Why is Prostitution Illegal?

[Dags90]

Well, because they don't want prostitution to be a back up plan. If it was legal, every broke gal would become one. Keeping it illegal lowers the amount of them out and about.

So you're saying that prostitution isn't affected by conventional economics? This article disagrees with you. As a service, prostitution would face the same economic pressures as anything else. Too much competition without an increase in demand would mean profits would tank.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/2360859/Sex-industry-fights-economic-crisis

There are a lot of good arguments in this thread against prostitution.

I feel more educated.

There really aren't. There are a lot of acceptable arguments against prostitution as it currently exists. Many of the scenarios people present simply aren't the case in countries and places where prostitution is legal, and they provide no reasons to believe that it would not be the case in the U.S.

This isn't to say that they aren't persuasive, but they aren't logically good arguments.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I'm not sure I've ever understood it either. Porn is legal. Why not prostitution?

It's going to happen either way, so I personally think it's better to have it monitored by the government than fuel crime and put women at risk.

Also, sad though it may be, there are going to be people out there who need to pay for sex. Whether it be because of a disability, a mental handi cap, disfigurement ect there are some people who are unlightly to find themselves a partner. Are these people to be denied one of the greatest human pleasures?

 

[Continuity]

The same reason why Child Labour is banned. Because it's immoral.

What is immoral about consensual sex between adults? Why is it immoral to make money having consensual sex with adults?

its immoral because the majority of prostitutes are victims, either of drug abuse or circumstance.

 

[rokkolpo]

I have never fully understood this. As the late (and great) George Carlin said, "Selling is legal, fucking is legal. Why is it illegal to sell fucking?" "Why is it illegal to sell what is perfectly legal to give away?"


Sex is legal when its free, but illegal when you pay for it. It doesn't make sense to me.
Here is my proposed solution. You have to have a license to be a prostitute, which requires a weekly STD test. Fail the test, lose your license.

Any ideas why prostitution is illegal and any idea ideas on how it would work if it was legal (like the above mention license)?

it is legal in holland.(where i live)

and obviously illegal in many other countries because women get exploited. and don't think people care if they get exploited. just fuck away.

it is a real profession but many many times it's women being forced to have sex with men by other men.

 

[Sir_Tor]

Becuse many many many of the prostitutes don't wanna be there?

In Sweden it's legal to sell but illegal to buy. In an attemp to protect the prostitutes.

 

[Westaway]

You know there is no logical reason to insult my theory. I think it is true. Legal= more of it.

 

[Dags90]

You know there is no logical reason to insult my theory. I think it is true. Legal= more of it.

I didn't know a theory could be insulted, I'm sorry if I hurt your theory's feelings.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I think laws that harm only you should not exist. Who gives a flying fuck what Johnny does with his Saturday night. Only laws that can kill others should remain. If Johnny gets his kicks with a hooker and catches an STD, whatever, he shouldn't have done that. Should he get his girlfriend infected, that chick should have known he was with a hooker and he should have told her he had an STD.

If you smoke weed, whatever, if you crash your car, get to jail.

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

I think, because with every thing you do, you need to be careful. You can remedy bad selling, and forget about bad sex. But you can't really remedy STD's, so if you get one you are screwed. Since a lot of people refuse or just don't use proper protection from the get go, spreading an incurable disease like HIV doesn't seem like a really good idea.

PROBLEM! Alcohol is sold and alcoholism is a disease. Tobacco's sold in various manors and it can be extremely harmful in various ways depending on consumption type.

Also, to the point of sex being an addiction, so are each of those, yet they're sold just fine.

You can break the addiction of alcohol and cigarettes, though. When you get AIDs, there is no going back. Therein lies the difference. Your life is now on a very short timer, and you can spread it fairly easily to someone else too.

Bullshit argument is bullshit.

AIDS isn't limited to prostitution. You can give sex away for free, ya know... Nobody holds every person you sleep with to a disease screening except you. If your standards are lax or the person you're sleeping with had one moment of indiscretion, jig is up.

A legalized prostitute would have to be subject to constant testing that your normal person would not as a job standard.

Let's not play the disease card on something that is freely given every second of every day. It just distracts from actual facts and actually works in favor of legalized prostitution instead of against.

Hehg, all I'm saying is the other legal 'bad things' can be overcome/fixed. HIV can't. I don't believe it will be totally legal until they can cure AID's personally.

Lung cancer is pretty damn fatal but we still have cigarettes...

And, again, I am going to point out the fatal flaw in your thinking. Sex is freely obtainable for a high number of people, a lot of which lack discriminating tastes in partners. Soooooooo, how does keeping prostitution illegal do anything but make prostitution illegal? Your logic only supports legalizing prostitution as it would subject them to testing and scrutiny.

*shakes head* I'm not trying to say that, heh but it doesn't matter. I was trying to explain something entirely different (not really relating to prostitution all that much) in this thread and I just realized it. Ohh well. Sorry for wasting your time guys. :x

My apologies for snapping then. This is one of my pet internet debates so I get touchy about it. Again, my apologies.

 

[midget_roxx]

For all those that say it's just adults having consented sex it's not entirely true. Usually the women are abused or illegal immigrants. It's very hard for a women to leave the "business" because the pimp will want to make sure that they don't go around telling the police about his "business". The men having sex with a prostitute will sometimes insist on having no protection, thus paving the way for the woman to get STD's and possibly pregnant where they will have to abort the baby (mental trauma) or effectively have no income.

By making prostitution illegal it cuts down on those problems of women being mistreated.

As for why child labour is bad (my god, you all quote posted my mailbox to death) it's because of some of the conditions that are placed upon children when they are working. Instead of getting education or enjoying life, they are working and trying to earn money (at a much lower rate).

Now a parent getting his 10 year old to mow the lawn isn't immoral because 1. They are paid more (generally) 2. The work can be overlooked by their parents so no problems will occur 3. Child labour is classifed when a business uses children as a labour force.

 

[tofulove]

every issues related with prostitution is because its illegal, the criminal part, violence rape murder. its all cause its illegal, legalize it and regulated it. its no longer criminal. the violence rape and murder and abuse would skyrocket down to almost nothing.

when you make some thing a crime that should not be a crime, it becomes a crime. if you made worms illegal, uncle bob would have to go to the mafia to get his worms for fishing. and he might get killed for wearing a wire cause officer dennis was going to send him to jail for 20 years for illegal worm use.

Watch penn and teller by any chance

maybe

 

[miscelaneous]

I'd say it has to due with religious influence.

 

[RanD00M]

Well professional Brothels kinda have you beat there.All the girls there go to a bi weekly check up.

 

[Kakkoi]

In the US certain states have legal brothels. And Most of them have very strict policies regarding STD testing and such.

It actually isn't whole states, the only place I've ever heard of for legal brothels in the U.S. is whatever county just outside of Vegas. And look what's happened to Vegas! Celine Dion.

That's why prostitution is illegal, fear of hammy Canadian singers.

That Celine Dion crack was because I'm Canadian, right? Well that's okay we hate her here too that's why we dumped her on the US.

 

[Dags90]

That Celine Dion crack was because I'm Canadian, right? Well that's okay we hate her here too that's why we dumped her on the US.

I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Canadian. You have my condolences.

Spoiler: Click Me!

That one was because you're Canadian. Also is sarcasm.

 

[Eggsnham]

Because we're all uptight about things that don't matter?