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Prostitution should be made legal. It should be made legal and it should be regulated.

By regulation I mean like how it is done in the Philippines. Every week the prostitutes have you get checked for VD. If you fail your VD test, you get your license removed. This way it protects our societies health. Also, by allowing prostitution, you are adding money to our economy. By allowing prostitution, you are able to help majorily decrease PTSD in prostitutes. People get PTSD while being a prostitute because you are unable to presecute violent clients. By making prostitution legal, people are able to report such instances. It will be unlikely to occur and it protects our society.

True xd

Psh. Legalizing and regulating prostituion would help stop the exploitation of women. Because, as My Conscience said (hee, it's funny typing that phrase), it will be easier to press charges against violent clients. There will also hopefully be program that make it easier for women to move up from prostitution on to other jobs.

So, obviously, I agree with both of you on the issue.

Oh what the hell.

*Votes no on regulating prostitution*

I call Sexual discrimination on the matter!

True, regulating it would actually protect woman from the harms the industry faces today. [yes I just called whoring yourself an industry]. But the market is sexually bias. Though existance, females would dominate the market; for prostitution is a market that is femalre oriented, as such it would be unfair to declare it legitimate. Now aside from all the crap of "So? Males own every other market" or "lolsthatstoobad", it's a valid point. In almost every other industry both sexes are allowed the freedom of advancement, or at least prosperity in the respective fields. Construction work seems to hardly be an exeption as there ARE female contractors and this is a situation in which equality would mean getting paid less.... I don't think anyone would take a lower paying job, not to mention one that some find tiring, just to balance out the sexual ratio.
More to the point, prostitution would only benefit males, and as it stands now, thats not a problem as it is not a recognized industry. However, were it to be even slightly regulated is to acknowledge it as an industry, and thus sexual preferences could lead to discriminatory charges.

[posted for the sake of arguement]

If it was regulated, the fee would be the same accross the board. I don't believe men nor women would be payed more or less.

Very true. That's like saying strip clubs are sex discrimination. Obviously there are more strip bars with women aimed at men than vise-versa (or with women aimed at women/men aimed at men, especially). But if a woman wants to create a male strip bar aimed at women, she's not going to be stopped. If you want more men in that kind of industry then you just need to get more men involved in it.

And, in response to AvenirLegacy saying it would only benefit males, I don't see how that works, either. Of course female prostitutes with a male-only clientele are the norm, but there are going to be females willing to accept female clients, and males willing to accept female or male clients.

Plus, like Toga said, if it's legalized it will eventually become more accepted and things will probably even out. Maybe not completely, but moreso than now.

Obviously is a sexist market. I never said it was wrong. Just stating a view; one I believe holds merit, especially in the way you just described it.


I never said it would benefit 'anyone'. I mearly said that the market would be sexist and would require congressional involvement in the matter. Just like any other work place that is sexist.



Assumption.

You say that prostitution should stay illegal because there aren't enough male prostitutes. You also mention an argument that there aren't enough female contruction workers and call it "crap." I want to know why.

If you want to get more men involved in the industry, why don't you start?