Should Prostitution Be Legal In America?

[OnePercenter]

YES!!!!

 

[OnePercenter]

...I think that it should be if it could be organized in a way where those under the age of eighteen are unaware that it is legal.

Do you think that it should be legal? Why or why not?

Thanks for all answers

Prostitution is legal. Its called pornography.

Why don't you explain how pornography is prostitution. I can't wait for this!

 

[ChrisL]

...I think that it should be if it could be organized in a way where those under the age of eighteen are unaware that it is legal.

Do you think that it should be legal? Why or why not?

Thanks for all answers

Prostitution is legal. Its called pornography.

Why don't you explain how pornography is prostitution. I can't wait for this!

It's sex acts for money. The "actors" are getting paid to have sex for money in front of a camera, and people buy their "sex." Kind of like prostitution anyway.

 

[ChrisL]

I do think prostitution should be legalized. I think it would be much easier to monitor and regulate the industry, and it would help to keep children out of the business. You CANNOT regulate and monitor an industry that is illegal. Something the gun banners need to realize.

 

[Unkotare]

I do think prostitution should be legalized. I think it would be much easier to monitor and regulate the industry, and it would help to keep children out of the business. .

No, it wouldn't. It never has.

 

[Unkotare]

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking

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[Unkotare]

Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

"A 2012 study published in World Development, “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?” investigates the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows into high-income countries. The researchers — Seo-Yeong Cho of the German Institute for Economic Research, Axel Dreher of the University of Heidelberg and Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics and Political Science — analyzed cross-sectional data of 116 countries to determine the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. In addition, they reviewed case studies of Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to examine the longitudinal effects of legalizing or criminalizing prostitution.

The study’s findings include:

• Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
• The effect of legal prostitution on human trafficking inflows is stronger in high-income countries than middle-income countries. Because trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation requires that clients in a potential destination country have sufficient purchasing power, domestic supply acts as a constraint.
• Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
• The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization."

- See more at: Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

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[ChrisL]

Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

"A 2012 study published in World Development, “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?” investigates the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows into high-income countries. The researchers — Seo-Yeong Cho of the German Institute for Economic Research, Axel Dreher of the University of Heidelberg and Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics and Political Science — analyzed cross-sectional data of 116 countries to determine the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. In addition, they reviewed case studies of Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to examine the longitudinal effects of legalizing or criminalizing prostitution.

The study’s findings include:

• Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
• The effect of legal prostitution on human trafficking inflows is stronger in high-income countries than middle-income countries. Because trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation requires that clients in a potential destination country have sufficient purchasing power, domestic supply acts as a constraint.
• Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
• The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization."

- See more at: Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

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I've read this before, and I'm not buying it. First of all, how do they know HOW MANY are illegally (key word being "illegally") trafficked into the country when it is ILLEGAL, and no one is monitoring or keeping track? The only way they can know is by arrest records, and that would only count in cases in which the person/people are CAUGHT and arrested and charged.

When it is illegal, there is absolutely NO monitoring. I think those countries were doing something wrong. Perhaps their regulations were subpar, but they could EASILY regulate who is being brought into the country and require licensing.

I don't know how anyone could argue that keeping it illegal makes LESS illegal activity????!!!! It doesn't make any sense!!

 

[High_Gravity]

...I think that it should be if it could be organized in a way where those under the age of eighteen are unaware that it is legal.

Do you think that it should be legal? Why or why not?

Thanks for all answers

Yes, it should be legal and monitored like it is in Germany. If you make it illegal like it is now you just leave the business in the hands of street criminals and thugs.

 

[ChrisL]

No way am I buying that legalizing and regulating puts MORE women in danger.

@Unkotare

How can they make the correlation that legalizing prostitution was ineffective, when they made MORE arrests for trafficking? That means that because they were regulating and monitoring things, they were arresting MORE people who were still doing it illegal. THAT is what we want.

They are trying to make a dishonest (and DANGEROUS) correlation, that legalizing prostitution did not work because they arrested more people for trafficking!!! Do you see what I am saying here? I hope you see the sneakiness behind this particular country's examples.

 

[Samson]

...I think that it should be if it could be organized in a way where those under the age of eighteen are unaware that it is legal.

Do you think that it should be legal? Why or why not?

Thanks for all answers

Yes, it should be legal and monitored like it is in Germany. If you make it illegal like it is now you just leave the business in the hands of street criminals and thugs.

Yes and as we know, local government oversight is much better than leaving the "business in the hands of street criminals!"

 

[ChrisL]

Another thing to consider . . . even if a woman willingly goes to another country to become a prostitute, if a person brings her into a country illegally for the purposes of prostitution (even if she is a willing participant), she will be counted as a person who was a victim of human trafficking.

 

[Unkotare]

No way am I buying that legalizing and regulating puts MORE women in danger.

Read the study. It is thorough and supported by vast quantities of data.

 

[Unkotare]

Another thing to consider . . . even if a woman willingly goes to another country to become a prostitute, if a person brings her into a country illegally for the purposes of prostitution (even if she is a willing participant), she will be counted as a person who was a victim of human trafficking.

Consider that while people sit around trying real hard to think of justifications and rationalizations, untold scores of women and girls are suffering. Priorities, priorities.

 

[ChrisL]

Another thing to consider . . . even if a woman willingly goes to another country to become a prostitute, if a person brings her into a country illegally for the purposes of prostitution (even if she is a willing participant), she will be counted as a person who was a victim of human trafficking.

Consider that while people sit around trying real hard to think of justifications and rationalizations, untold scores of women and girls are suffering. Priorities, priorities.

Exactly. Because prostitution is illegal, the pimps use this against the underage girls, so they are AFRAID to go to the police, especially when they are brought over from foreign countries and are in the country illegally.

Regulations help protect these girls and make it okay for them to seek help.

 

[ChrisL]

No way am I buying that legalizing and regulating puts MORE women in danger.

Read the study. It is thorough and supported by vast quantities of data.

I've read it, and it is flawed, like I pointed out to you.

It's like assuming that because you pushed the problem under the carpet, it no longer exists.

The thing with the study is that MORE People were caught trafficking because of the regulations. It HELPED to capture more of these guys.

You cannot tell me that you believe that keeping prostitution illegal protects these girls.

 

[Unkotare]

Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

"A 2012 study published in World Development, “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?” investigates the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows into high-income countries. The researchers — Seo-Yeong Cho of the German Institute for Economic Research, Axel Dreher of the University of Heidelberg and Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics and Political Science — analyzed cross-sectional data of 116 countries to determine the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. In addition, they reviewed case studies of Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to examine the longitudinal effects of legalizing or criminalizing prostitution.

The study’s findings include:

• Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
• The effect of legal prostitution on human trafficking inflows is stronger in high-income countries than middle-income countries. Because trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation requires that clients in a potential destination country have sufficient purchasing power, domestic supply acts as a constraint.
• Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
• The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization."

- See more at: Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

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I've read this before, and I'm not buying it.

The study is based on data gathered and analyzed scientifically. Your dismissal is based on.....?



Too many people are too ready to make fucking excuses while people are suffering. Here we see one of the bitterest fruits of 60 years of indoctrination into the belief that "vice" can't really mean anything other than raining on somebody's good time, that "if it feels good, do it" is the real Golden Rule, and that 'morality' only ever existed as a way for an oppressive authority to control people.

 

[Unkotare]

No way am I buying that legalizing and regulating puts MORE women in danger.

Read the study. It is thorough and supported by vast quantities of data.

I've read it, and it is flawed, like I pointed out to you. ...

I don't think you've read it, at least not carefully. Your concerns are addressed therein.

 

[ChrisL]

No way am I buying that legalizing and regulating puts MORE women in danger.

Read the study. It is thorough and supported by vast quantities of data.

I've read it, and it is flawed, like I pointed out to you. ...

I don't think you've read it, at least not carefully. Your concerns are addressed therein.

I've read it before at another forum and had this exact same argument. NO, it makes a ton of assumptions.

 

[ChrisL]

Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

"A 2012 study published in World Development, “Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?” investigates the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows into high-income countries. The researchers — Seo-Yeong Cho of the German Institute for Economic Research, Axel Dreher of the University of Heidelberg and Eric Neumayer of the London School of Economics and Political Science — analyzed cross-sectional data of 116 countries to determine the effect of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. In addition, they reviewed case studies of Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to examine the longitudinal effects of legalizing or criminalizing prostitution.

The study’s findings include:

• Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows.
• The effect of legal prostitution on human trafficking inflows is stronger in high-income countries than middle-income countries. Because trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation requires that clients in a potential destination country have sufficient purchasing power, domestic supply acts as a constraint.
• Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
• The type of legalization of prostitution does not matter — it only matters whether prostitution is legal or not. Whether third-party involvement (persons who facilitate the prostitution businesses, i.e, “pimps”) is allowed or not does not have an effect on human trafficking inflows into a country. Legalization of prostitution itself is more important in explaining human trafficking than the type of legalization."

- See more at: Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking Journalist s Resource Research for Reporting from Harvard Shorenstein Center

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I've read this before, and I'm not buying it.

The study is based on data gathered and analyzed scientifically. Your dismissal is based on.....?



Too many people are too ready to make fucking excuses while people are suffering. Here we see one of the bitterest fruits of 60 years of indoctrination into the belief that "vice" can't really mean anything other than raining on somebody's good time, that "if it feels good, do it" is the real Golden Rule, and that 'morality' only ever existed as a way for an oppressive authority to control people.

That doesn't mean anything. You cannot possibly believe than an unregulated industry is MORE safe than a regulated one? Think about it!!