Reid Calls on Nevada Legislature to 'Outlaw' Prostitution

[sactoking]

With no personal or corporate income tax, I fail to see how the state's financial situation can be improved by attracting business there.

I understand employment would improve, but it isn't going to help state's financial condition. I suppose new facilities would bring in some property tax revenuse (assuming it wasn't waived as a benefit to attract the biz), but that's county, not state, revenue.

Since gambling and prostitution is already there, and they have no income tax, a better idea would be legalize pot and tax it.

Fern

You got it right when you said 'employment'. NV is #1 in the nation in unemployment. There are a lot of people here hurting really badly for money. Even with no income tax employment would help tremendously. A very large portion of the sales tax goes to the general fund. With more business in the state employment would rise, sales tax revenue would rise, and other non-tax fees would rise. The general fund would be helped tremendously.

 

[Exterous]

I fully support him, prostitution is damaging to society.

How so?

 

[jonks]

I fully support him, prostitution is damaging to society.

More importantly, is prohibition of prostitution less damaging to society? Sometimes divergent courses are both harmful and picking the lesser of the two is all you have to go with. We saw what banning alcohol did to the country. Keeping prostitution under the radar doesn't eliminate it, it merely renders it unregulated, untaxable, less safe (for johns and the janes), and stigmatizes it. Prohibition proponents claim they want to protect women when what they advocate sentences thousands to pimpdom, spreads disease, and energizes a blackmarket enterprise with all the attendant criminality that ensues (turf wars, violence towards women, bribery and corruption, etc).

 

[zsdersw]

All existing crimes for which there is no victim should no longer be crimes.

 

[her209]

Nevada doesn't have anything better to do?

Prostitution is perfectly fine if the payment is a roof over your head, and has been legally valid and called marriage for over a thousand years. Exchange currency and suddenly it's illegal.

Basically you're saying all wives are whores?

 

[ElFenix]

All existing crimes for which there is no victim should no longer be crimes.

are hookers really not victims themselves? :hmm:

 

[zsdersw]

are hookers really not victims themselves? :hmm:

If they're a hooker against their will, yes. If they choose to be a hooker, no.

 

[ch33zw1z]

are hookers really not victims themselves? :hmm:

Being a "hooker" and being a legal prostitute is two completely different things..

 

[her209]

Can a hooker tell a paid customer to stop if its hurting her?
Can a hooker refuse to fuck a person of a certain race or gender?
Can a hooker advertise their services openly?
etc.

 

[jonks]

Can a hooker tell a paid customer to stop if its hurting her?
Can a hooker refuse to fuck a person of a certain race or gender?
Can a hooker advertise their services openly?
etc.

Bet your ass he can, he's the one with the gun.

 

[BoberFett]

Basically you're saying all wives are whores?

Everyone is a whore. We just sell ourselves for different things. You whore yourself out to your employer for 40 hours a week. Why is a particular activity, sex, singled out and made illegal?

 

[BoberFett]

Can a hooker tell a paid customer to stop if its hurting her?
Can a hooker refuse to fuck a person of a certain race or gender?
Can a hooker advertise their services openly?
etc.

They could if prostitution was legal.

 

[Thump553]

Nevada doesn't have anything better to do?

Prostitution is perfectly fine if the payment is a roof over your head, and has been legally valid and called marriage for over a thousand years. Exchange currency and suddenly it's illegal.

You are either (A) not married, (B) very stupidly cynical or (C) planning to reside upon the couch for the foreseeable future. If your answer is A don't bother getting married in the future as it is doomed to failure.

 

[ElFenix]

If they're a hooker against their will, yes. If they choose to be a hooker, no.

do they really *choose* to hook? or are they forced into it because society has failed them?

 

[zsdersw]

do they really *choose* to hook? or are they forced into it because society has failed them?

They're not forced into it, at all.

 

[OCGuy]

do they really *choose* to hook? or are they forced into it because society has failed them?

Oh jesus I hope this is a parody of something/someone...

 

[BoberFett]

do they really *choose* to hook? or are they forced into it because society has failed them?

So what you're saying is that all shitty jobs should be made illegal. Because clearly if someone has a job that they don't like, it's because society has failed them and the answer it to make that profession illegal. Our unemployment rate would be 90%.

 

[ElFenix]

eh it's a law topic. that prostitution is illegal because something so fvcked up the hooker's psyche that s/he would 'choose' to do something 'normal' people would never do. so the hooker can't really choose, in the same way that a 17 year old can't consent if the age of consent is 18.

:shrug:

 

[drebo]

The idea that "society" failed someone is contrary to our way of life. Nothing is promised but opportunity. Nothing is guaranteed but opportunity. As such, society cannot "fail" someone to the point where they have to turn to whoring themselves out. It's always a choice.

 

[BoberFett]

eh it's a law topic. that prostitution is illegal because something so fvcked up the hooker's psyche that s/he would 'choose' to do something 'normal' people would never do. so the hooker can't really choose, in the same way that a 17 year old can't consent if the age of consent is 18.

:shrug:

Normal people fuck all the time, and quite often with different partners.

They do it for free.

Why is getting paid to do something you would do for free so horrible?

 

[OCGuy]

eh it's a law topic. that prostitution is illegal because something so fvcked up the hooker's psyche that s/he would 'choose' to do something 'normal' people would never do. so the hooker can't really choose, in the same way that a 17 year old can't consent if the age of consent is 18.

:shrug:

Ah so the government's job is to tell an adult female what she should do with her body, because they know what is best for her.

Isn't that the Republican argument for abortion-control?

 

[ch33zw1z]

eh it's a law topic. that prostitution is illegal because something so fvcked up the hooker's psyche that s/he would 'choose' to do something 'normal' people would never do. so the hooker can't really choose, in the same way that a 17 year old can't consent if the age of consent is 18.

:shrug:

Define "normal". You also need to clarify. The topic is Nevada, where prostitution is legal is some areas.

Prostitution being illegal is the result of people wanting to feel morally superior, when in fact continuing to keep this profession illegal doesn't stop it. On the contrary, illegal prostitution opens the door to underworld prostitution, which as we've seen in our history, creates an environment detrimental to the women and men who participate...but has never once stopped women or men who CHOOSE to participate.

There are many scenarios that could lead women to being a prostitute, some good and some bad...bottom line is that if it's LEGAL then it's a CHOICE. If it's illegal, then you don't know how they got to where they are.