Let's talk about prostitutes!
I believe that everyone should be free to make their own choices. Whether those choices are about one's career path, what to wear or what to poison their body with, there should never be anything standing in the way of someone's personal freedom to live as they please. It is my personal feeling that if two men want to sell weed, shoot some heroin, have sex and get married, it should be their choice if they do not cause any direct harm to another. Which brings me to prostitutes. Why is the "world's oldest profession" illegal in our nation? That's a VERY SIMPLE question with a couple simple answers: Jealousy of spouses and prudish Christian values. One of the main forces in criminalizing prostitutes was the lobbying of angry women who found that their husbands enjoyed hanging out at the brothel/saloon more than at home.
Now some people claim that prostution is still illegal in this country because it protects women from having to be forced into that life and it keeps STDs from spreading. First off, what is so bad about being a prostitute? If I could have sex 2-3 times a week and make the same as I do now, why wouldn't I want to do that? Just like a shop owner, you have the right to refuse service to anyone, so you aren't being forced into doing anything. Imagine if you could make $150 for 10 minutes of work whenever you felt like it. You could work your ass off for a week and not have to do any work for months. If I was a prostitute, I'd be much happier than what I am now: a whore for the financial industry. A whore is someone who gets paid to do something that any human can do. Processing paperwork for a financial corporation is the same thing, except I don't get pleasure out of opening IRA accounts and I am a prisoner at my desk for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
As for safety, having prostitution criminalized directly causes harm to those who have no other choice other than prostitution. They are forced to have pimps to protect themselves from rape and robbery and end up as indentured servants to sadistic slave-drivers. They also are subject to rapes and there is no regulation that ensures that prostitutes are regularly screened for STDs. So by making prostitution illegal, the government is in essence helping the spread of STDs and violence. How can forcing women (and some men) to prostitute themselves without any legal protection be safe? If prostitution was legal, it would be regulated, and like everything else that should be legalized, it could be taxed to provide for protection and education. If prostitution were regulated, we could profit from it and use the tax money to provide testing and start the "Department of Sexual Services" to regulate the industry.
Prostitution is never going to go away, but where do you draw the line? How is dating any different? Dating is prostitution, only you don't always get what you pay for. How is meeting a girl at a bar and buying her $40 worth of drinks to get her home any different than ordering an escort out of the yellow pages? Simple, the girl at the bar might just be using you to get her drunk so she can go home with someone else...and if she goes home with you, she's just a really cheap prostitute because it's just one night of pleasure and goodbye. Marriage is prostitution if one of the couple is a homemaker. They get a house, car, financial security in exhange for companionship and the sexual benefits. To me, a prostitute is like a professional athlete, they do something everyone else enjoys, but they get paid to do it, and they're experts at it.
I am not one to pay for sex, it just seems pointless, because I can always find some if I try hard enough. But why deny people who don't have that luxury the pleasure simply because of antiquated moral beliefs. Make no mistake about it, prostitution is illegal simply because of the conservative values held in this country. In Hamburg Germany, the prostitutes line up next to the Police station and they are very safe because of that. The cops protect them, and they are required to be safe and of age. Amsterdam is famous for its prostitution, and there it is a major draw for the city and a stimulant for the economy. This country is wasting money and time arresting and incarcerating prostitutes and their customers when we could be profiting from it. Like drugs, making it illegal hasn't done anything to diminish the supply, look under "entertainment" or "escort" in your yellow pages and tell me how many more numbers you see there than for basically any other profession. I just don't believe anything should be prohibited when it is a natural thing...but maybe I just want to be a prostitute and get paid to sleep with women.
Now some people claim that prostution is still illegal in this country because it protects women from having to be forced into that life and it keeps STDs from spreading. First off, what is so bad about being a prostitute? If I could have sex 2-3 times a week and make the same as I do now, why wouldn't I want to do that? Just like a shop owner, you have the right to refuse service to anyone, so you aren't being forced into doing anything. Imagine if you could make $150 for 10 minutes of work whenever you felt like it. You could work your ass off for a week and not have to do any work for months. If I was a prostitute, I'd be much happier than what I am now: a whore for the financial industry. A whore is someone who gets paid to do something that any human can do. Processing paperwork for a financial corporation is the same thing, except I don't get pleasure out of opening IRA accounts and I am a prisoner at my desk for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
As for safety, having prostitution criminalized directly causes harm to those who have no other choice other than prostitution. They are forced to have pimps to protect themselves from rape and robbery and end up as indentured servants to sadistic slave-drivers. They also are subject to rapes and there is no regulation that ensures that prostitutes are regularly screened for STDs. So by making prostitution illegal, the government is in essence helping the spread of STDs and violence. How can forcing women (and some men) to prostitute themselves without any legal protection be safe? If prostitution was legal, it would be regulated, and like everything else that should be legalized, it could be taxed to provide for protection and education. If prostitution were regulated, we could profit from it and use the tax money to provide testing and start the "Department of Sexual Services" to regulate the industry.
Prostitution is never going to go away, but where do you draw the line? How is dating any different? Dating is prostitution, only you don't always get what you pay for. How is meeting a girl at a bar and buying her $40 worth of drinks to get her home any different than ordering an escort out of the yellow pages? Simple, the girl at the bar might just be using you to get her drunk so she can go home with someone else...and if she goes home with you, she's just a really cheap prostitute because it's just one night of pleasure and goodbye. Marriage is prostitution if one of the couple is a homemaker. They get a house, car, financial security in exhange for companionship and the sexual benefits. To me, a prostitute is like a professional athlete, they do something everyone else enjoys, but they get paid to do it, and they're experts at it.
I am not one to pay for sex, it just seems pointless, because I can always find some if I try hard enough. But why deny people who don't have that luxury the pleasure simply because of antiquated moral beliefs. Make no mistake about it, prostitution is illegal simply because of the conservative values held in this country. In Hamburg Germany, the prostitutes line up next to the Police station and they are very safe because of that. The cops protect them, and they are required to be safe and of age. Amsterdam is famous for its prostitution, and there it is a major draw for the city and a stimulant for the economy. This country is wasting money and time arresting and incarcerating prostitutes and their customers when we could be profiting from it. Like drugs, making it illegal hasn't done anything to diminish the supply, look under "entertainment" or "escort" in your yellow pages and tell me how many more numbers you see there than for basically any other profession. I just don't believe anything should be prohibited when it is a natural thing...but maybe I just want to be a prostitute and get paid to sleep with women.
posted by Dan Pasternack at 4:36 PM
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