Brothel Bus Busted in Miami - Yet Another Reason Why Prostitution Should be Legal

Brothel Bus Busted in Miami - Yet Another Reason Why Prostitution Should be Legal

in Sex and Intimacy » Censorship and Sexual Repression • 3 years ago

Saw this post on AutoBlog this morning: Brothel Bus busted in Miami, along with some great comments:

"Why don't we just make prostitution legal? Then they can be regulated and taxed. Less money trying to stop them, and more money coming in as taxes. People are going to do it either way."

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The War On terror........The war on Drugs................... The war on Pleasure. One success after the other!

Great points. These are just more examples of government waste while opressing until numbers of people to further the personal or religious "moral" ideals of one group or another.

We ran a poll about this on Ask Dan and Jennifer (Dating, Love, & Sex advice column) asking "Should We Legalize Prostitution?" and got over 4,000 votes as of now. Most people support legalizing it.

Take the Prostitution Poll yourself here:
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(Poll from Sex: Censorship and Sexual Repression - Articles, Videos, Tips, and Advice from AskDanAndJennifer.com)

It's amazing how many people support legalizing it. People are definitely doing it either way, as they have been for thousands of years.

When you criminalize something like this (which doesn't actually hurt anyone) - you create an artificial black market. There's no government oversight to ensure product safety (i.e. regular STD tests), and you have mob rule in the industry, violence and turf wars between the gangs fighting for a "distribution region", customers with no protection from the producer, workers in the industry with no safety and protection from government oversight (an actually useful function of government), and lots of people going to jail without hurting anyone.

Just look at the drug violence and the incredible numbers of people (hundreds of thousands) in jail today for NON VIOLENT OFFENSES. That means they didn't hurt anyone. These are outdated laws based on various people's religious preferences, and they oppress millions of people.

And yes, if it's legal, then in addition to the safety factor from state oversight, these activities can be taxed - instead of being a bottomless pit for wasted law enforcement resources. And there's also a responsible party if there is a product problem. You'd have a lot less drug deaths if CVS or Walgreens prescribed the safe dosage and ensured the purity and safety of the product. Not to mention drastic fall in crime, since the black market cash cow would be gone overnight. Stealing drugs would be no more profitable than stealing gummy bears.

And talk about wasted resources... Police resources are wasted looking for consenting adults exchanging money for sex!

How crazy is that? Wow, still trying to figure out what part of "to protect and to serve" that falls under. It certainly has nothing to do with protect.

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to be out there protecting people from getting mugged in bad neighborhoods, solving murder or violent assault cases, that type of thing? You know, actually protecting the population?

Yeah, it's the republican party line, but that just shows why political parties are dangerous, how they keep people from thinking for themselves because they feel they have to "stay with their party" instead of standing up for what makes sense.

Prohibiting prostitution is a failed concept, just as flawed and almost as dangerous to our civilization as the "war on drugs" or various other "war on XX" of the day where career bureaucrats looking for more power scare a large part of the population into giving them free reign to ignore the Constitution (just this once, honest, "it's for your safety" and put people in jail for the arbitrary scare of the day.

The whole idea is as ignorant as preaching "abstinence only" to our children and teenagers instead of teaching basic sex ed so they can be smart and informed and make intelligent decisions - which would actually make a difference to the spread of STDs and the teenage pregnancy rates. It's absolutely amazing how many guys and girls think safe sex means pulling out fast enough so she doesn't get pregnant! Seriously.

Your thoughts? Be sure to take the poll above...

Dan

Replies(3)

k. in cle..

Re: Brothel Bus Busted in Miami - Yet Another Reason Why Prostitution Should be Legal

3 years ago

OK, you asked for it.. my thoughts... legalize (or keep legal) sex, drugs, gambling, and guns.... OK, maybe that's just a little overboard. There does need to be regulations on things, but seriously. Why can't consenting adults do what they want? Where prostitution is legal there isn't the black market for it. In the US 1920-1933 proved that making something that adults enjoy illegal doesn't mean they won't get it and continue to enjoy it. I won't continue on all my other political view soapboxes, but I'm sure you can see what I'd have to say about that too...:rolleyes:
Anyway, like I was saying, in the areas in which prostitution is legal, and they have regulations on it, there are more happy customers. And you have a much greater chance of contracting an STD from some unregulated working girl than someone who has regular testing performed. Anyway, that's my 2 cents...

danandjen..

Re: Brothel Bus Busted in Miami - Yet Another Reason Why Prostitution Should be Legal

3 years ago

Right on. Consenting Adults should be able to do what they please as long as they don't harm others. Our main thing is government should be keeping people safe from others that would cause them harm, not keeping people safe from themselves.

That's a recipe for endless laws and a sinkhole for any kind of personal freedoms. One that throughout history has usually led to a tyrannical and oppressive government.

We're all about the state regulating all of these things like prostitution, drugs, etc. to ensure safety for everyone involved - that's actually one of our main contentions, that type of work is the intended function of government - enforcing the kind of order and safety that an individual cannot enforce for himself/herself.

For example, nail care professionals and hair stylists are closely regulated by the state. They have inspections, common standards they have to meet, and so on. That ensures their safety as well as the safety of their customers. Back markets circumvent this type of state oversight, so the exact opposite happens, under mob rule, often organized crime to some degree.

Also when you have a reputable organization that is responsible for the quality and safety of the product - for example a legal bordello or CVS / Walgreens dispensing "pharmaceuticals", and the ability to enforce oversight on that company, everyone wins.

But we believe government has no business telling you what sex toys you can use in the privacy of your own home, or what type of gay sex should be illegal, or what type of That's asinine. It's government seriously overstepping it's bounds, to push a certain group's personal or religious based agenda on others who choose - and exercise their own freedoms - to not follow those personal or religions preferences.

Dan

ed_christ..

From a person who have seen the brothels in Germany

3 years ago

Now in Germany brothels are legal and regulated. The workers (prostitutes) work one of two ways there: on the street (or in cars--I remember 40 mark strasse in Kaiserslautern just outside of Ramstein Air Force Base where I was stationed) or you go to a facility where they get private rooms to do what they do best privately. In Frankfurt alone there were floors of women ranging from high class/high price to BDSM rooms for the clientele who enjoyed this lifestyle to various ethnic backgrounds. I'm not sure how much it cost via the Euro and all, but for about 100 DM (Deutche Marks) you could have a pretty good time.

The girls had to get tested every month for STD's, they got to stay in their rooms and then on weekends or on Sunday they got to get away and be with family or have the day off. The higher end buildings had some of the nicest rooms you could imagine where older buildings could have used some sprucing up. One problem I saw on the streets is the amount of drug use not far from the red light district. For the most part the areas were a man's paradise only I never saw a woman partake in the world's oldest profession. At the Bunnyranch episode on HBO I saw one couple who did this and it was one of the hottest things I ever seen so you never know how couples would do if they both agreed to pay someone for a night of debauchery

But you see it works if regulated and imagine the revenue the governments of the world would collect for taxes and the like. I just don't the spiritual (i.e. Christian response to such a call to legalize prostitution. This is worth studying and possibly a column dealing with this subject. It may come down to each individual praying about it because it's an "I Don't Know" issue where I see how prostitutes in the Bible have been influential in God's process; then you see passages like in Proverbs chapter 5 telling us to "drink in your own well" (translation: be happy with the beauty of your wife instead of going to a temptress or prostitute). But then two of the famous prostitutes helped in wondrous ways in the Bible. Rahab to the Hebrew spies going into Jerricho and God's protection of her and her household for her help; Mary Magedalene with her devotion and help with Jesus and the Disciples.

So as you can tell this will be something to be discussed on the board and maybe (possibly) worth a good study.