Most men don't won't their daughters to date motley looking rock group band members, participate in wet t-shirt contests, work as strippers, or pose nude in "big titts" magazine either. Nor do most men want their daughters marrying 80 year olds for the inheritence or doing sexual favors to move up the ladder of success. Or their sons getting the better of the elderly through life-insurance sales or selling stereos out of the back of a van or being door-to-door born-again christians trying to convince people to find God, or promoting communism, or visiting cancer wards to sell cemetary plots, or working as sankies in Sosua. None of those things are predominately honorable. That really has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
I'm not for locking people up for selling drugs, but I would not especially want my offspring specializing in the trade either. I don't see what that has to do with whether or not men trumpet making these things illegal. I don't think used car salesman or back-injury lawyer is especially honorable either. Nor do I want these things to be illegal.
The womens' organizations that vocally denounce prostitution want to make it ILLEGAL.
What is with the push in Tampa, FL to keep men a certain distance from the strippers? Or making them were plastic things over their nipples? Or make it illegal to sport a woody in a strip bar? You may not be familiar with the recent happenings down there but it has made nationwide news recently. It is essentially the same mentalilty. I guarantee it has nothing to do with honor. It is pure envy and political posturing.
Men in general are NOT the one's calling for such, except in as much as it garners them support from a certain segment of the population (the segment mentioned earlier, including their wives, girlfriends, and elderly consitutuents). Men almost universally denounce prostitution as part of political correctness while personally having a different opinion but most of the women supporting these anti-whatever issues REALLY DO feel they way they say.
Prohibition (drugs and alcohol) has always been about money and is not related to this issue.
Now my research finds that prostitution laws originated with the fall of Babylon, the spread of disease (back then, sexually transmitted diseases were untreatable and often fatal) and the general public health, as was the denouncing of eating pork and having children with your relatives. But over time, the public spin has taken on a life of its own - exploiting women, abusing children, spreading disease, unwed mothers, the breakdown of the family, etc., much as the spin given for the war on drugs - promotes crime, promotes laziness, destroys minds, makes people crazy, leads to worse things, ...
Today's advocates against prostitution are very different from the originators. So, concentrating on who it is that is vocal against prostitution TODAY, it is just as I originally said. It was an opinion without facts to back it up but now I see I was right. It is the "feminazis" as I like to call them, the religious, and governments that see it as bad publicity, as in Thailand and Costa Rica (once again, money enters the equation!). So we have two reason. Money, envy/competition. None of which are part of the "spin" used in the public basis for the arguments.
I'd like to hear how many people are against drugs and prostitution here on the forum, and their reasons why. I bet most that are against will echo the public spin: Prostitution is exploitive, abusive, hurts are children, and spreads disease. Illegal recreational drugs are addictive, unwravels society through laziness and craziness, causes brain damange, promotes crime, and leads to worse things.
Wow. None of these are the original reasons for the laws. Sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy were mostly unpreventable, and the drug laws came about because it was bad for certain businesses and an easy way to randomly lock up the riff-raff (Jazz musicians, Negroes, and Mexicans at the time).
How many young males want to see prostitution abolished world-wide, given a choice of let it go or stamp it out? How many women outside of their prime and "mature" men want it that way?
Am I right or wrong here. Are we in disagreement?
As far as "trusting" your man? What a joke. People cannot be trusted to do ANYTHING they don't believe in, based solely on a "promise" and their integrity to uphold a promise because "they promised". Are people that naive or what. I think yes.
I forget who said it, but someone here pointed out than just about any man would cheat, given ideal circumstances - fantastic opportunity (awesome babe offers herself) with little or no chance of getting caught (alone and out of the country maybe?).
That's the fact.
