Should prostitution be legalized in the US?

[phcitywarrior]

I was looking at the OnlyFans thread in the TLR about a chick netting like 30K from simply modeling semi-nude pics.

A lot of hip-hop/RnB songs targeted at young women in our communities have similar themes of women using their bodies for material gain. Sugaring is becoming more open and sites like OnlyFans have given many people (men and women, but mostly women) the platform to sell their "e-body" for funds. CashApp and Venmo have brought immense convenience to how these transactions are now processed.

At this junction, I think it begs the question: Should prostitution be legalized in the US? Why or why not?

Hoping we can get a pretty good debate on this.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Would people have to pay Hoe Healthcare Tax? Or donate to nonprofit whoreganizations?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Yes, it is a victimless crime. As the saying goes, 'You gotta let a how be a hoe.'

 

[phcitywarrior]

Yes, it is a victimless crime. As the saying goes, 'You gotta let a how be a hoe.'

I do think it’s victimless but I think it would actually increase the flow of human traffickers since there’s now a legal market. You see the same thing in Thailand. Traffickers snatch girls from the countryside and send the down to Bangkok where there’s a tolerated market.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I do think it’s victimless but I think it would actually increase the flow of human traffickers since there’s now a legal market. You see the same thing in Thailand. Traffickers snatch girls from the countryside and send the down to Bangkok where there’s a tolerated market.

Thanks, you are right. I didn't think of that.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

1. What's the difference between decriminalize and legalization?
2. Prostitution and drugs shouldn't be jailable offenses. For the buyer and the seller.

 

[phcitywarrior]

1. What's the difference between decriminalize and legalization?
2. Prostitution and drugs shouldn't be jailable offenses. For the buyer and the seller.

1. Decriminalization is essentially lessening the penalty for an offence. So instead of getting criminally punished for an offence you get like a ticket. So in Maryland, where weed is decriminalized, if a cop sees you smoking weed then they'd just hit you with a fine instead of arresting you. Legalization means it's fully legal and regulated. So in the same way you can pull up to the liquor store and buy beer, you could pull up to a dispensary and buy weed.

2. Drugs i'm not sure on. By saying a drug like coke is legal, the government is inherently giving it a pass to be consumed in society in en mass. I think there has to be certain level of restraint in society if not it crumbles in its indulgence a la Ancient Greece. For prostitution, I think it sets a dangerous precedent for women. I have younger sisters so this hits closer to home for me. I wouldn't want them in a society where she believes her "get out jail free" card is her lying on her back. I think this is where we're going with the music and culture.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Legalize it fully

 

[phcitywarrior]

Legalize it fully

Why do you say so breh?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

1. Decriminalization is essentially lessening the penalty for an offence. So instead of getting criminally punished for an offence you get like a ticket. So in Maryland, where weed is decriminalized, if a cop sees you smoking weed then they'd just hit you with a fine instead of arresting you. Legalization means it's fully legal and regulated. So in the same way you can pull up to the liquor store and buy beer, you could pull up to a dispensary and buy weed.

2. Drugs i'm not sure on. By saying a drug like coke is legal, the government is inherently giving it a pass to be consumed in society in en mass. I think there has to be certain level of restraint in society if not it crumbles in its indulgence a la Ancient Greece. For prostitution, I think it sets a dangerous precedent for women. I have younger sisters so this hits closer to home for me. I wouldn't want them in a society where she believes her "get out jail free" card is her lying on her back. I think this is where we're going with the music and culture.

1. If Ferguson has taught us anything, then we should definitely legalize it. If decriminalization is as you say, then all that's gonna happen is being fined until you go to jail.
2. I'm going by Portugal's example of drug legalization. I think it could work. Plus, violence in a lot of countries would go down because of it. I hear what you're saying about the prostitution thing. But my understanding is that legalizing prostitution would be safer for those involved and lessen trafficking and exploitation.

 

[greenvale]

Legalize it... people exchange money for just about everything else and it's fine.. hell it hasn't been a problem in Nevada

 

[mbewane]

The thing is that prostitution is gonna happen no matter what. There's a reason it's called the oldest job on Earth. If you legalize it, you can now control it much better, get those women (and men) social security, physical security and whatnot. Also bring in taxes. Obviously just as every other business you'll have shady business happening, but the bulk of it will be happening within a system that can try to look out for the well-being of the prostitutes.

As for setting a precedent for younger women, that will always be there. Whether it's women being groomed (by their own families) to get a "good marriage" or just seeing that sex sells in movies, music industry, etc (always has been the case too), once they hit 16-18 years old they know they have that sexual power. Whether they decide to capitalize on it or not depends on how they were brought up, their own choices, etc. But they will always have that option whether prostitution is legal or not, and regardless of the cultural atmosphere. It will just take different forms and be more or less explicit.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

the pro-legalization camp argues that by legalizing and regulating commercial sex exchanges, sex trafficking would decrease exponentially and be replaced by the legal market. They believe that men who engage in commercial sex consumerism would never do so with a victim of sex trafficking if given the opportunity to patronize a legal, regulated brothel.

However, the reality is more complex. Research suggests that legalization would increase the incidence of sex trafficking, and law enforcement officials have no doubt that it would hamper trafficking investigations.

In 2012, researchers in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom examined the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows around the world. The data were used to test two competing theories on the effect of legalization: scale and substitution. The scale effect posits that legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market, which increases trafficking, while the substitution effect contends that legalized prostitution would reduce the demand for trafficked women because legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. The data from this study suggest that the scale effect dominates the substitution effect - that is, areas with legalized prostitution experience larger reported incidence of trafficking inflows.

In addition to empirical data on the increase of sex trafficking in areas with legalized prostitution, from a law enforcement perspective legalization would seriously inhibit the ability of police to combat trafficking, rescue victims and arrest offenders. Rescued women are fearful of law enforcement and it is difficult to get them to fully cooperate and self-identify as victims. Though they aren't caged or bound in chains, these women can't walk away. Where would they go? There are few resources available for sex trafficking survivors, and victims often are led to believe their relatives overseas would be in jeopardy if they were to run away or cooperate with police.

 

[killacal]

Women will never allow it

You're asking them to give up their only power

But what an interesting country this would be men would probably hop back into science and engineering... the advancements that would be possible since the stifling of intelligence following the sexual revolution

Where's my flying car Wallace


Legalize it

 

[Pressure]

A lot of y'alls girls are probably selling p*ssy already or have in the past.