Just wondering what ya'll think about it. (Not saying that anyone on here would ever do anything like that, of course)
Just wondering what ya'll think about it. (Not saying that anyone on here would ever do anything like that, of course)
Last edited by Blackstone; 03-24-2008 at 07:31 PM.





It's legalized here. They pay taxes, have worker's rights, control the prices... it's pretty freaking economic.
Plus my hookerfriend has the coolest fridge ever. Yes, I'm back on that.
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Um, they're people so they're all different? You need a license so you need to at least be a resident legally in the country. My friend, specifically, is going to school for law while being a burlesque dancer who only does a little bit of drugs maybe once a month to stay awake through a shift and that's it.
The working conditions are fabulous. Either you're signed on to do incall/outcall legally with a secretary and everything or you work in a brothel. The brothels are classy and have leather couches and fluffy beds.
They get paid about $300 an hour in the brothels. About $400 an hour outside. Not a lot of pay, but they get a lot of clients, so tend to be booked out.
Hookers make more than me at the end of the week, but I make more hourly.
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it's not legal in all of australia.
for that matter, it is legal or decriminalised in parts of america.
this is a silly question to ask a forum of people who are mostly, but not exclusively american.



In a 12 trillion or whatever the size of the US economy is I doubt prostitution would make much of a difference. I kind of like other industrialized country's approach. They've given up and instead try to reduce the harm.





I honestly don't know whether it should be legalized or decriminalized. I'm in favour of whatever regime will recognize prostitution as a legitimate and socially acceptable activity between consenting adults.
Does divorce make economic sense?




what kind of fridge?
Economically, no it doesn't make sense to legalize prostitution. The money they get from fines and arrests is considerably more than they would get with taxes.
That's just an educated guess though. I can't cite any facts.
I think prostitution should be legal.... but I'm a feminist (No, feminist here does not mean a man-hating bitch, like the word now suddenly implies... just the crazy notion that women are people!)and I think that a woman should be allowed to do whatever she wants with her body including selling sex. If it were legal, it'd be a shitload safer for the girls involved too.
But we live in a society that stemmed from the Puritans a people so uptight that the British told them to get the fuck out. (According to Robin Williams)



A couple of years ago I did an organised tour of the Amsterdam red light district. No - not in a pervy way. It was very interesting.
The area has been where it is for over 700 years now - and has been legal there almost all that time. The girls have shifts, pay taxes, are members of a union and pay rents in their window - or whatever it was called. It all seemed very organised, very safe for both client and worker and very sensible.
I'm not going to try and comment on the morals or political aspects of it - but it did seem to be quite logical and effective.





But the cops cost money and the busts cost money and the fines? Not so much really.
It's definitely more economical to tax the shit out of the hooker, the brothel, the property as a business... you can fucking tax everything. You can make them (the best you can) keep track of the numbers and get some pretty decent ($200,000 per year?) from each and every brothel out there. Not counting the hookers!
Look like a woman
Think like a man
Act like a lady
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- My Great Grandmother Bessie's Recipe for Success
Cops cost a lot of money. And they're a pretty shitty source of prostitution busts. A recent economic analysis of Chicago street prostitution found a couple of interesting things: Cops were far more likely to get an extorted "freebie" out of a hooker than arrest one. Also, hookers with pimps did better than those without.
http://economics.uchicago.edu/pdf/Prostitution%205.pdf
The question, as far as I see it up, lines up like this:
Is the "damage" done by prostitution greater than the benefit plus the cost of enforcement? I don't think so, but, I guess that depends on how much "damage" is being done by street prostitution.





Yeah... America is too pseudo-Christian using it's 'morals' to swing a vote. Which is ironic, considering how America was founded. FREEDOM OF RELIGION...only..make sure it's just my religion. Nobody elses. FREEDOM FOR ME. JUST ME.
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Work like a dog
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Originally Posted by Mia M





Legalize it but don't regulate or tax it. That's my position on things that are between consenting adults.
We frown when stick up kids rob hookers, why let the state do it?
For every cop that is on a vice squad busting hookers, there is one less cop patrolling for violent crime.





In theory it shouldn't. In practice, it is an easy target for a 'sin tax' ... which would be very salable to voters on the same basis as alcohol / tobacco taxes.I don't really understand why prostitution should be taxed more than any other business venture?
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