This is just rediculous.

[ryzmah]

Originally posted by: ELP

Originally posted by: ryzmah

Originally posted by: ELP

...and by your logic, alcohol would be illegal too. The difference between prostitution and drugs is that if you use the drugs, while intoxicated you could be a social hazard i.e. driving, operating machinery, generally endangering others. I've never heard of someone who visited a prositute and proceeded to harm or kill someone as a direct result of paying for sex. Let me know if you have any information on any instances of that.

I'm sure there are numerous instances where people have gotten STD's and then spread them to their spouse.

This is why I asked why doesn't the government ban all sex out of wedlock. It's also safe to say that there is far more promiscuous sex happening then prostitution, therefore, the spread of STD's can be more attributed to promiscuous sex. Hmmm, that's a big danger to society, better make that illegal too.

By the way, what's the social hazard of selling organs? Incest?

I only referred to drugs.

No one else claimed to make a standard for laws - they only noted the absurdity of the notion that the constitutional standard is that the only possible laws are those that one's rights only end when they intrude on those of another. You can debate whether that's a more valid standard, but to say that laws that don't meet it are unconstitutional (as the poster who started this thread did) is complete bs.

 

[upsciLLion]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Welcome to the USA, where sexual morality is legislated, and anyone who does not have "good Christian values" is a criminal. Prostitution is a victimless crime and should be legal.

Yeah I hate that I can't kill people and steal their car/shoes/food/mate and get away with it.

ups

 

[Xenon14]

Originally posted by: ELP

Originally posted by: bolido2000

Originally posted by: Konigin

Originally posted by: Xenon14
I'm watching fox, and they have cops arresting people that are paying for prostitution. Beside the fact that this law is downright rediculous, it is also unconstitutional. What two people do with with their money and their body is their business. Regardless of the values that these people have, they have the right to engage in what they please. Same thing applies to gambling. The only time a person's rights can be limited is if that person violates another's rights. Prostitution is mutual agreement, a business transaction. You're paying for a service. Same as gambling. Same as getting a taxi cab. I just can't fathom tax dollars going to police other people's sexual habits. Lunacy.

yeah sure :disgust: except when its illegal. Selling coke is also a business transaction.

Ditto. Based on that logic everything should be legal as long as in done with 2 adults with "mutual agreement". Incest, organ selling, body mutilations, drug trafficking, etc

...and by your logic, alcohol would be illegal too. The difference between prostitution and drugs is that if you use the drugs, while intoxicated you could be a social hazard i.e. driving, operating machinery, generally endangering others. I've never heard of someone who visited a prositute and proceeded to harm or kill someone as a direct result of paying for sex. Let me know if you have any information on any instances of that.

We all know prostitution is illegal due to the government forcing morality on it's citizens. That's it plain and simple. Why don't they just make any sex outside of marriage illegal? Afterall, isn't also the government's business what two consenting people do by themselves? <--sarcasm meter high

Exactly.