Reply #209: You're mixing up the issues here --

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And, of course, speaking solely for myself --

I've always thought that legalizing prostitution was the way to go --

And/or that no prostitute should ever be arrested without also arresting the John.

And I probably still think that -- HOWEVER --

as we look at the Drug Trade, we understand that it continues on because elites are profiting

from it -- at the highest levels -- and, yes -- that our courts and justice systems have been

completely corrupted by the exploitation and profits. Needless to say all government officials

and agencies.

And we have long recognized the involvement of organized crime in prostitution and that it

exists only through corruption of government - same as drugs.

However, I think we are far from having fully discussed this matter of legalization --

Are we going to protect every female prostitute and male prostitute who opens a business as

we protect banks, and the frankfurter guy on the corner under the umbrella?

Maybe their earnings will be so high that they can go the way elites go -- hire your own

plane/airport and security?


THIS, however, mixes in another issue --

If there's an adult, consensual activity that they find personally immoral and objectionable and that they can find anecdotes of abuses, they immediately demand to use the justice system to remedy the problem. No matter that better remedies exist. No matter that focusing on counseling and better regulation of the activity are all better remedies, as history has shown. They still demand that the actvity be declared illegal which just introduces a dark, criminal element into the activity.

I don't think that DU is full of sexual prudes. And, certainly don't think that every prostitute

who is in the business -- or the porn business - is there of their own free will.

That would be hugely naive.