Sex does not offend. Having people pay money in exchange for the most intimate of human acts as casually as if one were picking up a few burgers at a fast food restaurant offends me. The world has enough temptation as it is. Why offer something else to corrupt people? Why further objectify women? Why further debauch people?
Sounds like the women enjoy their work and no one is forcing them to be prostitutes.
"The world has enough temptation as it is."
No doubt, yet prostitution is one of humanity's oldest fixtures. The desire for sexual activity is intrisic to being human.
For one reason or another, some do not form normal relationships, and seek their sexual activity outside of the relationships sanctioned by society. Some rape. Others seduce young people. And then, some pay money to others to have sex with them.
The third option I find less noxious than the first two. Apparently there is a lively market for prostitution, since it exists universally across societies.
I find it prefererable that it take place in legal surroundings than unregulated on the street. Criminalization of such things leads to criminals carrying them out. In Nevada, at least in the counties that allow prostitution, there is no street prostitution. In Clark County (Las Vegas), where it is not allowed, street prostitution and "Outcall" services are rampant.
Prostitution is not going away...ever. It ain't happening. So, I say that it should be legalized, regulated, and taxed. Let those who find it useful to hire prositutes do so, but under safe conditions.
As for me, I have never paid for sex, nor would I ever.
Question; should things which offend you be prevented? (at gunpoint if necessary)
The oldest profession has always been offensive, but it remains one of the most common of acts.
I am offended by most of what passes as "society" today.
LMAO!!! As if men don't pay for it anyway! Keep tellin yourself that, ok?
Oh, and you don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay them to shut up and go away when it's over.
I was rather surprised to learn that the push for making prostitution illegal in the US during the end of the 19th Century was primarlity to help prevent women from being forced into prostitution (although some folks will swear it was all American Puritanism).
In places such as Holland where prostitution is legal, it comes with a level of government regulation that would make most stateside libertarians howl with fury. And recently, the Dutch have become troubled by increasing numbers of protitutes who operate outside of the law, most of whom have been forced into the profession against their wills.
Some people believe that they aren't their brother's keeper.
Where is it written in the Constitution that Congress shall be sure to outlaw everything that offends Zack Nguyen?
"Having people pay money in exchange for the most intimate of human acts as casually as if one were picking up a few burgers at a fast food restaurant offends me."
They have a drive-thru?
Homosex offends me.