"Legalise prostitution because 21st Century men need more sex says think-tank"

[Delta4Embassy]

Legalise prostitution because 21st Century men need more sex says think-tank

"Empowerment of women has created a “male sex deficit” which prostitution could usefully fill, argues sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim in paper published by leading free-market research group

The sex trade should be fully decriminalised because feminism has left modern men starved of sex, one of Baroness Thatcher's favourirte think-tanks claims.

A controversial new paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calls for Britain’s prostitution laws to be scrapped, insisting it is “inevitable” that men will resort to paying for sex as women become more empowered through participation in the workplace.

The paper by the outspoken sociologist and author Dr Catherine Hakim claims that men effectively have twice as much sexual desire as women but that it is no longer being met at home.

Most controversially, it claims that the link between prostitution and human trafficking has been overstated and it argues that legalisation of the sex trade could actually reduce rape and sexual crime against women. "

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[ABikerSailor]

You know, I've been all over the Med, and in many countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey), prostitution is legal. Matter of fact, in Catania Sicily, there is a red light district that opens up around 6:30 pm (that's when the women open up their little rooms and sit in front of it), and goes until around 12:30, and is patrolled by the city police and by the Italian national police. Never felt safer than when I was walking around there, because no violence or crime was allowed, and it was STRICTLY enforced.

If prostitution was legal over here, they should do it like they do over there. All working girls are inspected on a regular basis and given health cards. When negotiating, you have the right to see her health card to see if she's current and what her status is BEFORE money changes hands. She then washes you, puts on a condom, and you proceed with business.

Women would pay taxes on what they made, they would be healthy so as to not spread diseases, as well as when a client beat them up or refused to pay, they could go to the police and have the matter taken care of.

Yeah.................legalize it!

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Think it's still largely a female indepedence issue for US lawmakers. If they legalize it, women gain economic independence, marriage loses some power, sex is normalized, etc.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Actually, it's illegal here because this nation was founded by a bunch of prudes that were so "pure" that they got kicked out of Europe. Look up Puritans. Lots of their views have been passed on so that they still infect society today.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Actually, it's illegal here because this nation was founded by a bunch of prudes that were so "pure" that they got kicked out of Europe. Look up Puritans. Lots of their views have been passed on so that they still infect society today.

Benjamin Franklin was no prude.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Actually, it's illegal here because this nation was founded by a bunch of prudes that were so "pure" that they got kicked out of Europe. Look up Puritans. Lots of their views have been passed on so that they still infect society today.

Benjamin Franklin was no prude.

You're right................but then again, how many members are there of the Hellfire Club that are still in government?

 

[DGS49]

Actually, the political issue can be summarized as follows: There is no political up-side to introducing or supporting legislation to legalize prostitution.

Most people would be fine with it, but politically the calculation goes as follows: A tiny percentage of the voting population will vote against you if your support legalization; but NOBODY will vote for you because you support legalization (it's not that big an issue for most people). It's a net negative.

 

[longknife]

I note that the crux of the study is one nobody has responded to - The Women's Lib Movement.

Women have been indoctrinated into believing they don't need men in their lives.

That leaves men with a meager choice of legit partners. Who else can they turn to other than prostitutes.

Having driven a cab in Vegas, I came in contact with a lot of women who worked in the various "gentleman's" clubs and all of them felt a lot more empowered than the Women's Lib crowd and bragged how they were a lot freer.

In addition, legalizing the trade would free tens of thousands of hookers from their pimps - which in itself should make it worthwhile.

And finally, it would close down all those massage parlors where uncounted thousands of young Asian girls are held in a form of slavery.

 

[Anonymous1977]

Legalise prostitution because 21st Century men need more sex says think-tank

"Empowerment of women has created a “male sex deficit” which prostitution could usefully fill, argues sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim in paper published by leading free-market research group

The sex trade should be fully decriminalised because feminism has left modern men starved of sex, one of Baroness Thatcher's favourirte think-tanks claims.

A controversial new paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calls for Britain’s prostitution laws to be scrapped, insisting it is “inevitable” that men will resort to paying for sex as women become more empowered through participation in the workplace.

The paper by the outspoken sociologist and author Dr Catherine Hakim claims that men effectively have twice as much sexual desire as women but that it is no longer being met at home.

Most controversially, it claims that the link between prostitution and human trafficking has been overstated and it argues that legalisation of the sex trade could actually reduce rape and sexual crime against women. "

rest at link

...I don't believe that a secular government has the right to regulate the private sex lives of consenting adults...just me though.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Legalise prostitution because 21st Century men need more sex says think-tank

"Empowerment of women has created a “male sex deficit” which prostitution could usefully fill, argues sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim in paper published by leading free-market research group

The sex trade should be fully decriminalised because feminism has left modern men starved of sex, one of Baroness Thatcher's favourirte think-tanks claims.

A controversial new paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calls for Britain’s prostitution laws to be scrapped, insisting it is “inevitable” that men will resort to paying for sex as women become more empowered through participation in the workplace.

The paper by the outspoken sociologist and author Dr Catherine Hakim claims that men effectively have twice as much sexual desire as women but that it is no longer being met at home.

Most controversially, it claims that the link between prostitution and human trafficking has been overstated and it argues that legalisation of the sex trade could actually reduce rape and sexual crime against women. "

rest at link

...I don't believe that a secular government has the right to regulate the private sex lives of consenting adults...just me though.

They do if those women are offering sex as a commodity, because now it is in the public domain and the sex workers need to be checked regularly so they don't spread diseases and stay safe themselves.

Besides................I think if a woman is attacked, she should be able to go to the police and report the abuser, EVEN IF she had just participated in prostitution.

Legalize it, tax the revenue, make sure they pass health inspections, and keep the women safe from pimps and criminal johns.

 

[Anonymous1977]

They do if those women are offering sex as a commodity, because now it is in the public domain and the sex workers need to be checked regularly so they don't spread diseases and stay safe themselves.

Besides................I think if a woman is attacked, she should be able to go to the police and report the abuser, EVEN IF she had just participated in prostitution.

Legalize it, tax the revenue, make sure they pass health inspections, and keep the women safe from pimps and criminal johns.

Agree...they have the right to regulate it business-wise (with taxes) but I don't believe morally...actually the way things are now prostitution is a moral crime and not a business crime.

No one will be arrested for asking someone, "hey man, you want to make 10 dollars helping me change my tire," or something like that...

 

[ABikerSailor]

One man's morals and another man's dogma, and you then come up with rules that some try to say are laws.

Sorry, but prostitution works in countries that aren't wrapped up in the dogma and religion that they think is the right one.

 

[Unkotare]

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Most people would be fine with it,.....

The untold numbers of women and children who would be victimized, brutalized, and killed due to such immoral action would not be "fine with it."

 

[Unkotare]

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Sorry, but prostitution works in countries that aren't wrapped up in the dogma and religion that they think is the right one.

NO, it doesn't.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

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Most people would be fine with it,.....

The untold numbers of women and children who would be victimized, brutalized, and killed due to such immoral action would not be "fine with it."

Was under the impression they're being victimized as it is being illegal.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

When things are illegal, criminals will provide it. And since it's covert, adherrance to laws and regulations doesn't come into it. Want less victims of sex trafficking and the like, legalize and regulate prostitution.

 

[waltky]

Yea...

... Uncle Ferd always tellin' his g/f...

... he needs more sex.

Granny says he actually beggin'.

 

[Unkotare]

Women and children are still victimized when prostitution is 'legal.' There is no avoiding the destructive, dehumanizing, deadly immorality of the subject. Only selfish hedonists attempt to.

 

[danielpalos]

Legalise prostitution because 21st Century men need more sex says think-tank

"Empowerment of women has created a “male sex deficit” which prostitution could usefully fill, argues sociologist Dr Catherine Hakim in paper published by leading free-market research group

The sex trade should be fully decriminalised because feminism has left modern men starved of sex, one of Baroness Thatcher's favourirte think-tanks claims.

A controversial new paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calls for Britain’s prostitution laws to be scrapped, insisting it is “inevitable” that men will resort to paying for sex as women become more empowered through participation in the workplace.

The paper by the outspoken sociologist and author Dr Catherine Hakim claims that men effectively have twice as much sexual desire as women but that it is no longer being met at home.

Most controversially, it claims that the link between prostitution and human trafficking has been overstated and it argues that legalisation of the sex trade could actually reduce rape and sexual crime against women. "

rest at link

If only, we could find nice girls of social morals for free who are willing to fornicate us into relationships, not Only for fun and practice, but also to be moral to a true witness bearing Commandment.

 

[longknife]

Women and children are still victimized when prostitution is 'legal.' There is no avoiding the destructive, dehumanizing, deadly immorality of the subject. Only selfish hedonists attempt to.

It's clear you support a situation where unscrupulous pimps enslave young, impressionable girls with drugs, sending them out to beg on the streets, then turning over everything to their "loving man."

How considerate of you.