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You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
No, because in interacting with a (legal) prostitute the john has to go through the process of a normal business transaction and must communicate with their partner to get what they want out of them.Completely? You don't think a prostitute is objectified?
Because men don't have vaginas.
How is sex work different from any other line of work? Remuneration is provided for services rendered.You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
Depending on your view of capitalism, yes. Wage slavery is a very real thing.Erm, so that invalidates all financial transactions?
America's Puritan heritage runs deep.
You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
You can't buy consent as money is coercion.
Depending on your view of capitalism, yes. Wage slavery is a very real thing.
How is prostitution handled in other parts of the world?
How is sex work different from any other line of work? Remuneration is provided for services rendered.
I was fortunate to have a conversation about this topic with a colleague that worked with victims of human trafficking in the US.
She shared with me that when ti comes to policy supporting legalization people are concerned that individuals still would not have actual agency of their decision. The argument is that a student graduating from a good state school will probably not consider going into the line of work but if they do they have the resources to leave.
A single parent of two or a low skilled worker would have less resources to leave once working and would have higher pressure getting into that line of work to provide for themselves since there is really no skill needed or barrier of entry.
because it's political suicide to stand in favor of it
i can think of no other logical explanation
America's Puritan heritage runs deep.
Because most people are hypocrites.
It's been legal in Turkey since the beginning of the time. The government regulates the sex industry strictly and it generates quite a lot tax. But it also makes Turkey a target for Moldavian/Ukrainian human trafficking criminal organizations, which Turkey is known for its years long combat against such organizations.
Huge percentage of Turkey's working prostitutes, male or female, are still Eastern European (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian), though.
One question I have always wondered is whether prostitutes can discriminate against protected classes. Can a prostitute say "no black men" or is that still illegal discrimination? Should prostitutes be fined for discriminating against same-sex partners? If the prostitute decides they want to stop half way through, can he/she be sued for not fulfilling their side of the contract? If it is "just another job" then the answer is an obvious yes, but I want to hear your opinion.
Yea , but i think OP wants to know why thats the case. Why would the politician get smeared ? Why does this hypocritical and puritanical disposition still exist among the general populace?
Also, how would you even build public support for such a bill? I'd assume customers and providers of prostitution generally don't want to talk publicly about it.
America's Puritan heritage runs deep.
Ding Ding Ding.
funny considering the catholic church tolerated prostitution at the height of their power to reduce sexual violence.
When you have places like the south and west side of chicago that are basically warzones, adding this into the mix couldn't help at all.
This. We're pretty desensitized to violence, but put a nipple out there and people lose their shit.America's Puritan heritage runs deep.
Then why is prostitution legalized in the UK but not France? It's clearly more complicated than this.
It is more complicated than that.
In the UK, the actual act of prostitution (the exchange of sex for money) is not illegal. However, actions that initiate and aid in the act of prostitution (soliciting, running of a brothel for example), is.
You only have to look at the Netherlands and Australia who have made prostitution legal and provide the protection for those who provide such services to see how it's done properly.
How is sex work different from any other line of work? Remuneration is provided for services rendered.
Generally, the method that works best in regards to protecting the women is to legalize selling sex but make the act of buying sex illegal.
Wait. Isn't that basically the same as it being illegal?