Unfortunately, there is much less political upside than the downside with the issue. While I suspect a majority really wouldn't care what two consenting adults do in private, a politician would take a ton of heat for proposing to rectify the problem. Unless some crusader comes along to stand up to the heat and get it on the ballot, I fear that things will remain the same legally.
Here is hoping that some crusader will appear.
was the desire for some involved to *want* it to be illegal. No one wants to get busted but sometimes it does feel like an exciting spy thriller. I've had some extended two-call systems feel kinda cloak and dagger like.
Regardless, I would prefer it to be legal. But it would be challenging to openly support it. It seems about as legitimate as stoners petitioning for the legalization of marijuana. I'm afraid my arguments about protecting women's rights, though sincere and a partial driver, would still be seen as somewhat disingenuous. Until it is legal, I believe its going to be hard for most men to openly support reform. I think that women will have need to lead with men supporting financially (many only anonymously).
Let's legalize prostitution by 2010! We could give fund contributions as tips. I nominate netmichelle to lead us to the promised land!!
-b
If paid sex were legal, unless there's inelastic demand, wouldn't that lower the cost of it? Is that really what you providers want.
BTW, original posters logic would lead to many w2ierd conclusions. For example:
Getting paid is legal
Revealing informtion that is embarassing or harmful to another is (usually) legal.....so.....
Blackmail is (usually) legal
Unfortunately, there is much less political upside than the downside with the issue. While I suspect a majority really wouldn't care what two consenting adults do in private, a politician would take a ton of heat for proposing to rectify the problem. Unless some crusader comes along to stand up to the heat and get it on the ballot, I fear that things will remain the same legally.
Here is hoping that some crusader will appear.
This is not an offer of prostitution. Money exchanged is intended for companionship only and modeling services. Anything else that may or may not occur is a matter of personal choice between two consenting adults of legal age and is not contracted for, nor is it requested to be contracted for in any manner. Contacting me constitutes acceptance of these terms.
I have a way longer one on my site.
I would think that a disclaimer is meaningless when LE is in the room with you and has started a session with you. If he has put an envelope on the table and after some small talk, you start to undress, LE will be arresting for prostitution. I read somewhere that judges consider the implied acceptance of money and shedding of clothes as being the act of prostitution even if the lady doesn't touch the envelope. Logic being "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck" kind of logic. I know that one agency in New York City has the ladies not accept a dime until the guy has been given a quick blowjob in order to prove that he is not LE. So for those legal minds out there, is the disclaimer worth the webspace?
Especially in a capitalist society? Some of it is that we have a block of purportedly monogamous housewives, who are too proud to identify with prostitutes, and too threatened by them. Most of it is religious, and the Christian religions have an influence beyond their faithful.
I was a little disturbed that your link did not cite the negative influence the Bible really has. He talks about the kind things Jesus did, when Jeremiah, Hosea, and Ezekial rail on prostitutes for pages at a time, most of the rants attributed to God himself. For the new testament, never forget the "Whore of Babylon" in Revelations, the image was meant to have the same effect on its reader as Willy Horton did in a presidential campaign.
Yes, Jesus was kind to prostitutes. In Catholic school, I was taught he had a knack for spotting the "good" prostitutes, the diamonds in the sewage, as it were. Despise prostitutes, we were taught, but see these few as exceptions.
Actually, I think it's quite likely that Jesus was doing Mary Magdalen.
/Zin
and it never has. It seems to me that we need a politician to step up and talk some real truth. The only thing that legislating morality does, is create criminals, and cost a fortune in monies spent to try (unsuccesfully) to stop it. For years gambling was illegal in most communities, now a huge number are building their own casinos, and how many states are running numbers? It makes more sense to legalize, liscense, and control these vices to make them as safe as possible to the general populace, plus the community saves money in police inforcement, and actually has additional revenue that they can use for something useful, like improving public schools. This goes not only for prosttitution, but for many forms of drug use. If alcohol is legal, why isn't marijuana? Or coke for that matter? Same idea, just different means. If we should have learned anything from prohibition it is that criminalization of these things only make very rich criminals and leads to corruption of public officals. It is circular in its destructive cycle due to the very fact that it is an illegal activity, because some feel that it is immoral. My opinion.
I will probably not live to see any of the above de-criminalized in this country.