Should prostitution be legalized in the US?

Should prostitution be legalized in the US?

  • Yes, across all 50 states

  • Yes, on a state by state basis

  • No, decriminalized in all 50 states

  • No, decriminalized on a state by state basis

  • No, keep the status quo


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phcitywarrior

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No one says I would be a prostitute but it's not legal and no one says I would buy a chick for the night but it's not legal lol.

I think it isn't as black and white as this. I do think its legal status in the US does deter some people who might be on the fence to provide or solicit. You hear stories of stings and that acts as a deterrence to would be participants, of course you have some people that still partake, but to say the legal status doesn't affect the activity isn't genuine.

As someone that worked in South East Asia for 10 weeks in college, I can tell you first hand that the tolerance/legality of prostitution (in combination with the economics) in places like Thailand and Cambodia attract participants from around the world, often from places that don't have legalized prostitution.
 

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Who do you think will be the most negatively impacted? Lower income/lower resource communities. They will have to fight with children who choose this as a profession out of poverty and desperation, and cultural/social misguidance. (beyond their immediate community)

People always says "the oldest job" which isn't even accurate at all, and because something is old doesn't mean it's good, and lastly, bashing people's heads in for resources in hunter gatherer times was probably a thing too, and we don't condone that.
 

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It’s a very polarizing topic. I’m almost down the middle but I lean a little more towards legalization. One of the biggest reasons is because criminalization only invites more overpolicing in low income/communities of color and oftentimes those cops might not be operating with good intentions with regards to these women. Also, by criminalizing these women you lose a potentially valuable resource in the fight against young girls being kidnapped and trafficked by providing information.

The biggest issues is pimps that exploit these women, potentially dangerous customers, and the dangers of the kidnapping/trafficking market. I think that legalizing or at least decriminalizing and focusing on the actual criminal elements would at least give a middle ground between addressing the serious problems while better regulating and building tolerance for something that for the most part is nearly impossible to stomp out.

Also, a lot of the tax revenue from this needs to go to programs for young girls to increase their education and opportunities and protect them from scumbags that might try to harm them. I think one of the best chances of eliminating prostitution is by ensuring that as many young women and girls as possible have the resources to either get out or never have the need to get in.

I’ll say that I don’t think legalization is possible or even a responsible move until there’s a greater program of assistance to lower income communities in general. The ills of this business comes from societies inequities so the less there is of that the more likely things can work out under a legal framework.
 
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It's true. Women right here in this country travel to Las Vegas to work in brothels. These places are flooded with applications from women who want to sell their bodies legally. I would imagine some of those are from women who have little to no experience in prostitution. Shyt, there are women who sell their virginity. Legalization by itself makes prostitution more attractive. This is common sense.

Why do you HL dudes think y'all are so smart, when it's obvious y'all are so dumb? I will never understand this.:dwillhuh:
 

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Lost Women will flock to it to pay for overpriced material items.

But if it was up to me, I would legalize it, but put on irreversible consequences. Once you are caught, you are forbidden to have kids and be registered, similar to sex offenders. No, they wouldn't be legally punished, but you can't have kids/adopt kids (anymore).

If they have kids and they started to sell it for extra cash, child protection services will have to step in.
 

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It's true. Women right here in this country travel to Las Vegas to work in brothels. These places are flooded with applications from women who want to sell their bodies legally. I would imagine some of those are from women who have little to no experience in prostitution. Shyt, there are women who sell their virginity. Legalization by itself makes prostitution more attractive. This is common sense.
Not only travel to vegas but girls all over europe fly to Amsterdam for the same reason.
There are no pimps but there are people who own booths & they rent the booths out in the red light district to women to display themselves
 

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Not only travel to vegas but girls all over europe fly to Amsterdam for the same reason.
There are no pimps but there are people who own booths & they rent the booths out in the red light district to women to display themselves

Germany also, they have a fully regulated legal market. It hasn’t stopped trafficking from other countries though so in a weird way it’s like legalization definitely ramped up the potential for exploitation.

Another reason I’d argue though is one the OP kinda made already. There’s endless back channels and fronts that are used to facilitate the transaction and yet none of these things are illegal. A strip club is basically an unofficial brothel in certain cases, porn is a booming industry but these women are still being paid to have sex and on camera no less. Social media is also a growing factor. Like, you can’t prevent two consenting adults from doing this because there are too many loopholes plus it just seems ridiculous that two adults consenting to sex shouldn’t be criminalized people.

It’s totally inconsistent to sell sex at every corner and in every industry and then when it comes to the actual sale of sex, which would be a natural reaction to this over saturation, it’s criminalized. Just seems ass backwards to me.
 
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bytches are already selling p*ssy...
The Instagram bytch.
The girl working the corner.
And the bytch at ur job, selling p*ssy to keep her phone on and take that girls trip to Miami.
You dont have to legalize it...
Only people that would benefit is the government.
 

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Germany also, they have a fully regulated legal market. It hasn’t stopped trafficking from other countries though so in a weird way it’s like legalization definitely ramped up the potential for exploitation.

Another reason I’d argue though is one the OP kinda made already. There’s endless back channels and fronts that are used to facilitate the transaction and yet none of these things are illegal. A strip club is basically an unofficial brothel in certain cases, porn is a booming industry but these women are still being paid to have sex and on camera no less.

It’s totally inconsistent to sell sex at every corner and industry and
then when it comes to the actual sale of sex, which would be a natural reaction to this over saturation, it’s criminalized. Just seems ass backwards to me.

This is true, however, I think full scale legalization opens the flood gates for trafficking like you said. Porn and strip clubs are already rampantly exploitative in nature. Full scale legalization is like ripping off the scab. I don't think this is an issue people are pushing for unlike say weed legalization. I think at best what the government could do is designate a portion of each state which legalizes prostitution as a "pay for play" zone similar to Nevada. But even then, things would just go underground.

Holland considers banning sex workers aged under 21 and introducing permits for all prostitutes | Daily Mail Online

Even the Netherlands is looking to reform its approach to legal prostitution.
 

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Sex between consenting adults is legal, but once money is exchanged it's a no-no? That makes no sense. I can't even imagine why it's illegal in the first place.

I think it has more to do with a society willing to accept it as a cultural norm. It's a big step to take when you think about it. It possibly means public advertising, Career Day appearances at schools (haha), then what happens if some degenerate state decides to lower the age of consent? Child prostitutes? The slippery slope argument here is very real.
 
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