Should prostitution be legalized in Canada?

ridenrain @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:45 am

.. and addicts who don't "qualify" as legal prostitutes stay illegal so they can buy their drugs.
how does this stop these women from being victimized again?
I think the Lefties just want to go to prostitutes and have taxpayers pay for it. :-)

tritium @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:50 am

ridenrain ridenrain:

So for those who don't follow the law and take it off the streets, they get "stiffer" penalties.

bootlegga @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:52 am

I'd like to see it regulated for a couple of reasons.

Like Vancouver, Edmonton had a serial killer preying on prostitutes and a dozen or so have either gone missing or been found murdered on the outskirts of the city. Regulating it would offer some protection to these ladies.

The other is that the government would make a small fortune in taxes. If we got rid of this 'underground economy', maybe the tax burden for the rest of us could be lowered a bit.

tritium @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:05 am

lily lily:

ridenrain ridenrain:

so hwacker and tritium are lefties now.?

You bring up a good point. Legalizing prostitution won't help the drug addicts, nor will it do a thing for the little girls and those forced to satisfy the more bizarre "needs".

However, it will bring the majority of the problem into a safer environment, one that is more regulated, so women are not beaten or robbed, protection is available and once more, taxed.

Sure there will always be sickos out there who want little girls, drugs, that is society. I think harsher criminal legislation will help curb that shit too.

ridenrain @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:05 am

Sorry for the broad brush but I don't see this solving anything.
It's not the escort girls that are being charged, victimized or killed.
It's the drug addicts who are so desperate they have no alternative other than becomming prostitutes.

hwacker @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:18 am

$1:

women who choose this trade

Yeah you say that if it's on par with plumbers, electricians, and turd cleaners.

Clogeroo @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:19 am

I don't think legalising it would be a good thing. It should be discouraged not encouraged much like drugs and most other things that tend to ruin most people's lives. This isn’t Thailand or the Philippines and I would hate to see sex tourist places spring up everywhere because we made it legal. Not to mention the idea of the children being even more abused by this or finding themselves working in these kinds of places. I have helped people get out of this kind of life and situation and to try and find a better way to go. The day we say it is acceptable for people to sell themselves for the use of some perverted disgusting ill moral people is the day our society finds itself in the gutter. Although it is not so much the prostitutes that bother me it is the people who actually will pay for them who are the really sick people.

ridenrain @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:30 am

When was the last time a woman was charged with prostitution?
It's almost decriminalized already so who really benefits from making it legal?

Clogeroo @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:42 am

$1:

Nothing has worked so far, it will never go away. Instead of demonising them how about doing something to protect them.

Plus, look at it this way Clog, how else is a guy like you going to get laid?

How is it demonising? People shouldn't be paying for sex. People should be encouraged to find a better life style other than selling themselves.

Speak for yourself Avro the only romance you probably see is pushing your mop between your legs.

ridenrain @ Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:45 am

Avro Avro:

ridenrain ridenrain:

When was the last time a woman was charged with prostitution?
It's almost decriminalized already so who really benefits from making it legal?

One real way to see is to explore how effective it has been in states like Nevada and Amsterdam.

It's not a deep political issue but it's a problem that will never go away, how do we react? Protect those who are in the trade or ignore it?

But this does very little to protect those in the trade because the one's who are vulnerable are already victims of drugs, pimps or othe forces. Again, the ones who chose this trade are not the problem.

$1:

As countries are considering legalizing and decriminalizing the sex industry, we urge you to consider the ways in which legitimating prostitution as "work" does not empower the women in prostitution but does everything to strengthen the sex industry.

1. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution is a gift to pimps, traffickers and the sex industry.

2. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution and the sex industry promotes sex trafficking.

3. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not control the sex industry.It expands it.

4. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases clandestine, hidden, illegal and street prostitution.

5. Legalization of prostitution and decriminalization of the sex Industry increases child prostitution.

6. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not protect the women in prostitution.

7. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution increases the demand for prostitution. It boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider and more permissible range of socially acceptable settings.

8. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not promote women's health.

9. Legalization/decriminalization of prostitution does not enhance women's choice.

10.Women in systems of Prostitution do not want the sex industry legalized or decriminalized.

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