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[BiggieG75]

Decriminalizing prostitution: An idea whose time has come?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...uie-story.html

At some point, it needs to be tried in a large city like Chi-Town or NYC or LA where progressives can make it a reality and start turning public opinion like it was turned for legalizing pot.

Very few people in non Bible Belt areas would be opposed to it as long as minimum age of both providers and clients is 21 and written consent is obtained and kept on file.

[Ron M]

Let's hope, because it will bring some new, better talent and the prices will go down, as well, due to real competition.

With taxes, licensing fees, and other fees, legal prostitution will be more expensive. I doubt indies and massage parlors will go away.

Marijuana black market is thriving in the legal Marijuana era.

[Walker333]

I'll bet Prostitution is being considered for legalisation. Most likely it's not the Cash Cow Marijuana is. But it's possibly decent enough for taxation revenue.

Let's hope, because it will bring some new, better talent and the prices will go down, as well, due to real competition.

[Ron M]

I'll bet Prostitution is being considered for legalisation. Most likely it's not the Cash Cow Marijuana is. But it's possibly decent enough for taxation revenue.

[Walker333]

Decriminalizing prostitution: An idea whose time has come?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...uie-story.html

Those who decide do not anticipate a big increase in revenue, unlike with pot. Moreover, there is an army of watch dogs. Jealous, greedy wives. How can a prosperous politician, good hubby' and daddy explain at how that he voted for permission to purchase a pussy.

[Fit312]

Decriminalizing prostitution: An idea whose time has come?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...uie-story.html

He's the house libertarian, so not a big ideological breakthrough.

[Satriani]

Decriminalizing prostitution: An idea whose time has come?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/colum...uie-story.html

[ApplePiePussy]

There's a lot of grey areas on both sides of the argument.



On our side of things, we do need to stop projecting the image of the nice, independent girl just trying to pay her way through college onto every provider that throws up an ad, because unfortunately the truth behind the scenes is a lot of times much sadder. If we ever want to see this legalized, then both sides need to be there, both the free market and removal of criminalization, and support for low-income, addicted, or exploited girls that want help.

This is why I don't partake in the lower end of the market. It's rife with this kind of stuff. Guys post reviews of girls passing out during their sessions and other guys want more info. Disgusting.

[Chicago41]

Yet another tragic report:

https://babylonbee.com/news/first-in...goes-unclaimed

/ s.

Babylon Bee is similar to The Onion, but not very funny.

[RedBaron Daron]

Yet another tragic report:

https://babylonbee.com/news/first-in...goes-unclaimed

/ s.

Is it just me or does the award look like it could be used as a dildo?

RBD out.

[George Stark]

Yet another tragic report:

https://babylonbee.com/news/first-in...goes-unclaimed

/ s.

[FafaFooey]

There's a lot of grey areas on both sides of the argument.

Stings used to almost always target the women, but there was backlash, some of it well thought out, that it was just leading to a bunch of young, poor, addicted women getting saddled with fines they'd never pay and court appearances they'd never make with no effort at all to help them out of their situations. So to make enforcement sound more societally beneficial, the focus shifted to 'end the demand' and shaming men caught trying to hobby. It still didn't do anything to help the women that might want help, but at least stopped portraying them as the criminals. In the last few years, the 'trafficking' angle is almost always used, since that's pretty widely agreed on as a universal evil. But as you already mentioned, its much more likely a girl is being victimized or exploited by a local pimp or 'handler' (or even an agency from some of the posts in those threads) than a 'Law and Order' stereotyped trafficker funneling busloads of underage girls in from other countries.

On our side of things, we do need to stop projecting the image of the nice, independent girl just trying to pay her way through college onto every provider that throws up an ad, because unfortunately the truth behind the scenes is a lot of times much sadder. If we ever want to see this legalized, then both sides need to be there, both the free market and removal of criminalization, and support for low-income, addicted, or exploited girls that want help.

I think it's some of each. The "Scandinavian model" definitely comes out of the "Man bad, woman good" mindset of radical feminism. (In fairness, there are feminists who favor legalization. But they don't drive policy in most places.).

But there's a lot of Puritanism or whatever you want to call it, driving the enforcement as well.

And then there's the people living whee it's happening, especially with streetwalkers. I wouldn't want that happening in front of my house. But a mile away? Sure, LOL. Of course, the people living there feel the same way.

Also, agreed on the erroneous conflation of consensual escorting with "trafficking". I think most or nearly all of us here will avoid situations involving pimps or other coercive setups. That shit is disgusting

[Hobby Lover]

If I encountered an ongoing sting there is no way I would post it here or anywhere. Obstruction of Justice or "Interfering with a police investigation" by posting it on the internet when the police have my name would not be worth the risk.

But did you come back on here and post the ad stating "this was a trap"?

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[Sam Spade]

I don't think it's as much feminism as the fucking religious and social moralism. A bunch of people in our society think sex work is "icky" and that's why they want Dart and other busting hookers and their customers, people can't imagine that anyone could feel differently about than they do and don't want to respect that difference. They can give speeches all they like with their PR bullshit about "saving trafficked women", but if they really cared about ttrafficking victims they would stop busting consenting adults for doing something that harms nobody, go after actual traffickers, and offer consenting hookers protection under the law. It's all politics and PR, which is why Dart always steps up his arrests by a huge amount in election years. It's lazy policing and it harms as many as it helps because hookers can't go to the cops when some asshole beats them up or robs them.

Consider the towns were AMPs flourish, and what drives that. Or should I say, no one cares. Look at Naperville. That place is loaded with AMPs. It's not a town we would normally associate with the ones that are down on their luck and are willing to let anything exist if it brings in the tax dollars. It very upper middle class. Then there is Spring Grove that just a couple months ago had its one and only AMP shut down. That town is suffering, yet they shut down an AMP you had to look really hard for to find.

And things change. In the 80's if you looked in the Chicago Yellow Pages under Massage, you'd see ads for Tokyo Spa and Osaka Spa, in Michigan City, IN. Nothing erotic listed for Chicago. Now Chicago is loaded.

[George Stark]

I don't think it's as much feminism as the fucking religious and social moralism.

. They can give speeches all they like with their PR bullshit about "saving trafficked women", but if they really cared about ttrafficking victims they would stop busting consenting adults...

I think it's some of each. The "Scandinavian model" definitely comes out of the "Man bad, woman good" mindset of radical feminism. (In fairness, there are feminists who favor legalization. But they don't drive policy in most places.).

But there's a lot of Puritanism or whatever you want to call it, driving the enforcement as well.

And then there's the people living whee it's happening, especially with streetwalkers. I wouldn't want that happening in front of my house. But a mile away? Sure, LOL. Of course, the people living there feel the same way.

Also, agreed on the erroneous conflation of consensual escorting with "trafficking". I think most or nearly all of us here will avoid situations involving pimps or other coercive setups. That shit is disgusting