Reply #150: You really see labor and sex as the same thing?

[Firespirit]

Good lord.

The people who say "Legalize it and regulate it" really have not thought this through.

When you make sex something that anyone is obligated to provide, EVER, under ANY circumstances, you are opening the door for human rights abuses.

NO person has an inherent right to sex, be it in a relationship, marriage, or prostitute/client dealing. I cannot support any government system that changes that.

Right now there is no legal recourse when someone pays a prostitute before doing anything, and the prostitute runs off with the money -- because it is not a legal industry. Introducing government sanction opens the door for fines, prosecutions, and additional legal attacks on women (and a few men). Rather than the woman being the victim, the poor defrauded man gets the public sympathy. No thanks.

Would the government force a prostitute to have sex with a man after taking his money? No.

Would it foster an atmosphere of pressure and control within the sex trade, with the workers fearing to refuse a customer? Absolutely.

Would it open the door for a system in which clients could set up contracts with brothels, a "monthly sex fee," with the client entitled to that product? It could.

This is a human rights issue.