Because children are frequently in contact with prostitutes? I will alos point out, you claim it sets a "very bad example". How so? Because it will encourage them to become prostitutes themselves, or to hire prostitutes. So what. That only matters if you can show that prostitution is bad. Your reasoning for prostitution being bad is that it influences children... this is called CIRCULAR LOGIC!


Can prostitutes not be male in your world then?


Actually they would only effect the people they're having sex with. On top of that, sex spreads disease not prostitution, so what you're suggesting is we ban sex. Giving someone money after having sex with them will not spontaneously give you herpes.


No there isn't, there are excuses and logical fallacies, you have failed to give a single reason.


It is that simple. Having sex only effects the two people having sex. Giving someone a £20 note only effects the two people involved. Doing one directly after the other does not suddenly involve more people.


Fucking prove it. This is a big claim and quite frankly is offensive and inconsiderate. Don't make such stupid claims unless you can back them up.


Because when you have sex with someone and DON'T pay them, you become immune to HIV apparently.


Are you telling me that crazy desperate murderers can't kill people unless they've paid them for a sexual act, because I think you'll find that's wrong. Timothy McVey managed to murder people without paying them for sex. So did Jefferey Dahmer and Albert Fish.

You are factually wrong, insultingly base and pathetically inane in your arguments. Come back when you can justify a single reason for banning prostitution, until then, don't try to involve yourself in something you know nothing about, you only end up looking like a fool.

"About 80% of women in prostitution have been the victim of a rape. It's hard to talk about this because..the experience of prostitution is just like rape. Prostitutes are raped, on the average, eight to ten times per year. They are the most raped class of women in the history of our planet. " (Susan Kay Hunter and K.C. Reed, July, 1990 "Taking the side of bought and sold rape," speech at National Coalition against Sexual Assault, Washington, D.C. ) Other studies report 68% to 70% of women in prostitution being raped (M Silbert, "Compounding factors in the rape of street prostitutes," in A.W. Burgess, ed., Rape and Sexual Assault II, Garland Publishing, 1988; Melissa Farley and Howard Barkan, "Prostitution, Violence, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder," 1998, Women & Health.)

A Canadian Report on Prostitution and Pornography concluded that girls and women in prostitution have a mortality rate 40 times higher than the national average. ( Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution, 1985, Pornography and Prostitution in Canada 350.) In one study, 75% of women in escort prostitution had attempted suicide. Prostituted women comprised 15% of all completed suicides reported by hospitals. (Letter from Susan Kay Hunter, Council for Prostitution Alternatives, Jan 6, 1993, cited by Phyllis Chesler in "A Woman's Right to Self-Defense: the case of Aileen Carol Wuornos," in Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness, 1994, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine.)

78% of 55 women who sought help from the Council for Prostitution Alternatives in 1991 reported being raped an average of 16 times a year by pimps, and were raped 33 times a year by johns. (Susan Kay Hunter, Council for Prostitution Alternatives Annual Report, 1991, Portland, Oregon) 85% of prostitutes are raped by pimps. (Council on Prostitution Alternatives, Portland, 1994)

In a survey we conducted in London (1989-91), 112 (58%) out of 193 women reported previous assault; these women worked in all sectors of the industry, including 57% of indoor and 68% of street workers.

heres some stats


you don't think someone low enough that has to pay for sex, wouldn't put a prostitute in the back of his car, have sex with her and then kick her out and drive off without paying? seriously?







like i said, prostitution isn't as clean cut as its being depicted here in the comments.
but then some of these comments are coming from ignorant teens who think they might need to pay.

If it was legal, regulated and therefore not such a negative, end-of-the-line thing then a lot of the problems you just mentioned would be near-enough non-existent.

legality doesn't stop crimes. also that last stat from london, shows an indication that not all the prostitutes that were assaulted were street workers, and yet they were still assaulted.

Husbands and Wives still assault one another...

There will be assault no matter what, it comes with every profession.

I personally think if we just regulated it with weekly checks, tax it and require the age of 18 or 21 then it should.

If you say, ohh what happens if he gets an STD, if we did checkups a lot of it would be caught, STD's are common and chances are several people you know have them without them even knowing.

Everyone thinks, AIDs, herpies is an STD, the most common form of it...

good luck with trying to get it legal.

If you rape a prostitute, is it considered stealing? :lol:

I don't understand how porn is legal if prostitution isn't. The only difference is one is filmed and one isn't.

Prostitution, what is the difference between that and porn? There really isn't anything different between that except a video camera is involved.

What I agree in is that prostitution should be legal as long as the prostitute gets checked weekly for any diseases, if she/he is clear of such then they may continue their business. If they however catch something and they continue on, then that will be illegal.

Nevada has it down, outside of the Las Vegas limits, they have buildings like so on the outskirts that have prostitutes (They are checked for diseases every couple weeks if I remember correctly). It is a business.

For the people who are caught, I think it should remain a crime if they are paying for sex with an unregistered prostitute.

I'm 16, turning 17 in less than a month, I still have no say in this form of government for another year and a month...