Reply #40: Demeaning to women?

[JackRiddler]

What could be more demeaning than forcing women who choose this path for mostly economic reasons beyond their control (fucked up, isn't it?) to sell their services on the street, die of horrible diseases, be hunted by predators and the police, and rounded up up into prisons?

This is an experiment with a control example. European countries have legal brothels with monthly medical check-ups, health insurance, guaranteed payment and the protection of a place of business. (Yes - disreputable! but clean and safe.) Plus drug treatment programs that work (certainly relative to here). You don't see women on the street peddling themselves for $10 to get crack. How can anyone not see that the European situation is better?

It's better doesn't mean it's good. The best world would be one where no woman sees prostitution as a reasonable economic alternative, because we have an economy that actually gives everyone a decent living. Meanwhile, what happens in Amsterdam and Hamburg is a lot more civilized than the situation here.