Let's legalize prostitution now!

There's one way to decide whether this is acceptable as a career choice for women - would any of us suggest it to our grand daughters as a way to pay for their college education or as a means of social advancement?

I used to shudder at the thought that any of my students would fall into this trap, even though some of them seemed like they might be naturals.

One of them did.

She was a beautiful child when I first knew her but her mother had terminal cancer and became violent towards the girl. The relationship with her father seemed a little unnatural but it could have been all on the girl's side. She was desperate to be loved. She was adopted and her little brother was a natural child. When the mother became very sick, her relatives came and took the brother away to care for but refused to take the girl. By this time she was acting out at school in a fairly outrageous fashion but we were managing her pretty well. Each day she would report to the Principal who would go over her timetable with her and negotiate which lessons she could behave in and for those she couldn't, she would come and camp in either her office or mine. She was OK for the women but really gave the men hell. Significant? Personally I think it could have been an indicator of something wrong with her relationship with the father, but again, it needn't have been anything sexual.

Eventually she ran away from home and ended up in a youth refuge. Still attended school every day. Then the refuge ran out of funding and closed. All the kids in it made a pact to go downtown and get into trouble with the police so that they would all go into Minda (a juvenile remand centre) together.

When she appeared before the court she was given 2 weeks to find somewhere to live or go into detention. She was 14 at the time. She came up with a 22 year old woman with a baby who was a drug addict and the court allowed her to move in with her. She could no longer come to our school because it was much too far away.

She became addicted and hit the streets. It was heart breaking but the story didn't end there.

After a couple of years she was picked up from the gutter by a local clergyman who took her into his home with his own family. Quite brave in the circumstance IMO. The next time I saw her she was clean and studying at Bible college and she was engaged to be married. She had even reconciled with her father. The lovely child I had first known had come back and she was still beautiful and fully alive.

I wish someone would rescue all of the damaged children before they enter the sex trade with all its associated evils.
 
Can we get past the abuse of children and just admit that many women choose to prostitute without any coercion or as the the result of any precipitating factors?
 

D.W. so do I. Sometimes, all we can do is try to help them afterward. I was fortunate my hell ceased before adulthood. Many of my fellow children of both sexes did not fare so well. The invisibility of this insidious crime against the most helpless and innocent continues, largely unabated, especially among the wealthy. Money buys depravity limited only by imagination.
 
Ralphy1 said:
Can we get past the abuse of children and just admit that many women choose to prostitute without any coercion or as the the result of any precipitating factors?
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Ralphy... you are oversimplifying the topic by insinuating it's about SEX and the enjoyment it can provide. It seldom is.. not for the women.


While biology makes sex a pleasurable thing.. and necessary for the survival of the species... sex for men and sex for women can be two different animals Ralphy. Sex and the enjoyment of it is more complex for women. Perhaps because the act of being entered is more submissive than the act of entering, which is far more powerful. Sex is much more personal for women in some regards.. and through the ages, women have had more at stake concerning sex.
 
I am glad that some overcome horrible experiences as children and didn't intend this aspect of prostitution as part of this thread...
 
Ralphy1 said:
I am glad that some overcome horrible experiences as children and didn't intend this aspect of prostitution as part of this thread...
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Well... you have learned.. Sex and the circumstances surrounding it... particularly the exploitation of it... is a really different type of topic for women.. than men.
 
Ameriscot said:
I agree it should be legalized but only in regulated places where the ladies are well taken care of and safe.
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In the state of Nevada prostitution is legal in a licensed brothel; "street walking" is not legal though.

PS. Many women choose to turn to prostitution to finance their drug habit.
 
tnthomas said:
In the state of Nevada prostitution is legal in a licensed brothel; "street walking" is not legal though.

PS. Many women choose to turn to prostitution to finance their drug habit.
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Yes, that's what I meant. A legal brothel. Streetwalking is never safe.
 
Ralphy1 said:
With everything else being legalized we should decriminalize this oldest of professions. We could tax it, license it, and provide health inspections. The time has come to stop arresting everybody involved; twenty-two men were arrested over the weekend in a sting operation here. Couldn't the police be spending their time on more important activities? Makes sense to me and I'm sure to you...
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I agree it should be legalized. Nothing more pathetic than women cops who could be doing something constructive to earn their pay, dressing up like whores just to bust some poor sap with fifty bucks in his pocket looking for a thrill. Making it legal would also take care of all the pimps who cause more abuse than the customers, those are the ones who should be arrested.
 
QuickSilver said:
I think that when a lot of people think of prostitution, they tend to think of the high priced Call Girls... the Escorts... and the Hollywood Madam. The $1,000 a night club.. not the poor woman degraded in an alley for $2. I'm not totally against legalization, but the proceeds need to go toward helping the women, not into the tax coffers or some politicians campaign fund.
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Hey! You trying to price some of us out of the market? I hope she knows I'm kidding....
 
tnthomas said:
In the state of Nevada prostitution is legal in a licensed brothel; "street walking" is not legal though.

PS. Many women choose to turn to prostitution to finance their drug habit.
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The funny part of that story is it is NOT legal in Clark County where Las Vegas is. I lived in Nevada new the bunny ranch years ago. The advertised and that was not a cheap operation.
 
AZ Jim said:
The funny part of that story is it is NOT legal in Clark County where Las Vegas is. I lived in Nevada new the bunny ranch years ago. The advertised and that was not a cheap operation.
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I thought it was just a certain of Nevada where it was legal?
 
I don't think it's about the women, who are desperate in my opinion, and get trapped into it (drugs, money). I think men want it. It has always filled a need for men who don't have access to women for some reason. I think it should be legalized everywhere, and regulated, since it's not going anywhere and the women are endangered.
 
Cookie said:
It has always filled a need for men who don't have access to women for some reason. I think it should be legalized everywhere, and regulated, since it's not going anywhere and the women are endangered.
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I agree. I'd much rather have a man who wants sex to pay a hooker $20 for a quickie in the back seat, than grab a woman jogger off the path in a park and rape her. It's the woman who is raped by these types of men that are the victims, not the prostitutes who are doing it willingly with strangers for money.
 

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