The U.S. Government and all of the state and local policing agencies get their cut from prostitution by making it illegal and charging the men and women that solicit the prostitutes to get their cut!

The Government Pimps crimes related to drugs, cancer research, fast food, construction, and just about every business in America, they get a cut byway of taxes. They can’t get their cut from prostitution, so they keep it a crime.

If two people of legal age agree to have sex, it should not matter if one of them is going to profit financially from it. This is a big waste of resources. It clogs up our courts, jail cells and waste tax payers money.

We have far worse crimes for our law Enforcement to go after other than dressing our police up as whores to lure someone to ask them for sex for money!

You sound like someone who has never actually spoken to a current sex worker.

Many people (male and female) are comfortable doing sex work and do so simply because it is a well paid job with flexible hours. If someone can earn 10 or 20 times the minimum wage, why should they be denied the right to do so because others don’t approve?

Your idea that ”girls” lives have to be incredibly bad to become prostitutes is quite simply ignorance. I personally know sex workers who have left well paid jobs to do sex work, others who have high level education and are doing further degrees , some who are in long term relationships and are married.

They see sex work as simply that — work. It’s the society around them who refuse to believe that anyone can do this willingly or even happily that are the real problem.

The recent NI assembly resolution, supposedly in the name of human trafficking, conveniently ignored the fact that there wasn’t a single case of sex trafficking in NI last year (2014) and that 98% of local sex workers opposed it. These facts were ignored simply because this isn’t about trafficking, it’s about a moral crusade, something we’re all too familiar with here. ”Save Ulster from Sodomy” anyone?

Thanks for that, jackass.

“I wouldn’t use a prostitute…”

You wouldn’t know what to do, it’d be a waste of money.

Absolutely.

Causing politicians to have brain freezes is a feature as far as I’m concerned, not a bug 🙂

Leon…you really can’t go throwing common sense, practicality and personal liberty around the place like this. The political class will have a seizure….with any luck.

Quite. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t use a prostitute and find the business morally disgusting, but the reality is that I don’t believe there’s really much at all which should be prohibited in contracts between consenting adults, freely entered into*.

Also, there’s a public health issue here, it makes things far less safe for prostitutes in practice.

(* Of course, with a basic income and people not thus economically dependent on a boss, we’d see true freedom to enter contracts. The Nordic System already shows some of this with the strong social security net, but it’s not as good as a true basic income)

Well put Leon.

Thanks.