Originally posted by: DrPizza
Seems to me that legalizing prostitution would ultimately create more of a demand for its services. I don't think any of the females I know are thinking, "you know, I'd love to be a prostitute, the pay is great, it's just that it's illegal. That's the only thing holding me back. I don't want to break the law."
Think of all the other shitty jobs - picking crops in fields, working in kitchens... Those types of jobs are the ones that very frequently are filled by illegal immigrants. And, many of those immigrants didn't just decide to walk across the border on their own. They were helped. Here in Western NY, we recently had a bunch of restaurants closed down. The people who worked there were essentially slaves, brought here for the purpose of working in those restaurants.
Seems that legalizing prostitution would actually increase these types of problems.
I think what BoberFett was saying though is that legalizing it would effectively lower the market price of the product: sex.
It's illegal, so there's risk involved. Risk raises the price people will want to charge, and if people are willing to pay it, then you have a viable market.
If it's possible to effectively procure "workers" to bring in this high revenue at low cost, then people will do things like bring in slaves to do the job, while reaping HUGE profits. And like BoberFett said, if you're already dealing with one illegal thing, prostitution, getting into the slave trade is just another minor inconvenience.
If it were legal, the risk goes away, and the price drops. Suddenly, it's not nearly as profitable, and so not worth taking on the risk of getting involved in something illegal like human slave trade.
Hell, you could have
licensed prostitutes, required to regularly get checked for STDs - as the customer, you know you're paying for a clean worker, and good, legal service. Versus going to some slummy place and getting someone who doesn't speak English, who isn't licensed, and who might give you some disease you've never heard of - and using the services of a criminal.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be enough done about dealing with illegal immigrants as it stands now. Too many people are too stupid, and politicians are too cowardly and stupid to address it.
Too many morons say that opposing illegal immigration means you hate all non-whites, and you hate all immigration. Then the politicians cave in immediately, and start looking the other way when it comes to illegals, because they're too stupid to address the public directly: "I don't have immigrants. I oppose
illegal immigrants. You are welcome to come here
legally."
Legalizing drugs: They can be taxed
and regulated. We already have tobacco and alcohol, which are themselves addictive and carcinogenic. Why they hold some magical place over other drugs, I have no idea.
Originally posted by: JSt0rm01
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Since a lot of those individuals are underage/children, we should legalize pedophilia and the molestation/rape of minors?
I don't think anybody would argue that legalized prostitution should include children. Make the minimum age like 25 or something. If you can't rent a car you can't sell your ass
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Indeed. Something that you seemed to have missed, Capt Caveman, was the mention of "victims" - if someone voluntarily chooses to be a prostitute, where's the victim? Someone is legally defined as a minor because society has determined that a person of such age is not really capable of making informed, rational, adult decisions. Thus they get special protection and limited freedoms under the law. Thus they would not be permitted to enter the prostitution market, just as they are not allowed now to enter into the pornography industry.
