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All these issues -- potential physical and mental problems -- you cite apply to other professions as well. Why treat prostitution any different? Obviously ther

by esarbe 9y ago

All these issues -- potential physical and mental problems -- you cite apply to other professions as well. Why treat prostitution any different? Obviously there's a need for this kind of work. Why not make sure that at least the workers doing this kind of job enjoy the same protection as other workers?

yters 9y ago
Other professions are legitimate needs. Such as soldiers, police, firefighters. A society needs them to function well. Prostitution destroys society. It breaks up families. It leads to fatherless children. It spreads STDs. It teaches men to treat women as sex objects. It denigrates sex in general to pleasure instead of its main purpose of creating the next generation.
- esarbe 9y ago
  Families break apart because the persons involved don't make the necessary effort to uphold the relationships anymore and there are no economical necessities that hold the people involved together. Not because of prostitution. Prostitution (might) spread STDs because there is no regulation and oversight, no health-check mandate for prostitutes (of either gender). All those issues you cite don't really stem from prostitution and making/keeping prostitution illegal will not make them go away.
- yters 9y ago
  Families don't break apart randomly. One of the main reasons is spouses cheating. Even regulated, the number of STD exposures climbs exponentially with prostitution. That is just the unavoidable math of having massive numbers of sex partners.
  - esarbe 9y ago
    Well, then you can ask yourself; what's the reason for spouses cheating? Seriously; prostitution is a symptom, not the cause. With regards to diseases; diseases spread with any physical contact between humans. I still don't think that it would be a good thing to stop having contact. Making prostitution illegal will not make it go away. It has been with us for before we climbed out of the trees, it will be with us long after we've stopped reading words. Making it illegal will just rob the prostitutes of potential protection and safety.

by esarbe 9y ago

yters 9y ago

Other professions are legitimate needs. Such as soldiers, police, firefighters. A society needs them to function well. Prostitution destroys society. It breaks up families. It leads to fatherless children. It spreads STDs. It teaches men to treat women as sex objects. It denigrates sex in general to pleasure instead of its main purpose of creating the next generation.

esarbe 9y ago
Families break apart because the persons involved don't make the necessary effort to uphold the relationships anymore and there are no economical necessities that hold the people involved together. Not because of prostitution. Prostitution (might) spread STDs because there is no regulation and oversight, no health-check mandate for prostitutes (of either gender). All those issues you cite don't really stem from prostitution and making/keeping prostitution illegal will not make them go away.
yters 9y ago
Families don't break apart randomly. One of the main reasons is spouses cheating. Even regulated, the number of STD exposures climbs exponentially with prostitution. That is just the unavoidable math of having massive numbers of sex partners.
- esarbe 9y ago
  Well, then you can ask yourself; what's the reason for spouses cheating? Seriously; prostitution is a symptom, not the cause. With regards to diseases; diseases spread with any physical contact between humans. I still don't think that it would be a good thing to stop having contact. Making prostitution illegal will not make it go away. It has been with us for before we climbed out of the trees, it will be with us long after we've stopped reading words. Making it illegal will just rob the prostitutes of potential protection and safety.