I'm way too tired to find info about whether your statement is true or not, but even if it is, wouldn't legalizing it immediately free them? Not the children, at least, but hey, we have child labor laws anyway. That is like saying anyone who works for someone else is a slave, like if a CPA works for H&R Block instead of being independent.. that doesn't make them a slave, they're just workin for the man Kind of like in Nevada. Prostitutes work on "ranches" where they are protected & regulated, their clientele are screened, and the working conditions are much better than the seedy underground of city streets where it is illegal. They pay out a portion of their earnings to their employer, etc. It's not slavery, since they are free to come and go as they please and are fairly compensated for their work.
Lol. That person doesn't apply to me. But unfortunately otherwise for the people who make the laws. I've seen the Bunny Ranch on cable and such. Me and my hearty think they run a darn fine establishment down there. We are planning on heading there for a visit sometimes mid-June 09'.
Yeah.... when we let God govern, things get a little messy. One man's freedom is another man's sacrilege.
educate yourself on sex slaves. They are not free to go as they please, thats why they are called slaves.
I don't understand your point. I know what a sex slave is, Casey. To suggest otherwise is pretty insulting. I do not know if they are as "common" as you suggest though. But I don't really care, either, because my point is that the slavery is not a result of prostitution.
I don't think CaseyH understands his own point but He has a point .. . just a point that is incomprehensible to anyone . .. not even himself Rocket River
i believe the suggestion is that sex slave trade is particularly high in areas where prostitution is actually legal. i don't know if that's entirely correct or not...but i believe i've read some articles that support that notion.
That's feasible, but like I said.. Prostitution does not beget slavery. A lot of things develop a culture where slavery is allowed to happen (or should I say a lot of things need to be underdeveloped..) , screwin' for money ain't one of them.
It certainly fuels sex slavery....the exchange of money for sex is at the very heart of sex slavery. It's the incentive that makes it happen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071965/ Amsterdam, a city synonymous with hedonism, is perhaps best known for its legalized sex industry, in which prostitutes pay taxes and undergo regular health exams. The city’s Red Light District is a virtual Disneyland of sex — with only European Union passport holders allowed to ply the trade. But only a few miles’ drive from the city center, traditional Dutch tolerance is helping fuel the trafficking problem. In Theemsweg, a fenced-in, football field-sized parking lot built by the government for unregulated sex workers, girls sit in bus shelters — also courtesy of the government — waiting for clients. There are no EU citizens here — and the prostitutes’ countries of origin are strikingly familiar: Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic. On weekends, men looking for cheap sex wait in cars that back up for a mile. Sexual encounters, which take place right in the cars, cost $20. Smuggled into Europe Asked how she got to Theemsweg, 20-year-old Anna from Russia’s Far East said, “You don’t want to know.” Dutch police officials, speaking privately, estimate that as many as 70 percent of the prostitutes in the Netherlands are working illegally, using false documents provided by smugglers to skirt Dutch and European laws. With the women facing poor odds, activists are working overtime to try to thwart traffickers and rescue some of the thousands of sex slaves in Europe. The International Organization for Migration, backed by U.S. funding, has managed to return only 400 of the perhaps hundreds of thousands of Moldovan women victimized by the sex trade. Activists are beating a path to rural areas to educate young girls about the dangers of the trade.
The exchange of money for sex (to the provider) is at the very OPPOSITE of sex slavery. Slavery results from things like lack of police oversight, labor laws, a judicial system, regulatory bodies, etc. It does not result from prostitution any more than my freaking working at McDonalds creates slavery.
it does not work this way...not in the sex slave trade. slavery exists because there is a profit motive. if there weren't money to be made from it, it would not happen. there is a sharp distinction between the manager at mcdonald's and a trader in sex slaves.
Any business exists because there is a profit motive. The distinction between my boss at mcdonalds and the sex slave pimp is in the place where the mcdonalds is, there is an entire system set up to protect the people working underneath that person to make sure they are safe, fairly compensated, not abused, and completely there under their free will. Sorry MM, but you are dead wrong on this. Pinning a giant overarching cultural and societal characteristic like slavery on prostitution makes no sense whatsoever. Using such logic, we should ban cotton fields in America, since the profit motive to pick them caused slavery.
The articles I've read claim that the sex slave trade is common where prositution is common, legal or illegal. Whichever country banned pimps and madames (I looked it up, it's Norway) has had some success reducing the sex slave trade. Typically, though, countries that legalize prostitution but regulate it have all the same problems that come with illegal prostitution, but they get to keep it off the streets and out of view of the people.
Slavery has nothing to do with pay or lack thereof. It has everything to do with lack of freedom. And in brothels everywhere in the world are women (and men, I suppose) who are not free to leave.
And that is not caused by prostitution, but rather by the laws which govern the trade, business, and people who conduct it. I've mentioned free will plenty of times in this argument, its the center piece of my point... Anyway, I'm done talking about this until someone can prove to me empirically that prostitution begets slavery.
Prostitution is legal in New Zealand. It seems to work ok, though I don't have any first...hand...knowledge.
