Should prostitution be legal?

[MacMadame 81]

I can't get over how some of you equate a prostitute to a waitress or a secretary.

I can't get over how some people think a business transaction between consenting adults is a moral issue. :tongue2:

[losingjusme 12]

What would God do...? Who knows? How do YOU know what God would do?

i heard someone has a direct line to God... i think cell phone!

[Kat817 19]

I don't claim to know much about the legalities of legalizing prostitution. But can see where it would create more government....BUT I can also see where it would create a much safer over all type of business, because as has been pointed out, it is not going away. Whether it is legal or moral or not it is here to stay.

Oviously there is a way to make it legal, if Nevada has managed it for all these years.

The way I see it, is it is a service. If it were legal, I could choose to use the legal, licensed prostitute working in a local brothel....or I could save some $$$ and find one on the street.

Compare it to say, painting my house. I could look in the yellow pages, and find a licensed, bonded painter.....and have recourse should something go wrong, or I could save a few bucks, and hire the neighbors cousins boyfriend....and if he falls from the ladder, it is MY expense. The choice would ultimately be mine. A clean, legal transaction, or one more under the table, that I take the chances with.

I have no experience with hookers, but figure not many of them will be falling from ladders! But, there are issues I am sure, and with things the way they are now....the hooker or the pimp will be who takes care of things---by taking care of you!

Say you pay XXX amount of money for certain services, and feel those services were not met as agreed upon. Possibly with legalization you would have recourse by at least being able to complain without having the crap beat out of you!

There are always going to be those going about it illegally, and in relation to the gangs---but if given a legal option, many of the prositutes, as well as those using their services may well opt to pay the taxes etc. for it to be legal, and not to land on the next show of 20/20 or Cops or something!

Kat

[BJean 16]

Good post Kat - as usual!

[green 6]

I have a degree in marketing, I can help you. :wub: I can be a pimp too.... lol....

Boy, when I think of all the sex I gave away free..... What I shoulda had was a business manager. I could have retired at the age of 40 instead of 57. Too bad that I was born a natural blonde!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Boy, when I think of all the sex I gave away free..... What I shoulda had was a business manager. I could have retired at the age of 40 instead of 57. Too bad that I was born a natural blonde!

Tell me about it. I bet it would have been safer to save the money underneath the mattress anyway these days.

[green 6]

Yah, you are right about the mattress. *Green sighs bitterly*

[Carrie_C 9]

Well, I have known a lot of prostitutes and they are just working, making money, and paying their bills just like the rest of us!

[plain 12]

Tell me about it. I bet it would have been safer to save the money underneath the mattress anyway these days.

Plus it mutes the squeaking springs from all that sex!

[BethFromVA 5]

Well, I have known a lot of prostitutes and they are just working, making money, and paying their bills just like the rest of us!

Well... not "just" like the rest of us! :thumbup:

[Carrie_C 9]

HA HA! Well, you know what I mean!

[BethFromVA 5]

HA HA! Well, you know what I mean!

Yep, but I couldn't just let that one slide. It was just wide open for me. :thumbup:

[BJean 16]

Funny Green! And Plain, why am I not surprised that you seem to have personal knowledge about cash muting the squeeking springs! You animal!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Plus it mutes the squeaking springs from all that sex!

:thumbup: Whoa! I can ALWAYS count on you!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Yep, but I couldn't just let that one slide. It was just wide open for me.

*Ahem* Pun intended?? :thumbup: