Heh, this thread made me sign up for this forum.

There is an interesting example in Sweden. A couple of years ago it became illegal to buy sex but it is still legal to sell it. This made it more dangerous for the prostitutes to sell them self because the family fathers that frequented them got scared and the prostitutes had to take on the more dangerous clientèle.

And now to my opinion of the subject.

First I make the assumption that sex is an commodity as it has sellers and buyers. And as a commodity I see no reason why it should be regulated since there are consenting human beings that engage in the transaction.

In my opinion it should be legalized and if the government greedily wants a cut from the winning they can tax it too. Which should make the slavery problem decrease since there is an easily available legal option that is open for inspection, as long as there is an unregulated black market the slavery problem will be significant.

If I recall correctly then the prostitutes created an union in Holland, where they have to go through monthly (I believe) health checkups. This decreases the problems of venereal diseases and minimum wage.

Now as to who it is that works as a prostitute, whether it is the lower class or higher, does it really matter? If you take another occupation as an example it puts it in perspective. Do you really think that the rich person really would even consider to work as a janitor in a school? Probably not. But that is another question, one about societies classes.

So to summarize, in my opinion the most healthy policy on this subject is that it should be legal, perhaps taxed, with monthly free health checkups and open for public scrutiny.

And when it comes to who will work as a prostitute I suspect that bored housewives would perhaps try it for the thrill of it.


But that just my opinion, I may be wrong.

F-J