) drugs is an abject failure.

[Max in Utah]

Public beatings would be highly effecitve and cheap, too.

Follow up with an iodine bath...we can't have those stripes becoming infected, y'know. :)

[Skooz]

I was living in Bossier City/Shreveport, Louisiana.

The crap hit here hard and heavy in January 1984, and I was right in the middle of it.

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[Skooz]

Alllllllriiiiiiiight!!!!!!!!!

This thread has jumped the shark and morphed into a WOD thread now!

Totally...........

[bigsigh]

You continue to generalize in your replies and that's the error with your logic. I never said they would have no problems, I never said the job doesn't have any deteriorating effect. I never said it was THE problem.

If you make something illegal, you can't complain about the people that engage in it doing other illegal things. If it were legal, it might improve, health, be easier to tax and control, and even clean-up some streets.

We've tried to outlaw pleasure in the country from the start. People have been seeking sex from prostitutes and trying to get high as long as we know. I resent my taxes being spent on the moral rantings of people who want sin to be a crime.

And yes, people are responsible for their choices or else we're all socialists.

[marktwain]

If drug dealers were executed the drug problem would dimish very soon.

We had to kill the drug user to save her!

We can't even execute cannibal murderers in the U.S.

What are you smokin'?

[Diverdogz]

Damn. There isn't a whole lot of difference between her and a skeleton in the last two frames.

[Skooz]

You continue to generalize in your replies and that's the error with your logic.

My arguments may be incorrect (it happens sometimes), but my logic is flawless.

I never said they would have no problems, I never said the job doesn't have any deteriorating effect. I never said it was THE problem.

Then I misunderstood.