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Are prostitutes criminals

Indeed it is and I think prostitution and escorting are crimminal acts.

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It shouldn't be anyway. The people (yes, there ARE male prostitutes) that do this are only trying to make some cash because their day job isn't well-paying, or because the government decided to cut their welfare for no apparent reason other than 'Oh we haven't got enough money'.
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Original post by Adamski191
It shouldn't be anyway. The people (yes, there ARE male prostitutes) that do this are only trying to make some cash because their day job isn't well-paying, or because the government decided to cut their welfare for no apparent reason other than 'Oh we haven't got enough money'.


People should not be selling their bodies and claiming a nontaxable income.
It is the same as selling drugs
they shouldn't be - plus it depends on the form of prostitution - if it's curb crawling then that's "criminal" in UK law
I honestly think brothels and curb crawling shouldn't be banned
Original post by Blue_Mason
People should not be selling their bodies and claiming a nontaxable income.
It is the same as selling drugs


I never said the money they earned should be nontaxable. I merely said they were making some EXTRA cash, to pay their taxes...
Unlike some other people in this country...
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No, they are simply doing a job to feed themselves and their families. No one goes into prostitution for the hell of it, people are forced into it as a last resort in some cases.

What they should do is make prostitution safer for both the clients and the women, so no one has to work in fear.
Don't see why it should be classed as a criminal act, they're not harming anyone and by making it illegal you're only opening the doors for actual criminals to take control of the industry.
Exchanging sex for money is legal in Great Britain.
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Original post by sleepysnooze
they shouldn't be - plus it depends on the form of prostitution - if it's curb crawling then that's "criminal" in UK law
I honestly think brothels and curb crawling shouldn't be banned


Brothels are horrible places, and drug use is associated with prostitution.
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No they're not nor should they be. It's your body and always your choice what you do with it, including if you wish to sell yourself for sex.

Criminalising it would do no good. I don't know why people think the solution to every problem is to ban everything.
No, absolutely not.

Pimps are criminals. Owners of an illegal prostitution business are criminals.

Legal brothels and prostitutes are not criminals.
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the law currently:
- prostitutes are legal
- working in a brothel is legal
- soliciting on the street is illegal
- running a brothel is illegal
Original post by fg45344
No, they are simply doing a job to feed themselves and their families. No one goes into prostitution for the hell of it, people are forced into it as a last resort in some cases.

What they should do is make prostitution safer for both the clients and the women, so no one has to work in fear.


Most prositutes ar drug addicts so that is saying something

Original post by Saeedpoppa
Don't see why it should be classed as a criminal act, they're not harming anyone and by making it illegal you're only opening the doors for actual criminals to take control of the industry.


They're hurting themselves, they're creating a dangerous environment.
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Original post by greghayes
the law currently:
- prostitutes are legal
- working in a brothel is legal
- soliciting on the street is illegal
- running a brothel is illegal


wait, so the brothel has to run itself?
Original post by Blue_Mason
Brothels are horrible places, and drug use is associated with prostitution.


1) brothels are safer than any other form of prostitution though, aren't they. they have security, STD testing, plus they employ people and they pay taxes just like any other business. you obviously are looking at brothels through the lens that the government want you to - there's literally nothing wrong with brothels unless you're going to just decide that sex is immoral. but even then, why? and if you have brothels legalised, any kind of pimping (in the violent sense) is brought to light because the whores aren't going to be scared to report them

2) people can use drugs without prostitution and people can be prostitutes without drug use. you can't just place people in such categories. for example, people also think that strippers "don't actually want to strip/dance" - that's horrifically inaccurate because obviously there's a huge amount of women (and men) who enjoy that kind of job just like those kinds of people enjoy modelling, regular dancing, *sex*, etc. prostitution, hence, just like stripping, is just another way of people making their own money, so there's nothing inherently wrong with it. if it's to pay for drug addictions, that doesn't tarnish the industry - how do you think people in bureaucracies or offices pay for their drug addictions, for instance? does that make those kinds of jobs awful if there are people in them paying for drugs via their income?
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Original post by fg45344
wait, so the brothel has to run itself?


It's one of those legal loopholes. Workers in a brothel aren't legally liable if the police raid it but the owner is. The idea is to protect those who currently work there but put off people from setting up new ones.
Original post by Blue_Mason
People should not be selling their bodies and claiming a nontaxable income.
It is the same as selling drugs


Surely then it should become legal, so that the government can start taxing them? Same with drug such as marijuana.
Prostitution is not illegal in itself and exchanging money for sexual services is not illegal either. But under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 there are activities such as soliciting in public, the owning or running a brothel etc are criminal acts.
As for escorting, neither is it illegal.
I see Blue Mason has his judgy pants on again.
Prostitution is the oldest profession and it will always be there. Why? Supply and demand.

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