If pornography is legal, why is prostitution illegal?

[drebo]

Seriously, if I can pay someone to have sex with me on camera and it's perfectly legal, why is it illegal to pay someone to have sex with me with no camera?

Yay for dumbass moral double-standards!

 

[Insomniator]

Porn is regulated and can be taxed i guess?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Easy fix. Criminalize porn.

 

[SunnyD]

Easy fix. Legalize and regulate prostitution.

ftfy.

 

[techs]

Because porn is run by companies that can pay bribes to politicians while prostitutes are pretty much just cheap labor.

 

[Broheim]

Seriously, if I can pay someone to have sex with me on camera and it's perfectly legal, why is it illegal to pay someone to have sex with me with no camera?

Yay for dumbass moral double-standards!

prostitution is perfectly legal here in Denmark

Porn is regulated and can be taxed i guess?

why can't prostitution be regulated and taxed? seems to work perfectly fine around here...

 

[KeithTalent]

ftfy.

This. Makes no sense to leave it illegal.

KT

 

[Imp]

A lot of porn stars moonlight.

Does Jesus approve of prostitutes?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

A lot of porn stars moonlight.

Does Jesus approve of prostitutes?

Who cares? Here's $500 and 2g of coke. Do your job.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I believe shooting porn is actually only legal in a couple of states, though if you do it in a state where it is illegal and are arrested, you could probably win the protracted legal battle.

 

[drebo]

A lot of porn stars moonlight.

Does Jesus approve of prostitutes?

Who cares? We're a secular society, right? I mean, that's what people always claim.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The primary reason given that prostitution is illegal is safety; the abuses that persist between pimps and streetwalkers is pretty brutal. Of course, legalizing prostitution in brothels would end all that, but there's such a stigma against prostitution in our society that most politicians won't touch it. Pornography theoretically doesn't have the same abuses.

 

[kt]

Some of the counties in Nevada have legalized and regulated brothels.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Should make this a poll.. Which do you prefer, prostitutes or porn.

 

[Corporate Thug]

The primary reason given that prostitution is illegal is safety; the abuses that persist between pimps and streetwalkers is pretty brutal. Of course, legalizing prostitution in brothels would end all that, but there's such a stigma against prostitution in our society that most politicians won't touch it. Pornography theoretically doesn't have the same abuses.

This doesn't make much sense to me...we know that the abuses are ongoing while prostitution is illegal...wouldn't it make more sense to legalize in an effort to eliminate the abuses? presumably, it would reduce the need for pimps if the system operated like Amsterdam.

 

[Broheim]

The primary reason given that prostitution is illegal is safety; the abuses that persist between pimps and streetwalkers is pretty brutal. Of course, legalizing prostitution in brothels would end all that, but there's such a stigma against prostitution in our society that most politicians won't touch it. Pornography theoretically doesn't have the same abuses.

pimping is against the law here, which is unfortunate because my pimp hand is strong :thumbsup:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

This doesn't make much sense to me...we know that the abuses are ongoing while prostitution is illegal...wouldn't it make more sense to legalize in an effort to eliminate the abuses? presumably, it would reduce the need for pimps if the system operated like Amsterdam.

Yes, that's kind of my point. You don't see widespread pimping in Nevada because they have legal brothels. Take away the pimps and the protection racket and the abuse associated with prostitution drops off considerably. But there's still that social stigma against prostitution, so politicians ignore it completely. It's a non-issue on the national stage, and that's frankly ridiculous. It shows the complete lack of balls of our government.

 

[ElFenix]

why can't prostitution be regulated and taxed? seems to work perfectly fine around here...

amsterdam's red light district is a nexus of human trafficking. Dont have much reason to think denmark would be different.

 

[ElFenix]

Some of the counties in Nevada have legalized and regulated brothels.

I think its every county but the one LV is in

 

[Skel]

Film falls under the "art" category, so it's hard to say that Porn isn't "art" in a legal sense. There's also an argument to be had with that logic that there's a freedom of speech problem if you criminalize it. Prostitution on the other hand happens behind closed doors so you really can't "make a statement" with banging someone.. unless you charge people to watch, which is how sex shows work.. and the circle is complete.

 

[Lemon law]

To me the difference is in physical presence. As prostitution might be defined as a private citizen bribing some other person, the prostitute, to preform a mutual sex acts requiring the physical manipulation of the genitalia of either or both participants that would not otherwise occur without the bribe.

While porn might be defined as selling the images or written accounts of sex acts that requires no such in touching distance proximity.

 

[shortylickens]

 

[GrumpyMan]

Probably for the same reason you can prescribe pot for medical uses while it's illegal to smoke?

 

[amdhunter]

Should make this a poll.. Which do you prefer, prostitutes or porn.

Porn won't give you AIDS.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Porn won't give you AIDS.

John Holmes disagrees.