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Those are nice quotes from Lewis, but the fact remains that he and most other Christians would support criminalizing prostitution. And although moral outrage a
by tryitnow 10y ago
Those are nice quotes from Lewis, but the fact remains that he and most other Christians would support criminalizing prostitution.
And although moral outrage against sex may not be in the teachings of Jesus, it's certainly in the teachings of Paul and other canonical early Christian writers.
- slowmovintarget 10y agoI believe prostitution is morally wrong. I believe making it illegal is ineffective. I believe the correct legal thing to do is to criminalize only the buying side of the transaction. If you pay for it, you are victimizing, and that should be criminal. If you provide, that's legal, but not moral.
- Mz 10y agoIf you actually read the article, criminalizing the purchase makes it riskier for the sex worker. They are asked to go meet people in more remote areas because the johns want to avoid the cops. This means some of them get murdered, assaulted, etc. Decriminilizing it is about improving safety for sex workers. I think that is where our questions of morality should focus. People are going to continue to have sexual needs. Prostitution gets called the oldest profession for a reason: Even certain monkey/ape species will trade sex for goods (like food). Making it illegal doesn't make it go away. It just makes it riskier and that risk disproportionately negatively impacts the women doing sex work.
- slowmovintarget 10y agoI thought decriminalizing it was about reducing it. For that, the Nordic model actually works. Full decriminalization doesn't. http://mic.com/articles/112814/here-s-what-s-happened-in-sweden-16-years-since-decriminalizing-prostitution http://mic.com/articles/112814/here-s-what-s-happened-in-swe...
- jessaustin 10y agoI ripped Paul's bullshit out of my bible.