I'm sure many would like to see the hobby legalized. After all, what two or more consenting adults do in private is there own damn business. The problem I see with legalization is the involvement of a government bureaucracy. I can just imagine the myriad of paper work that would be required for all involved. And who can leave out the bureaucrat. I'm sure these selfless public servants would never want a free sample before giving their governmental stamp of approval. Remember the creed of the bureaucrat: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

thought that if something was NOT criminal then it was legal.  

So now when something is legal its regulated?  Do we have four or more types of activities?

Criminal
Non Criminal / Unregulated
Legal / Unregulated
Legal / Regulated

Actually only 3,
there are activities that are illegal, a Law specifically states what the activities that are illegal are has been written by government.

then there are activities that have laws specifically stating they are legal only in said circumstances Legalization, made legal by laws which usually also regulate the activity.

Third decriminalization, remove existing laws making it illegal without writing new laws making it legal only under the rule of the law. most of our personal activities fall in this category no government rule is needed to make them legal or illegal. We don't need a law to make any kind of sex legal, we just need to get the government out of our business making certain kinds of sex illegal, unless it truly hurts a portion of the population like rape, or underage sex by adults. The anti traffickers would be better served working on laws to go after any kind of trafficking regardless of activity and leave the sex issue out of it altogether.

the laws against P4P. Those who do objectionable things while hobbying surely can be regulated for those actions in and of themselves.

most proposals for legalization call for various regulations, i.e. id cards, med checkups, sometimes eros zones etc, where as decriminalization proposals say just leave the occupation alone and let people have sex for pay with so strings attached. This is not  new concept but applies to bringing an illegal activity into being a legal activity. When prohibition was lifted a series of laws and regulations were attached to protect the public and tax the product. The state always likes to attach regulations and taxes. The concept of freedom is to be unbound. The interests of society bring questions of safety and protection into the discussion. Different pokes for different folks....

People should go to jail over this, eh?

You know who agrees with you? Pimps and traffickers.


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