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SnuffleUffleGrass
01-16-2017, 06:35 PM
Legalization would curb a lot of the unsavory things that "Moralist" people love to talk about in relation to prostitution- drugs, pimps, lack of medical care & lack of knowledge of the lives of the women.

Bahuba
01-16-2017, 10:18 PM
Yes. It is legal in many countries and does no harm. The resources used to "fight" it could be better allocated to fighting violent crime.

Luckyguy09
01-21-2017, 09:38 AM
America is so sexually repressed it is not even funny.

One can write a whole book about this topic. America indeed is a very sexually repressed country and it's something either nobody talks about, or if they do, the topic is never talked about in any seriousness. In my adult life I have never talked about sex with other Americans because it's taboo. Sex is one of the subjects you have to learn on your own because for many even your own parents don't even tell you anything especially in the southern states.

Long long time ago I remember watching The Cosby Show and one episode was about how they had to teach thier children about sex (and this was around the AIDS crisis). Instead of being direct, serious and objective Bill played the stereotypical American where they had him scared to talk about sex to his own children and he was beating around the bush and telling jokes. It's just a TV show but it still accurately showcased Americas view on sex.

Gia2608
01-21-2017, 10:11 AM
OMG. I have to try and find a clip of that. The irony. Plays a character that can't talk about sex.. IRL is a guy that can not get sex (unless drugging women).

And yes, I know. My family is very European-ish still. It was common to talk about sex with my Mom and my aunts and uncles talk about sex all the time, either with other people or in front of their kids...Usually it is in a joking way of some kind but sometimes it is not. It is hard to explain what am referring to.

It is really sad that most kids in the US are learning about sex now from watching porn. A friend of mine the other day told me that her son (5th grader) asked her what a hand job was and she was so embarrassed she told him to google it!!!

Ifyouseekamy
11-10-2017, 01:29 AM
I dont know to be honest. The selfish part of me doesn’t want sex work to be legal. As a dancer, I might lose out to sex workers. As a feminist, sex work should be decriminalized because making something illegal doesn’t make it go away (prohibition) it just makes it unregulated and dangerous.

Bahuba
11-10-2017, 03:06 AM
I don’t think the places where it is legal, like England, have a significant drop in revenue for dancers, but there are several on here that might tell us. I seem to remember several English dancers opining that it did not hurt them.

Ifyouseekamy
11-10-2017, 05:10 PM
^i hope so. Well and if sex workers don’t have to work in the club to stay safe, then guys would go to the club for entertainment and call a sex worker for sex. I don’t have first hand experience, but my friend that stripped in Nevada said that’s how it worked.

jasmine22
11-10-2017, 08:37 PM
I think the reason we are dealing with sex in stripclubs is because prostitution is illegal. If it were legalized the two would be separated bc guys would just go to a brothel or outcall for that. Stripclubs would become more like nightclubs and I think girls would put on more of a show

ZeroSugarMonster
11-11-2017, 02:25 AM
Ditto to what's said above. A lot of times stripping and prostitution are conflated by the general public. Being that both are a form of sex work, there is intersection between the two, but they are not one and the same. Unless the place is a strip-club/whore-house with management that cares for it's dancers enough to protect them against abusive customers and police, and a condom bowl and tissues to make things sanitary, I'm very much so in sex staying outside of the strip clubs, as it should. Strip clubs are supposed to be for the tease. And honestly, I don't have the "street-smarts" to work in a club where some girls are ducking-and-sucking (if you know what I mean) with hosts/management set-ups in exchange for % of profits, while the rest play by the rules and make a fraction as much.

I think legalized prostitution materializes very differently from country to country. It would definitely drive down trafficking in my opinion. I don't see how legislators don't see that.

I'm glad to see the major lawsuit going on in San Francisco right now. It is contesting the laws against prostitution as being unconstitutional. Remember, anti-prostitution laws are relatively new. New Hampshire, I believe, had a proposal to legalize prostitution a while back but it did not materialize. Now, there is the same possibility raised for DC. I think this is good. Even if the laws legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution fail to pass, a dialogue is started.

Also, remember no where in the US is prostitution legal. Nevada? I call bs. It's legal only if the woman is locked up in a whorehouse and forking 50% of her money plus expenses to a white, rich male pimp. That's not prostitution. That's pimping. And it's reflective of our patriarchal society where the white men with money, and possibly connected to law enforcement (think the large brothel outside of Las Vegas where the owner is a former member of Chicago PD with connections to the FBI) are making many a buck off of woman's labor.

I guess we'll see how all this plays out. Even though I don't partake, I'm glad to see that weed is now legal whereas it wasn't not so long ago. Hope same thing goes for prostitution.