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> traffic people, child sex slaves Mostly the result of outdated laws preventing legal prostitution. By no means do I intend to defend cartels, but if you rem

by debacle 11y ago

> traffic people, child sex slaves Mostly the result of outdated laws preventing legal prostitution. By no means do I intend to defend cartels, but if you remove their financial incentive to exist, they will shrink or disappear altogether.

benologist 11y ago
Legalizing prostitution won't disempower them anymore than legalizing drugs will - they will prey on some other group, or the same group, or sell sex slaves alongside legal enterprise, or anything else they think of that can unfairly extract money from society. We could never legalize the full extent of their activities either - murder, extortion, kidnapping, slavery etc. We've had legal brothels in my city (Brisbane, Australia) for decades and Wikipedia's estimating 90% of prostitution there is unregulated or illegal. It just co-exists alongside a legal market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia#Queensland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia#Quee...
- csseinpoont 11y ago
  Actually it will, you are wrong. Regulating something so that you may as well make it illegal isn't really the same as decriminalizing the activity. Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are tremendously safer for those turning tricks.
  - benologist 11y ago
    Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are safer for the people working within that legal framework, not the ones coerced into working outside it - I live in Costa Rica where it is also legal but there are still enslaved adults and children coerced into selling sex, Amsterdam has illegal prostitution coexisting alongside women in windows too. That's examples of illicit sex industries alongside legal ones on three different continents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands#Human_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherland... But let's say you are right. Prostitution globally is completely legalized and somehow there is no illicit demand for boys and girls, cheaper rates etc. How does that stop the cartels from making money in hundreds of other ways? It is just one line of business, they have plenty more and can always invent new ones.

by debacle 11y ago

benologist 11y ago

Legalizing prostitution won't disempower them anymore than legalizing drugs will - they will prey on some other group, or the same group, or sell sex slaves alongside legal enterprise, or anything else they think of that can unfairly extract money from society. We could never legalize the full extent of their activities either - murder, extortion, kidnapping, slavery etc. We've had legal brothels in my city (Brisbane, Australia) for decades and Wikipedia's estimating 90% of prostitution there is unregulated or illegal. It just co-exists alongside a legal market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia#Queensland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia#Quee...

csseinpoont 11y ago
Actually it will, you are wrong. Regulating something so that you may as well make it illegal isn't really the same as decriminalizing the activity. Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are tremendously safer for those turning tricks.
- benologist 11y ago
  Countries with reasonable prostitution laws are safer for the people working within that legal framework, not the ones coerced into working outside it - I live in Costa Rica where it is also legal but there are still enslaved adults and children coerced into selling sex, Amsterdam has illegal prostitution coexisting alongside women in windows too. That's examples of illicit sex industries alongside legal ones on three different continents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands#Human_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherland... But let's say you are right. Prostitution globally is completely legalized and somehow there is no illicit demand for boys and girls, cheaper rates etc. How does that stop the cartels from making money in hundreds of other ways? It is just one line of business, they have plenty more and can always invent new ones.