I've been saying we should do that over here in the states for some time.

Brothels with government watchful eyes would be safer for all involved, and would be -quite- the lucrative industry, especially seeing as the economy is in the dumps right now.....

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Government-sponsored prostitution. Cause the government already screws you anyways, why not make it literally?

exactly!

And why not? Vegas allows it to a degree....

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I'm of the opinion that there are no convincing arguments for prostitution being illegal at all. Period.

George Carlin put it wonderfully: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? Why is it illegal to sell something it's perfectly legal to give away!?"

I'm just gonna 2nd this

..and I'll add a third right here.

Fourth...

What this guy said.

I think this is a good idea, not only would it create a safe zone for everyone involved but it would also give the girls a long diserved sence of legitimacy and make them acountable for their doings (like the porn indestry) They can see doctors about problems without embarrasment, and most important get the pimps out of the picture. When my freind lived up norht in Huntsville he had a girl come over, and up there they make sure there is always one extra girl watching the others, which i thought was interesting.

When i was in china i thought it was also interesting as a white guy they expect you to have money and you can go anywere without being offerd sex for extra cash. All the girls were always managed by den mothers, one of whom had a knife strapped to her thigh, which i thought was kinda hot.

I'd say legalize it, as well.

Hell yeah, anything to make it safer for them as long as there's strict guidelines about how the houses are run.

Brothels are legal in Nevada, but under very tight regulations. All the servants need to be tested regularly and are only allowed to work at set time intervals (but they can try to make all the money they want). I think the houses are inspected too, and the business incomes are under tight scrutiny from the state and federal treasuries, to make sure they aren't making money off of things like drugs. Everything is clean and healthy and most of them offer a wide variety of women (and men) with various kinks to suit all kinds of suitors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosti.....tion_in_Nevada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o.....hels_in_Nevada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlite_BunnyRanch

Personally, I agree. =) Although, this brings to mind another interesting thought. Did any of you know that in some states, it's illegal to do certain positions? For example, where I live, it's illegal to do ANY position except missionary. Blow jobs? ILLEGAL! Doggy style? ILLEGAL! Reverse cowgirl? ILLEGAL! ANY position in the Kama Sutra?? (I've not read it so I dunno if missionary is in it) ILLEGAL!!!!! In other words, if some random peeping tom catches you and has evidence that you did any of those positions, BY LAW, you can be prosecuted and charged with criminal sexual conduct. Obviously, cases like that would NEVER hold up in court unless of course the judge presiding was some bible thumping super nun...and I'd HATE to be the idiot who tried to put this through court because honestly, what kind of evidence could you possibly possess beyond video or photos, which would be unauthorized by the defendants themselves, thus leaving the accuser WIDE open for being sued and prosecuted.

Anyway, yay brothels! XD

1) I love how us dudes call wives, "The wife" XD

2) Prostitution should be illegal completely. If women want to have sex for money, they should be in porn.

Well at that right, isn't porn technically prostitution as well? People ARE getting paid to have sex. The only difference is that it's being filmed and these people obviously have no problem showing it. haha Hell, there's an adult film award ceremony held every year!

True, porn is legal prostitution but I'd find it much more tasteful to do porn than to do it on the street and raise the likelihood of getting beaten, raped, or killed. Plus, with legal prostitution the women can work inside where it's warm instead of the cold on those winter nights and they get health insurance. Pimps don't pay for health insurance.

ohhhhhhhh okay see that's where my argument with you came in. you made it seem like you wanted to OUTRIGHT kill prostitution. lol My mistake there. And I do agree with you that STREET prostitution should remain illegal.

No harm done =^_^= Personally I think that there are better ways for women to earn money than having sex for it but if the decision has been made to have sex for money then I feel the best way to do it is in a regulated, safer environment. Porn and street prostitution is like the difference between Playboy and Hustler: both showcase women naked but Playboy is much more classy and elegant and is much more respected than Hustler.

A fine point indeed =) And of course there are better ways for women to make money. However, the way I see it, America is supposed to be a place where you can "follow your dreams" and possibly even get paid for them. In other words, if said women enjoy having sex, are good at it, and don't have a problem with random encounters, I say let 'em. =D That's just like me wanting to get paid for my artwork which is FINALLY happening after 6+ years of trying...even though it's not a full profession yet...I'm good at it, I enjoy it, and I don't mind the random ideas that get thrown at me for arts. XD And hell, while I'm ranting, why not take into consideration all of the other jobs in existence today. Every single worker is a whore in one way or another. Be it that they're whoring their words for sales, or whoring their cooking abilities to satisfy hungry patrons......*shifty glance* Ooops...kinda off topic now I suppose. I'm more justifying the original point of legalizing prostitution than I am arguing with anyone just fyi XD

It's kind of hard to tell if a woman is good at sex because us guys are going to cum regardless. We could screw a corpse and we'd still cum so is the corpse any good? Horrible comparison I know but...

Congratulations on being paid to do your art. I don't think that will happen to me anytime in the near future. And btw, sometimes off topic topics are more fun than the original topics ;P

Oh pishaw. you keep working at it and someone will buy. Do what I did, get a tablet and photoshop cs3 extended. ^^ Went from my poorly done scans (my scanner is crap) to what I've got going on now =D

And true, we WOULD cum regardless. BUT, there are women who know how to do specific things better than other women.

I plan on getting a tablet after I become more proficient with colored pencils. And yes, some women do things better than others but that's anyone really.

right on =)
and true enough

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Technically porn is not prostitution because the guy or guys get paid too,prostitution is one party paying for the service of sex. In porn all parties are payed, nobody not even the guy buying the DVD is getting a free ride.

By definition sex for money is prostitution even though the dudes get paid as well.

But they are not paying for the sex, they are being paid to have sex. No money changes hands between the actors if porn was considered prostitution by any definition then it simply would not exist. Prostitution is when a person pays another person to have sex with them, money for a service. Even though the porn actors get paid they dont pay each other, that is the loop hole and that is why it is not prostitution, its sex exploitation.

Prostitution isn't about who is paying for the sex, but it's about having sex with the intent of being paid for it. If the women and men were not paid for their sexual services then they wouldn't do it at all.

Really it is, at least as far as the law sees it o.0 Definitions aside your argument is groundless, if porn was seen as prostitution it would only exist in places that leagalize prostitution, seeing is how porn can be found at your local video store with out the cops busting them the case is closed. Porn is not considered any form of prostitution.

Porn isn't seen as prostitution because it is seen as a business. I multi-billion dollar industry. It's like a someone that commits a murder but is not convicted due to a technicality.

And prostitution is one of the oldest business' in the world, how big a business porn is is irrelevant, now your just grasping at straws. I have already explained the technicality to you. Look you can go onto wiki or any other mass information encyclopedia and type in prostitution and then look at what is NOT considered prostitution, and if that does not satisfy you or if your own legal system doesnt satisfy you then that is on you. But this conversation is over i am to old to be having a pissing contest with someone with an opinion.

I'm sorry that you feel as though this is a "pissing" contest and you don't want to converse about this further. I see it as nothing more than us happening to have a difference of opinion on a controversial topic. Though I enjoy interesting conversational topics such as this I respect that you don't wish to continue in this one. You needn't respond to this. Prostitution isn't seen as a business because it's done out in the streets. Much as I believe that pharmaceutical companies are the biggest drug dealers in the world but they don't receive the same level of scrutiny that drug dealers on the streets get. They too are a mulit-billion dollar business but their drugs cause deadly addictions just as the street level dealers that sell crack, herion and ecstacy.

The laws against prostitution as have been noted have no real foundation other than to enforce religious bans on extra-marital sex on those who don't hold those same beliefs and they take something you can give away free and make it illegal to charge for. They also are set up to punish the men, NOT the women and tend to end up being just ways of bringing in extra money for the police since the women are quickly released but the men suffer and in some states even end up sexual offender registries. It should be legal and for those that want to set up brothels I say go for it with regular medical coverage and protection for everyone involved.

Prostitution is legal with similar restrictions here in New Zealand too. I visited a brothel once (it hadn't commenced operation at that point) and got to know all about how brothels function and the welfare of the girls from the proprietor; it's surprisingly respectable.

Totally agree, though with a few thoughts. For the most part, the women working from their homes or fixed locations are freelancing or associated to an agency that helps book their calls and manages, sometimes provides a central location for the women to work at, in exchange for some portion of their fee. That, I think, is fine and should be legal. If someone is forcing that woman into sex work, though, that person should be hit with serious penalties. Women who are working on the street should be encouraged to get off the street, as it's mostly them who are working for drugs. Legalized prostitution needs to include registration and regular medical checks. It has to be regulated to ensure that pimps aren't running the show, and then I'm all for it.

The main reason I see keeping prostitution illegal in most places, is that sex becomes a business transaction. While that is perfect for alot of people, it makes things complicated if the business transaction goes bad for any reason. I dont think the laws are able to cope with the ability to fix matters like that.

In all due honesty, I don't see much of the US as particularly ready for it, and it's really putting the chicken before the egg right now. Americans in positions of control and influence of the nations wealth still hold a great deal of power and influence in the country, and for the most part have for quite some time long voiced against any and all attempts to have the US adopt too many policies that can be seen as socialist. To say nothing of the religious organizations and women advocacy groups across the country who would feel both offended and threatened by such a daring move.

Before this nation would be ready to engage legalizing prostitution, It would have to remove political and religious interference from public, private, and parochial schools. Engage the narcotics problem in the US in a way that undermines the dramatic profitability for the cartels involved that comes from narcotics being illegal. Stop increasing taxes on legal addictive substances, which only fuels the black market. Engage matters related to dysfunctional families. And that's really just the tip of the iceberg here.

However, being as we have 50 states in the US, the problems I've highlighted above may have varied degrees of severity in any given state, and it would be far easier to push for legalizing prostitution on a state by state basis to provide research towards national legalization. I agree with the point you shared about Vancouver prostitutes not feeling comfortable going into a strangers home, anything can happen and prostitutes as history has gone to show, are regularly preyed upon by murderers. However, with Vancouver's situation that keeps brothels themselves illegal, it makes it easier for law enforcement agencies to identify those who are involved in human trafficking, which for many countries with large international populations is a serious and growing concern.

sure.. I mean if you think about it.. Prostitution is the BEST way to EMPOWER women

I forgot it was illegal everywhere else in the states (being from Nevada). Brain fart.