Legalized Prostitution

[kcdist]

The Alberta Government has recently announced that it will enact legislation that authorizes the seizure of vehicles for those caught attempting to purchase sex.

This letter was recently published in one of our local papers. Funny and to the point:
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PROSTITUTION- Re: "Alberta ready to seize cars from johns" Feb 13

Let me get this straight. Some poor schlep who's so homely he has to give out some of his hard-earned money for sex, is now not only going to lose his reputation, he's going to lose his car, too.

I undersand prostitution is a problem, but I'm sure it's the same in every large city. People buy and sell sex. I say we legalize the sex trade. Let's have laws ensuring employee and health standards are met, sell business licences and collect taxes.

Take the sex out of criminals' hands and put it into the business sector. The city won't be an eyesore, the police will be free to deal with real criminals, and the economy will get a kick in the rear. The workers will have drug-free environments and no pimps or violence.

I say let the socially inferior, the awkward, the poor-spoken, and the downright ugly-looking pay for sex (if they have to resort to those means). For goodness sake, don't steal their cars. They've got it bad enough as it is.

Chris Lavis (published today in the Calgary Herald)
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Comments?

 

[geo]

Oldest trade in the world......

Escorts, mistresses, prostitutes...... they appear to be going after the bottom of the heap without adressing all of society's ills.

My take on it - it's just window dressing...... giving the appearance that they're doing something to satisfy one sector of the electorate.

 

[Armymedic]

We are all prudes. There is nothing wrong with legalized, regulated and gov't monitored prostitution.

 

[The_Falcon]

Technically, prostitution is legal in this country. 

 

[Sig_Des]

Technically, prostitution is legal in this country. 

It's the solicitation that's illegal

 

[Kat Stevens]

Marriage IS prostitution, just camouflaged.  "Mow the lawn or no nookie for you, Herb",  "h, what a beautiful ring, someone's getting lucky tonight".  Just variations on a theme...

 

[George Wallace]

Legalized Prostitution works in several European countries.  In Germany, the Polizei regularly patrol and check credentials.  It is mandatory that the prostitutes have Medicals every three months.  They are restricted to working in certain areas of the city, which become "Tourist sites".  Of course they are taxed.  The city has a 'well known' tourist site, and tourist dollars coming in.  Win - Win situation if implemented properly.

 

[GO!!!]

If we are going to make prostitution illegal, as this law seems to be angling for, why not clamp down on the industry the same way LE goes after drugs or smuggling?

If you want drugs off the street, do you run around grabbing every crackhead you can? Of course not, you arrest the suppliers.

Arrest every streetwalker you see, lock her up for oh, say a week or so, then make them do community service.

It never fails to amaze me that in every other illegal industry, the suppliers are the bad guys, except in prostitution, where it is the customers.

 

[kcdist]

Notwithstanding my previous opposition to the 'swinger' ruling, I am fully in favour of authorized Red Light districts.

When I was working as a police officer, we would routinely lose some female members of our team so they could work the stroll with the vice unit. One particular member was a Shania Twain lookalike, and when she dressed in her whore gear, she looked truly amazing. Great abs, legs, face......oh, if I was only single and young and attractive.....but I digress.

Anyhow, she related a story of one of her big arrests.

Young kid, 17 years old, overweight, glasses and a face full of acne. Smart and articulate though, and he worked at McDonald's to pay for his car. Kid comes up to PW (our slang for female officers), and initiates a conversation for the purposes of procuring sex. The kid was a virgin, and said his buddies at school rode him mercilessly for his status as such. A price is agreed to, and he digs into his pocket for money. He produces a handful of crumpled cash and holds it out like Oliver Twist holding up his soup bowl. The PW makes the signal, and the boy is promptly arrested by the stand-by team.

As the kid is a young offender, his parents are called down to the station. They are outraged and start yelling at the boy. He is released with an appearance notice and a court date.

What good could have possible come out of this? Poor kid was probably humiliated to the point of suicide. If he had better genes or social skills, sex, or the lack thereof, would likely have not been an issue at all. Peer pressure, coupled with the curiosity about the experience, fueled by the highly sexually charged society we live in, likely led him in his attempt to pay for sex.

What other option did he have? I still feel sorry for the kid.

I say legalize, regulate and tax.

 

[geo]

Ahh.... to be young and stupid again.
Remember visiting Amsterdam while on leave after Reforger exercises in West Germany. Out the Train station door, hang a right and down the street to do some window shopping... they were clean and government certified. Ohhh Mama!

 

[armyvern]

window shopping

Too funny Geo!! Haven't we all done this? Window shopping is the operative word though!!

 

[geo]

I will have you know that I have never had to pay for services......

Am married.... it's a lot more expensive in some respects ;(

 

[Brad Sallows]

I guess in our effort to avoid stigmatizing every element of society which occasionally strays over the line, someone forgot to include the johns.  However, I was reassured to see on the news last night that a pedophile has been located in a halfway house within rifle shot of a schoolyard.

 

[mo-litia]

It never fails to amaze me that in every other illegal industry, the suppliers are the bad guys, except in prostitution, where it is the customers.

Touche.  It's rather hypocritical of society to twist things around this way.

What other option did he have? I still feel sorry for the kid.

I say legalize, regulate and tax.

I feel bad for that kid too.  Legalization and taxation would do a lot to transform this industry.  Canada may as well deal with this issue like a mature society; prostitution is NEVER going to go away, no matter how much some people would like it to.

 

[Guy. E]

Not being able to add any more usefull information or arguments, I completely agree with Legalise, Regulate and Tax.

 

[Goober]

Legalized prostitution works very well in the States. No pimps, the girls are clean, get regular weekly tests, there is security in case they need it.

Edit: In some NV counties I mean.

 

[geo]

Hmmm.... does the French army still have their mobile brothels ?

 

[mo-litia]

Mobile brothels?

I'm in the wrong army...

 

[TCBF]

"Mobile brothels?

I'm in the wrong army..."

- You want to remuster to WHAT?

;D

Tom

 

[geo]

These houses were always marked by a blue lantern if they served officers, and by a red one if they served common soldiers.

Bordels Militaires de Campagne

would appear that France operated the brothels thru to the end of their occupation of Algeria - at which time they signed the International convention of 2 December 1949.

Oh well - party's over