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This is largely correct but not something the US's religious right is willing to accept. Decriminalizing prostitution and criminalizing the person doing the "b

This is largely correct but not something the US's religious right is willing to accept. Decriminalizing prostitution and criminalizing the person doing the "buying" in public is the maximum that is viable without encouraging abuse.

jack9 8y ago
Both sides are criminalized in the US
- AFNobody 8y ago
  Which is the problem.
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pitaj 8y ago
There no reason to paint this as a partisan issue. There are plenty of puritans on the left.
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- untog 8y ago
  There are plenty, but there are also definitely a lot more on the Republican side. A majority of self-identified Democrats favor legalization, while a majority of self-identified Republicans are against: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2015/09/01/country-split-legalizing-prostitution https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
- AFNobody 8y ago
  The majority of the left supports decriminalization or legalization as the other commenter pointed out. Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly.
  - tomhoward 8y ago
    > "Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly." The stats to which you refer don't support that dismissal. In that survey, 50% of Dems supported legalisation/decriminalisation (which you'll notice is not quite a majority, or is a narrow one if you ignore the undecideds) and 34% of Republicans supported it. So it's a 16 percentage point difference. Yes there's more support among Democrats, but not so much so that you can dismiss it as a partisan issue. Anecdotally, here in Australia, someone I know very well works in a government policy role administering sex work, and some of the most strident campaigning in favour of re-criminalisation comes from the left. In this state it was a conservative government that legalised it in the early 90s, in the first year they came to power after 10 years of social-democratic government. There's no campaign from the conservative side to re-criminalise it here.

jack9 8y ago

Both sides are criminalized in the US

AFNobody 8y ago
Which is the problem.

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pitaj 8y ago

There no reason to paint this as a partisan issue. There are plenty of puritans on the left.

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untog 8y ago
There are plenty, but there are also definitely a lot more on the Republican side. A majority of self-identified Democrats favor legalization, while a majority of self-identified Republicans are against: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2015/09/01/country-split-legalizing-prostitution https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
AFNobody 8y ago
The majority of the left supports decriminalization or legalization as the other commenter pointed out. Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly.
- tomhoward 8y ago
  > "Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly." The stats to which you refer don't support that dismissal. In that survey, 50% of Dems supported legalisation/decriminalisation (which you'll notice is not quite a majority, or is a narrow one if you ignore the undecideds) and 34% of Republicans supported it. So it's a 16 percentage point difference. Yes there's more support among Democrats, but not so much so that you can dismiss it as a partisan issue. Anecdotally, here in Australia, someone I know very well works in a government policy role administering sex work, and some of the most strident campaigning in favour of re-criminalisation comes from the left. In this state it was a conservative government that legalised it in the early 90s, in the first year they came to power after 10 years of social-democratic government. There's no campaign from the conservative side to re-criminalise it here.