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In reply to the discussion: Prostitution is Violence [View all]maggiesfarmer
(297 posts)thanks again for the studies on reducing instances of rape. Seib's theis is very interesting (I read more of her thesis than any other since grad school). I'm convinced that she makes a compelling case that instances of violence toward sex workers drops when prostitution is legal. What's still missing, are studies that really look at conditions before and after legalization. I still would like to see studies that look at Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, etc... and compare conditions before and after. I'm not convinced that legalization will have this great benefit to society in terms of reducing occurances of rape. The study that correlated price of prostitutes to occurances of rape is SUGGESTIVE that legalization leads to a reduction in rape but falls short of getting connecting the dots, IMO.
the PENET data is really old and only covers the US. While interesting, I don't think it gives much insight into how legalization impacts violence, STD, etc...
your point about female immigrants to countries with legal prostitution is dead on -- it says more about the countries they're leaving then the ones they move to. further, I agree that the best way to impact this is to have uniform prostitution laws across national borders -- but I don't think that's feasible.
again, nice, logical, rational discussion -- dig it!