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Update: ok so this is about not prosecuting the prostitutes? That's a good thing to stop doing I think, and a dumb thing to ever have done I think. What can ma

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > What can make sense is that it would be illegal to buy sex (but ok to sell). Otherwise, if attacking the prostitutes, the legal system hurts the ones it was supposed to help The prohibition of prostitution was never to protect prostitutes, who were viewed as the both immoral actors and temptors of others into immorality. Its true that a modern rationalization of maintaining the prohibition of prostitution is that it is a tool to protect people from being victimized by being compelled or misled into becoming prostitutes, but that’s more of an attempt to sell the policy to people who would reject the original premise by people who are personally invested in that premise but recognize that others are not than anything else.
  • cutemonster 6y ago
    > The prohibition of prostitution was never to protect prostitutes What was it about? It was about punishing the > immoral actors and temptors of others (from the lawmakers point of view, at the time) ? Where I am, it's different, in that the laws are meant to help those people (hence, legal to sell, but not to buy, around here)