This is only slightly related to class discussion by the thread of pornography, but I had a conversation with someone about it the other day and figured I'd blog about it. So.. Prostitution is illegal because our government has decided that people should not be allowed to sell sex for money. However, following their logic, I fail to understand why pornography is not illegal. Are the people in the videos being paid? Yes. What is their job? To have sex. Whether there is a camera involved or not, or whether the individual is being paid to have sex with someone else or with the person giving them the money, he or she is still being paid for sex. If youre going to outlaw one, why not both? By the same mentality, if youre going to allow one, why not the other?
In my own view, I think prostitution should become a legalized and regulated official industry and all else should remain illegal (random hoes trying to make a buck for their pimp). If prostitution were legal, I'm sure it would diminish the underground venerial disease-ridden prostitute-on-the-street-corner business that is in effect today. Why would anyone choose to go to an unregulated hooker when they could go somewhere that is legal and has regulated standards? Not to mention the number of jobs it would create.
Q: This proposal might be a little "out there"... what do you think about it? Should prostitution be legal? or is this suggestion completely out of line?
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