Reply #107: This thread is really blowing my mind

[eilen]

There is a difference between legalizing and decriminalizing. I agree with decriminalizing prostitution because it doesn't seem fair that the women treated as meat envelopes are prosecuted.

The argument about legally consenting adults pales when looked at in legalized environments like Nevada, where the women are kept virtual prisoners there (certainly not for their benefit) and Amsterdam where they are displayed like sides of beef in shop windows and cages.

Our government, regulate? They can't even keep the beef supply healthy, never mind protect Walmart employees from abuses.

The fact that money is involved points exactly to the point. Since the sexual revolution in the 1960's it is a virtual impossibility that a man or a woman cannot participate in sex with a willing partner (who does not work for them, please). The milk is literally flowing for free. Honestly. I have worked with some incredibly unattractive people and they most always are married with kids at home. My neighbor was married to a man with no legs, they met at rehab. She divorced him for cheating on her, and not with any prostitute.


So, why the need for a prostitute? Esp. for a powerful man like the former Attorney General of NY, the Governor?

They want something else. It is power, the idea of buying and having power over a woman. Because it this was an equal transaction instead of what could be termed a "purchase" of the right to have mastery/dominion over the woman, I think the siren call of thousand dollar hooch would lose its ardor.