What's wrong with this picture?

-- Sodom and Gommorah (@ .), May 10, 2000

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>> What's wrong with this picture? <<

Sounds like a healthy, functioning capitalist system to me. Where there is demand, supply follows. Since when did capital let mere laws or morality stand in the way of profits?

Consider the fact that Firestone Tire and Rubber Company knew for a fact that a particular part in their assembly line was faulty and would cause one death of a worker every so often (I forget the exact number of years and months per death), but that the average compensation for a dead worker was cheaper than stopping the assembly line to replace all the defective parts. So they elected not to fix the problem.

Simple bottom-line economics, you know. Money vs. lives. A no-brainer. Isn't that more obscene than a porno film, any day including Sundays?

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), May 11, 2000.

I'll tell you what's wrong with this picture. Prostitution should not be illegal. Prostitutes should be licensed, bonded, and tested monthly for disease (as they are in Nevada). This would not only protect their clients but also protect them from assaults from their clients and pimps (illegall prostites are subject to theft, beatings, rape, and murder and are offered no police protection because of their status).

-- Citizen Ruth (ruth_parker@yahoo.com), May 11, 2000.

And the whorehouses would be in your neighborhood, Citizen Ruth?

-- (nemesis@awol.com), May 11, 2000.

Maybe all porno films are filmed where prostitution is legal.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), May 11, 2000.

Who said that legal prostitution automatically implied that there had to be whorehouses?

-- "John" (blojob@fivedolla.com), May 12, 2000.

One of the arguments of legal prostitution is that the state would monitor the 'hos for health and that prostitution would be taken off the streets--ie, whorehouses. Not in my backyard!

-- (nemesis@awol.com), May 12, 2000.

Most porno films are made in Los Angeles

-- One Who Knows (been@there.done.that), May 12, 2000.

If I solicit sex for $$$ and demonstrate an intent to film it, does that make it legal? I was planning on starring myself as the guy.

-- Wonderin (about@life's.meanings), May 12, 2000.

"One of the arguments of legal prostitution is that the state would monitor the 'hos for health"

Yes, that argument was made here. Do you have some objection to it?

"and that prostitution would be taken off the streets"

No, no, nobody on this thread made that argument but you. No one here claimed that legalization of prostitution would get prostitutes "off the streets." Perhaps you want somebody to make that claim, but no one here has made it but you. Looks like a straw man to me.

"--ie, whorehouses."

Why couldn't a prostitute work out of her own apartment? Or out of another residence that she rents specifically for that purpose? Who said that there would have to be multiple prostitutes working out of a whorehouse? You're really trying too hard to set up straw men, Nemesis. If you'd pay a little more attention to the arguments that are actually MADE, then we would all have a more enjoyable time debating this particular issue.

"Not in my backyard!"

Sex in the backyard, whether with a prostitute or not, can be quite enjoyable. Just make sure that you only do it on a dark and moonless night, and that you have a nice high opaque fence so the neighbors can't see you going at it. Oh, yes, and try not to make too much noise. It hurts the sensitive hearing of law enforcement officers and jealous nosy neighbors who may not be getting enough sex of their own.

-- "John" (blojob@fivedolla.com), May 13, 2000.