Should prostitution be legalized?

I gave my reasoning, in most cases I don't believe someone freely decides to become a prostitute. You cannot compare prostitution to working at Mc Donalds because by saying that you're are undermining the normality of sex. An exchange for sex isn't the same as handing over a happy meal, is it? You don't reproduce by eating chicken nuggets, do you? You can't be intimate by eating a cheese burger, can you? it's not the same. Sex is natural, people do it all the time, by selling something that nature intended for you to do anyway most likely kills the pleasure and normality of sex for prostitutes. I believe it affects them more personally than a job in Mc Donald's does, even if they grew up not wanting to work there are purely do it for the money.

Making it out like it's just like any other job is wrong, it's not.

Also I don't even know if I can call myself a feminist anymore. I won't call myself an egalitarian either, because I've always hated those people "I'm not feminism, I'm an egalitarian"

I believe in equality, but 3rd wave feminism has many things wrong with it, mostly it's priorities... and whilst I agree mostly with 2nd Wave, I'm not a middle class white woman. 1st wave is obviously I agree with as it was the birth of the movement...so yeah...

I'm not labelling myself anything.

Stop it, you know I didn't mean it like that

Tbf I was getting bit annoyed XD

Well exactly - thus the legalization of regulated brothels and selling sex within escorting services would hopefully be safer for prostitutes as they wouldn't have to go out in the streets or invite people back to their personal homes.

Yes but the opening post was should we make prostitution legal..... It already is. Should we adapt that law wasn't in the post


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I am good friends with a prostitute and she actually says she enjoys it and doesn't feel a lack of self-respect for doing it, nor does she find it humiliating. So, by definition, in no way can she be said to be degrading herself. I'm sure many escorts feel this way, and the same certainly goes for a lot of porn stars. Moreover, if some prostitutes do find it humiliating, this is surely due to the social stigma related to it, which could be alleviated by it becoming seen as more respectable.That is just your entirely subjective opinion. Could you define what you mean by "exploitation" and explain how it differs in this instance from any and all exchanges it could ubiquitously be applied to (for example, paying someone to deliver pizzas, where they are being used as nothing more than a transportation/delivery device)?This is almost exactly the same argument many people use against homosexual relationships or gay marriage (in that it "degrades" marriage). Why should the whole world have to adhere to how you personally feel sex should be?

My opinion is my opinion, exploitation for me is the fact that these women (ok some are willing to) are placing their bodies up to be misused as though it's a business proposition or transaction rather than a body. That's my view you can think what you like.

I think a lot of prostitues freely decide to become a prostitue, I am not disagreeing what you are saying that it is morally wrong but a lot of prostitues would choose to be a prostitute over a retail job. Mainly because prostitues make x10 more than what retail jobs would make. So it is really down to the money.

My opinion is my opinion, exploitation for me is the fact that these women (ok some are willing to) are placing their bodies up to be misused as though it's a business proposition or transaction rather than a body. That's my view you can think what you like.

There needs to be better job opportunities so they don't see prostitution as their only option.

Most of us can agree there isn't anything 'right' about prostitution

If sex work is legalized, it means that the state makes very specific laws and policies that formally regulate sex work. This can lead to a two tier system where many sex workers operate outside these regulations and are still criminalised - often the most marginalised street based sex workers. Decriminalization places greater control into the hands of sex workers to operate independently, self-organise in informal cooperatives and control their own working environments in a way that legalization often does not.

During our consultation with sex workers, most of those we spoke to supported decriminalization but were frequently nervous about the implications of legalization. This was not only because of their mistrust of law enforcement authorities but also because of fears that if the wrong model of legalization is adopted, it may disempower them or even lead to criminalization and abuse.

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know there was an article in today's Times by Janice Turner that was very very pro the Nordic model ie very much in agreement with you.

It certainly made me think. However the main problem I had with it is that the women described in the article were most definitely not my personal experience.