Let's legalize prostitution now!

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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True. The income taxes paid on the earnings of legal prostitutes and the business they work from could go into education or training in something else.

Yes, I usually think of the ones on the street like runaway teenagers who can't do anything else. They are the ones that really suffer.
 

Because I would have been fabulously beautiful and, therefore, would have been in demand by fabulously wealthy clients...
 

Brothels operate legally in NSW. I haven't seen girls standing on street corners for years now.
The brothels are discreet but I suspect there are a lot of Asian girls trafficked into the country.
They think they are going to work in restaurants until they get here, then their passports are confiscated
and they have to service many men per day to pay off what they owe their traffickers.

It's nothing more than sexual slavery for a lot of vulnerable women.
 
Deb, you are right. Flashers should get permission before they open their raincoats...
 
Ralphy1 said:
Deb, you are right. Flashers should get permission before they open their raincoats...
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Ralphy1 said:
Dame, why aren't your gendarmes working to stop this?
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We have a great system. :mad:
If the girls make a complaint to the police, the brothel is raided but the girls are deported before any trial can take place.
Local councils try to prevent the brothels opening but they are overridden by state laws and regulations.

It's largely out of sight, out of mind but behind the closed doors all is not well.
 
After working with traumatized former sex workers one of whom was a high priced escort, I don't have a ready answer. As a woman, rather than a counselor, I struggle with the rage I feel toward some men who feel entitled to do unspeakable things to their rented "toy".
 
I think the idea that working girls enjoy what they do is largely a myth. I think it probably makes many of their clients rest easy. In my work, I have met two women who stated they enjoyed what they did. I only believed one of them.
 
Ralphy, broken people make many choices based on their personal pain. They are vulnerable to predators who convince them of the glamour of party life, expensive lifestyle, and mixing with the rich and powerful. The reality is usually vastly different. The further down the scale one goes, usually the greater the risk of regular degradation. No matter how some men wish to perpetuate the myth of the courtesan with the heart of gold who loves her work, the reality is much grittier. I have looked into these women's eyes and wept. As a child, I was one of them. It was not pretty.
 
The exploitation side of the sex industry is certainly disturbing and tragic. But like all human behavior there can be a plus side, such as with gambling and drinking when employed responsibly as entertainment...
 
Ralphy1 said:
How could there be a victim if both choose to participate?
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In the same way child sexual abuse can be. You do realize that many times this is consensual too.. A child, while a child is still a sexual being.. AND the child feels powerless to stop the advances of a more powerful adult.. especially an adult who they depend on for survival. These women, in a way, feel they are powerless to pull themselves out of their circumstances.. they feel dependent on pimps and Johns for money to survive. So while they are not fighting or opposing the sexual contact, one can hardly call it truly consensual if one party feels they have no choice.
 
Q.S. you are right, many of these women, some stats, state 80%, began as survivors of child sexual abuse. How could they as adults possibly find the clarity to clearly choose prostitution? Add that shame-helplessness mind-set to financial dependence, and fear of retaliation from pimps etc. choice is questionable at best.
 
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