What do you think of prostitution?

The world oldest profession. It should be legalized, just as drugs should be legalized. These so-called crimes are not crimes at all. It is a crime to make it a crime.

Prostitution is okay, for as long as it is legalized, meaning the working women and men get rights, protection, rules to abide to, like STD's checkups and obligatory condom use, legalized brothels, the works.

I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with it, provided it is legalized and made safe. As things currently stand the sex work industry is ripe with abuse and in worst case a poorly kept secret backdoor to human trafficking; abuse, addiction, rape and other crimes committed within the industry (especially against the sex workers themselves) go unpunished because of it's illegality.

I say legalize it, make it safe. When perpetuated in a legal way, no one is hurt and it's a service that can improve quality of life for the people who use it - even if I wouldn't participate in either side of that business, I can't think of any good reasons why it shouldn't be allowed.

I personallyfind it disgusting, but at the end of the day, its simply an agreement between a man and a woman, which is none of our business. What happens behind closed doors is behind closed doors. I be me. You be you.

I personally see nothing wrong with prostitution unless it involves children. As adults you can make up your own mind. I have used prostitutes over the years, some on a semi regular basis when I was in between girlfriends. I think it should be legalized. It's going to happen anyways. That way you can regulate health standards and safety.

http://sign.demandprogress.org/?SOURCEProstitution? There is nothing wrong with selling pleasure. Restaurants do it, movie theaters do it, etc, etc. Prostitution, while necessary, does not have a favorable multiplier effect on other sectors of the economy. Neither does alcohol, nor mind destroying drugs. Societies that regulate prostitution discretely, like Amsterdam, minimize the social damages favorably.

The most productive form of prostitution is "tuition for sex". A sugar daddy arrangement is usually best for the girls. By fucking college girls you are encouraging them to become motivated professionals. Alternatively, "grades for sex" is a terrible form of corruption.

I don't think it's a good thing because it's basically exploiting not only the prostitute but also the client, although for some clients, it can be the only way to satisfy a specific niche/fetish/fantasy.

For example, there may be sexual services which the prostitute will provide that the client's regular partner is not into or curious about. Watersports (pissing), Hardsports (shitting), Blood play, BDSM, and ballbusting/cuntbusting are some of these niches/fantasies I refer to.

It's immoral in my view to make monetary gain from another person's sexual urges, however, I feel like if prostitutes didn't exist, many people would be very unhappy.

Prostitution is one of those things that I believe most people don't like, but end up accepting begrudgingly, and implicitly.

I say that because in my state, offering sexual services and buying them are both supposed to be illegal, a felony even. Yet, just three blocks away from where I live there are a couple of well-known hookers who've been trading BJs and pussy sex and buttsex for years now. And I've never once heard of any of them getting arrested, much less incarcerated. And it's not due to lack of police presence, or even police knowledge. There's also another one, "Mandy", who receives clients in her home. She picks them up from online ads (Craigslist), the guy would send her a pic of himself, and if she's cool with him, he comes, she even has cameras that record everything, makes the guy look at the camera beforehand, that way if he tries anything she can have him identified and arrested for assault or whatever he'd do. So she doesn't even need a pimp. Though it never comes to that cause she deals mostly with regulars, and has been for months now. And with the internet and availability of cameras these days, this seems to be the future of prostitution, she gets to pick the client, records everything for security, and doesn't even have to leave the home. And with the lower cost of ditching the pimp, she gets to lower the price a little and keep a steady supply of interested guys (depending on surrounding competition).

Anyway, my point is that can you imagine if someone kept breaking the law like that, over and over again, for some other crime? Like you go one night and commit an armed robbery, and then the next night commit another one, and so on, and yet no one ever bothers you, even though there's no shortage of police around the area? And like when the neighbors catch you committing your robbery, they'll go, "Hey listen you do your thing, whatever, but can you just keep it discreet and not in front of children? K thanks"? No way that happens. And yet that's what happens with prostitutes, who are technically criminals.

And it's not just here. When the police interviewed that hooker after the Vegas shooting last month, because she'd spent the night with him a few days before, when they were done with her about possible info on the guy, they were like, "Okay see ya later! You can go back to work" Even though what she did with Paddock was supposed to be a misdemeanor in the Vegas Strip. In other words, whatever the laws on the books say, this particular crime is rarely enforced, and only a fraction of those who break it end up behind bars.

Now I won't go all manosphere here and claim they're getting a free pass simply because they're women. Because for one thing, women who are guilty of other crimes do get arrested and the whole nine yards. And for another, it's not the only 'barely enforced' law, pot smokers for instance rarely get looked by cops in several states. No, rather, I just see that as society throwing its hand in the air, and tacitly accepting that this practice will keep being around as it has always been, from dirt-poor Third World countries to developed nations even where nobody risks starving to death and everyone has a shelter over his head, and where pre-marital relations are accepted and most men can have girlfriends and wives. And yet..

But we keep it illegal anyway. Because no politician wants to be the guy to come forward and say, "Hey this useless law is just here to look pretty and put a front of respectability on society," or run a legalize prostitution platform and introduce the Let Hoes Be bill.

So aside from times of war or some such, where it becomes a necessity for soldiers who are separated from the opposite sex for months, where there isn't much material to masturbate to, and so resorting to local whores will be all that remains for relief.. aside from those rare exceptions, I think few people will say it's okay, at least in respectable circles or mainstream society. My guess is we'll keep denouncing it in theory and (mostly) looking the other way in practice as we've done so far, at least when it comes to the 'profession' version of the trade. Other things like porn and dancing half-naked in suggestive music videos we don't even pretend to try and ban anymore.

My own vote would be "Okay only if it's done temporarily or rarely in one's lifetime". Hey if you ever paid a rent or two with a roll in the hay, and or if you made some extra cash to buy whatever by posing for some shots or video.. so long as you don't make your living out of it, I guess there are worse things in life. But that's where I'd draw the line.

I think its much better to see a prostitute than to rape or be a pedophile!

Many people around the world must engage in prostitution in order to survive, either because it is the only way for them to make money or because they are forced into it and face violent retaliation if they attempt to leave. Their are also many other people who turn to prostitution not to survive, but to finance an addiction or fill some sort of emotional need, and others still who have encountered so much sexual abuse during their childhoods that they have lost any boundaries regarding sexuality. In all these cases, these are people who need to be helped, not criminalized. By punishing prostitutes the legal system is punishing victims of abuse, violence, and poverty.

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I think prostitution is ok but I'd never dabble in it.

Prostitutes end up in dumpsters when insisting on condom use.