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wow, sorta unbelievable replies here. You realize this will effectively make the act of loitering for sex acts legal? And this is happening while our cities ar
by Flatcircle 4y ago
wow, sorta unbelievable replies here. You realize this will effectively make the act of loitering for sex acts legal?
And this is happening while our cities are being ravaged by a major drug epidemic.
This will most likely breed more sex workers which no one needs at a time when most stores have help wanted signs.
- __alexs 4y agoDo you need to take illegally acquired controlled substances when you have sex?
- khazhoux 4y agoIf people would rather work street corners than Safeway, maybe we need to fix retail wages?
- Flatcircle 4y agoOh I'd bet Safeway pays much better than prostitution.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoUnskilled prostitution generally pays about four times the going rate for unskilled labor, as far as I've read. This was a cross-cultural finding. Skilled prostitution goes much, much higher than that.
- zthrowaway 4y agoMost of the money generated here is going to a pimp. These women are being abused and exploited for their body. You support more of that?
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoI didn’t read any support in parent’s comment, just earning estimations.
- yonaguska 4y agoUnless you're being sarcastic, you are very wrong. Even on the low end of the pay grade, the benefits of being self employed and able to do drugs on the job outweighs the requirement to show up to work on time and sober at Safeway.
- zthrowaway 4y agoI’m amazed how everyone here are acting as if these prostitutes are entrepreneurs of some kind. They are being manhandled by a pimp and forced to do this shit. Most of them are runaways and are being exploited for their body, and end up overdosing on drugs eventually. Holy fuck people here are so out of touch and have no street knowledge.
- yonaguska 4y agoI don't mean to imply that they aren't being exploited, I've seen it firsthand. But the parent comment making the comparison to being employed at a convenience store is not a fair at all. My point is that many of these women are strung out on drugs, and they've reached a point where even if legal employment was an option, they wouldn't take it because it wouldn't afford them to ability to continue doing drugs.
- Flatcircle 4y agoI couldn’t agree more . It’s amazing to see all these insane comments and downvotes on common sense. Feels very college to me. Classic case of book smarts replacing street smarts. Naive Utopian vibes. There are very bad people in the world unfortunately. Sounds like lots of these commenters don’t know it yet.
- hansbo 4y agoIn Sweden, prostitution is illegal, but not selling sex. Instead, the buyer is the one breaking the law. I think this makes more sense, because the prostitutes will not need to fear reaching out for help to get out of the situation.
- iamtheworstdev 4y agowe can't do that in the US because then it would make the (congress)men the enemy and not the women selling temptation.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoIn the USA, both buying and selling sex is illegal in most jurisdictions.
- sharikous 4y agoThis also makes the whole prostitution business more shady than in fully liberalized models, like Germany. It's basically saying "prostitution is bad and illegal but if you are offering it we won't punish you (wink)". Frankly it seems to me the worst of both worlds. The customer is automatically in a condemned state and can't redeem themselves. Kind of like how sanctions against Russia levied with no clear terms for removing them won't make them stop since you have basically made them your enemy with no honorable agreement possible.