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Should Utah be first state to legalize prostitution?

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Absolutely it should be legal with proper protections for the prostitutes.

Being a Navy vet it was surprising to me some of the guys who would use prostitutes and sometimes the ones who wouldn't. It has no appeal to me in the least even if it's all above board, but the absolute biggest turn off is that many prostitutes are not in that situation willingly, they are being coerced and sometimes flat out forced to be a prostitute. Then there are the ones who are supporting a drug habit.

Anyway, I find it all pretty distasteful. But if there are protections to protect prostitutes from being coerced by their employer (pimp) then I think it should be legal. As with most things, ineffective prohibition leaves you with two big problems instead of one smaller problem.
 
Gameface said:
Absolutely it should be legal with proper protections for the prostitutes.

Being a Navy vet it was surprising to me some of the guys who would use prostitutes and sometimes the ones who wouldn't. It has no appeal to me in the least even if it's all above board, but the absolute biggest turn off is that many prostitutes are not in that situation willingly, they are being coerced and sometimes flat out forced to be a prostitute. Then there are the ones who are supporting a drug habit.

Anyway, I find it all pretty distasteful. But if there are protections to protect prostitutes from being coerced by their employer (pimp) then I think it should be legal. As with most things, ineffective prohibition leaves you with two big problems instead of one smaller problem.
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This.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It is legal in unincorporated territory in NV, which is literally 98%+ of the land area of the state. Bad troll. Bad.
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Which explains the thousands of people daily streaming to Winamucca to pay to get laid.

While there are a few 'ranches' in unincorporated Nevada, the vast, vast majority of prostitution occurs in Las Vegas, where, although not strictly legal, local law enforcement pursues a very lax enforcement regimen. I'm guessing that many of the people going there to sample the wares assume that it's legal.

Your point is a distinction without a difference.

As to the OP, I see no reason why paying for sex should be illegal. We pay for everything else, why not sex? What is it about sex, other than a prurient religious objection, that so distinguishes it from thousands of other things we pay for, that it should be illegal?
 
Gameface said:
Absolutely it should be legal with proper protections for the prostitutes.

Being a Navy vet it was surprising to me some of the guys who would use prostitutes and sometimes the ones who wouldn't. It has no appeal to me in the least even if it's all above board, but the absolute biggest turn off is that many prostitutes are not in that situation willingly, they are being coerced and sometimes flat out forced to be a prostitute. Then there are the ones who are supporting a drug habit.

Anyway, I find it all pretty distasteful. But if there are protections to protect prostitutes from being coerced by their employer (pimp) then I think it should be legal. As with most things, ineffective prohibition leaves you with two big problems instead of one smaller problem.
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Actually, you just answered the question I posed above. This is the only (or at least best) reason I can think of for outlawing prostitution--the fact that so many prostitutes are coerced into it, or are exploited victims of their own desperation.

I travel to areas for work where you can't swing a stick without hitting a prostitute. I'm willing to guess that many of those prostitutes are victims of some kind of white slavery operation. It sickens me that so many men knowingly feed this horribly exploitative and immoral sex trade.

It also surprises me that so many men are willing to play Russian roulette with STDS. Sooner or later, they're going to catch one.
 
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