The invisible victims of victimless crime

[stupidicus]

40. you were a victim of wouldbe criminals

that would exist and pursue that course regardless of the legality or illegality of prostitution.

How is the situation you described any different from the wife or husband (and their kids perhaps) that are "victimized" by the loss that can and often does consequently occur should such be revealed? It has absolutely nothing to do with what most mean and refer to with the "victimless crime" designation -- that there are no victims in the confines of that relationship -- and your experience doesn't change that.

All you've done is widened/added to something with a narrow definition. The same kinda arguments have been made with other "victimless crimes" like the drug war many of us are all too familiar with, and your "story" is roughly analogous to say, some adult trying to sell pot to a kid. Do you seriously think that most of us adults around here are unaware of these things? You appear to advocating the notion that the John and prostitute should remain vulnerable to criminal prosecution on the basis that doing otherwise wouldn't deter the wouldbe trafficers, child prostitute recruiters/seekers, etc, when obviously by the existence of your experience, it ain't getting the job done. ANd of course we haven't gotten into nor will we, the socio-economic factors that play a role the kinda prostitution, drug-riddled communities you're likely talking about.

I'd suggest that nobody wants to make you invisible, they just don't wanna make the time and text investment in helping you understand that your experiences do not change what is meant by a "victimless crime" for legal, prohibition overturning purposes. By your standards, alcohol should still be prohibited based upon all the evil some do with it as a result of it being legal, as should some of the practices of some religious kooks with children in this country, or even chain-smoking parents filling their kids lungs with it too. Just because some abuse things and the people around them is not sufficient cause to criminalize something only tangentially related to it -- like pedophiles, etc, not knowing the diff between an innocent little girl like you and a kid that chose prostitution.

That's all a function of where you lived and happenstance, not the now illegal prostitute/client relationship you appear to want to perpetuate just because child predators exist in the world, and you happened to live in a place where their was a lot of them primarily because their was a lot of poor women thinking they had no other way outta of it, or to even live comfortably in it by other means.