Gee sorry for you that your freedoms are being eroded by a duly elected government! Too bad so sad. that gives you the right to an opinion here and you can exercise it by taking your business elsewhere.
there is more then just your opinion here -others have the right to one as well.I respect your stand but do not agree with it. But don't throw around accusations, it only shows where you are coming from.
As I have said before in other posts, The primary opponents of prostitution are typically women not in their reproductive prime who are threatened by the idea that older men want to have sex with young women who are willing to sell it.
You identify yourself as female - I bet good money that you are not in your prime reproductive years 17 - 25...probably a good bit older.
1. Prostitution can not be controlled. In New York for example it is illegal. Yet it thrives online, Craiglist, ethnic enclaves - Chinatown, blogs, alternative magazines, and underground - where often organized crime coalesces to control it. The girls are then controlled by cartels, standards for safety and health are hard to come by because everything is driven underground. These cartels are typicall protected by certain politicians and cops on the payroll - Corruption.
2. What you see as other countries controlling prostitution is the only the appearance of control... certain Nordic countries.
Most of the prostitution happens informally in bars, hotel lounges, clubs, online, etc. In places where it is really actually controlled, are countries that are full blown (usually religious) police states: Saudi Arabia, Iran. No only way to control sex after all is to have a full blown police state. So the question is not whether it can be controlled or not, but at what cost ...for what ends ??.
3. I didn't deny that prostitution is a dangerous business. I argue that girls themselves are probably better suited at protecting themselves than any bureaucrat or corrupt Dominican cop. The girls have developed their own security apparatus and with experience develop a feel for who can be dangerous or not.
I have heard if guys being ripped off, but that number is tiny compared to the number of guys who have had positive
experiences.
4. "Wages need to be set": wait...you want a government bureaucrat or politicians who is paid no doubt by taxing productive businesses and people to determine a wage for a prostitute ??? So you want to tax a prostitutes wages to pay a bureaucrat in order to tell her what her wages should be ....as if she doesn't have a good idea of what she wants for allowing some guy access to her body ?? Sounds tyrannical to me. (Sounds both communist and tyrannical - communists are always tyrants)
5. AIDS: I am sure there are infected girls and johns too. As I said, the best people to deal with those risks are the participants themselves. Condoms ??? AIDS exists everywhere on the planet. Its lowest incidence I think is in Cuba ......in part because Cuba is a police state. Other than imposing a police state, the only way to deal with that is Condoms, awareness, and individual responsibility.
6. You are right, you do not have the right to be molested. But who or what molests you ? the girls, the johns, the police, OR the idea that guys are purchasing sex from young hot girls. In any event, the solution you propose is overkill ...no ??
I am not calling you names. I am calling you by the name that the actions you support amount to:
-Government control of sumptuary activity (which all of human history shows cannot be )
-Wage control determined by parties other than the contracting parties
-Supporting arbitrary government power ....even over the girls themselves ...as if you know better the risks and rewards of their activity
-Using your own personal disgust with prostitution as an excuse and tax and regulate everyone else and transfer the funds and authority to politicians in order to use the power of the state to regulate it ...mainly because you find it distasteful.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck . ...its probably a duck. You sound like a communist tyrant. I don't know for a fact if you are, but that what it sounds like.
