Thats the true fear from it. Like in Europe the Russian Mafia has women all over Europe as sex slave. They lure them in Russia for a job oppurtunity like Teacher and take them away threaten them and their family and hold them in the sex slave trade. You can get them licence, test repeatly and make strict restrictions for deseases
Correct Prostitution is a choice. . . slavery is not I think Legalized Prosititution would be nothing like you see on the streets of anytown USA. Rocket River
I see your point and it is correct but you must realize that the majority of the slaves in the world are women or children sold in the sex trade. It is technically prostitution and slavery. More like an indentured servant who can never work off their debt really. The USA has hundreds of thousands of slaves still today.
Lets say a house has 5 registered workers or however it is done then 10 more unregistered workers. Even if they get raided it will be hard to stop such acts. It it hard to stop massage parlors from even screwing their patients much less regulate how many employees you have.
I get what you are trying to say, but comparing restaurants to prostitution?It's a difference in your daughter getting a summer job at Bennigan's vs a summer job as a prostitute don't you think?
so what you saying . .. is illegality is gonna happen no matter what So In you ALTERNATIVE WORLD instead of 5 registered and 10 unregistered we'd just have 15 unregistered . . and that is better than having 5 registered because. . . . . . ok . .I'm lost . . . why is having 15 unregister is better than 10? Rocket River
Because now they are illegal so the houses are small and there are not very many of them. With legal houses they will build many, expanding the market. Is that really hard to understand?
My understanding is that the law more or less doesn't try to shut these places down if they don't get too big and obvious. In other words, they choose to not police them because they know that every time they shut down an illegal parlor, another illegal parlor will just spring up in its place because there is a market of people who will pay for sex. They view it more as managing an inevitable activity. If it were legal, then illegal prostitution wouldn’t necessarily be inevitable any more. Furthermore, if you make it legal, you could then tax it and funnel a significant portion of the funds back into dedicated enforcement. Couple new dedicated funds with a new paradigm of enforcement, and you might be talking about two situations that aren’t comparable. Also, with a license, you could require things like very invasive inspections as part of the license process. These would be inspections that vice cops couldn't do at "massage parlors" without establishing probable cause. With my FFL license, the ATF can come into my home at any time they want - with no notice - to inspect whatever they want. They obviously can’t do that to a non-licensee. I am required to surrender some of my rights as a condition of getting the license. Look at how much easier it is to regulate and control the alcohol industry since prohibition. During prohibition, people were getting served wood alcohol and chloroform. Licensing enabled BATF to stick their nose into the distiller’s business and prevent the stuff that happened in an unlicensed/unregulated market place. When was the last time you heard of anybody going blind from drinking an alcoholic drink?
They can do the same thing with these parlors because most of them have to have a massage license and also must follow a dress code. Any infractions results in fines or arrests. You also cannot compare drugs and alcohol to people because drugs and alcohol become cheap when legal where people become more expensive when you remove the punishment from the clients. Therefore the allure of slaves and the increased demand becomes very dangerous. What are you going to do when Vice finds a house full of illegals but not direct evidence of them working? If this country had any kind of ability to control the borders and improved immigration I might change my mind but frankly as of right now we have nothing.
The state of Texas could make alot more money, and have alot less worry if they would legalize and regulate poker/gambling.
I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. F***ing is legal. Why isn't selling f***ing legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? I can't follow the logic on that one at all! Of all the things you can do, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world. In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people! In civilian life you go to jail for giving someone an orgasm! ~ George Carlin. Btw, I don't see a problem with it. Just another way of trying to get into other people's business.
I think it should be legalized, but there should be limitations. Just like the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, there would be institutions. Places where the girls/guys would work. Agencies wouldn’t allow their employees to stand on the street corners to pick up customers. Girls are tested regularly for STD’s. Do you think all the girls on the street right now are clean? I think there should be an age limit to keep people from dropping out of school. If your still in high school, you don’t need to be selling your body. There should be no advertising, who wants to be driving down the road with their children in the car with a large billboard offering sex services?! But if it was regulated and handled well, it would make money, there could be taxes on it. Of course there would be underground places, still prostitutes on the corner. Therefore, every one who isn’t associated with a company, would fall under those who could still be arrested. There would need to be some sort of identification process for the employees. There are holes in this theory and idea, like anything that isn’t framed correctly and hammered out. But it’s an idea for a start…
I think it should be legal but pimping shouldn't. The prostitutes need to protected from organized crime and predators.
There's a Scandinavian country that has done just this. (I forget which.) They basically require that all prostitutes are independent contractors. It seems to be the best solution. The general tendency is for most prostitutes to be sex slaves, regardless of legality. Denmark and the Netherlands, despite their best efforts to regulate prostitution, have a horrible sex slavery problem, worse even than the one in the US. My general response is to legalize anything, but prostitution is too closely tied to slavery to do that easily. I'd rather it completely illegal than what Nevada or Amsterdam have.
