30th March 2004, 5:14 PM
I don't buy the "you-want-to-legalize-so-you-want-to-do-it" idea. I'm all for drug legalization, yet I'm doubtless cleaner than most drug-law proponents.
Legalization would a) get the money out of the hands of pimps and crime lords, and into the hands of the women themselves and b) allow for better screening and regulation (for diseases like HIV). Plus, with prostitutes being able to create unions and set their own rules (mandatory condoms, for example), situations like the one you mention (nine kids and no way to care for them) could be avoided.
And EdenMaster, buddy, sex is whatever you want it to be. If you want it to be an act of love and procreation, knock yourself out- but if somebody else wants it to be an act of getting off for fifty bucks, you have no say in that.
Legalization would a) get the money out of the hands of pimps and crime lords, and into the hands of the women themselves and b) allow for better screening and regulation (for diseases like HIV). Plus, with prostitutes being able to create unions and set their own rules (mandatory condoms, for example), situations like the one you mention (nine kids and no way to care for them) could be avoided.
And EdenMaster, buddy, sex is whatever you want it to be. If you want it to be an act of love and procreation, knock yourself out- but if somebody else wants it to be an act of getting off for fifty bucks, you have no say in that.