Yep, should be legal and regulated.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Prostitution has recently been criminalised in Ireland. A big political push from an alliance of religious loons and Feminazi's.

its early days, but i reckon the move will be as successful as alcohol prohibition in 1920's America.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

Licenced brothels or massage parlours. Testing for all workers. Show a certificate in order to be able to work. Therefore more protection for the women who are routinely assaulted or subjected to forms of abuse during the course of earning a living.

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

One of the weak argument for legalising drugs is that it gets rid of the black market.....which it doesn't if you think about it...it just lowers the price.

This is also a problem with legalising the selling of sex.....but whereas with drugs I can see the argument that the state shouldn't be adding to the list of approved negative lifestyle choices that it makes money from.....I don't see how that argument relates to prostitution. You can't overdose on fcuking.

I don't claim to have given the topic much thought in terms of how it would be best regulated.....the principle however remains that this area should not be criminalised.

I can see an argument for kerb crawling to be banned like it is now....simply as other people have a right not to have sex sellers shoving their wears in their face.

Licensed brothels, properly run for both the safety of their workers and their clients.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Nov 2017 11.48pm)

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Yup. As well as being safer, cleaner and oppression free, legitimate brothels should also undermine the illicit traffic of women.

Even if a regulated system has its faults it would nevertheless be better than illegal brothels with very young "imported" women forced to work in fear and confinement.

Won't happen though. Same reason sensible drug legislation won't happen. The older generation - Willo types - don' like it. They don't know why. It just "feels" wrong somehow. And since they do all the voting, we will have to wait until that generation dies out before any sensible policies can be brought in.

When that happened the next generation will have to deal with the organised criminal syndicates who have evolved do deal with prohibition drugs and women. If you think they will suddenly disappear when good sense takes hold think again. The Cosa Nostra and other powerful criminal organisations who blossomed under US prohibition are still rich and powerful 90 years after booze was re-legalised. They had the infrastructure, money and numbers in place. All they needed to do was diversify.

Because it's cheaper....because it's additional...because you might not want an 'other' to know...any number of reasons. People are people living wildly different lives and some don't do what you think is sensible.

The black market exists where drugs have been legalised. It was an obvious flaw in the original logic and pro legalization claims should have always recognised it . Still, legalisation would reduce the issue we have.

Sure.

Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Nov 2017 10.57am)

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