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Isn’t prostitution essentially porn without the cameras? Why ostracize legal prostitution? If porn is allowed, prostitution should be too. Yes, there are issue
by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Isn’t prostitution essentially porn without the cameras? Why ostracize legal prostitution? If porn is allowed, prostitution should be too.
Yes, there are issues of exploitation and licensing. They are at both places - maybe less for porn because it’s not as much in the shadows. Bring sex work out of the shadows. Just normalize it.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Isn’t prostitution essentially porn without the cameras? Why ostracize legal prostitution? If porn is allowed, prostitution should be too. IIRC, porn would be illegal, except the performance aspect gave it First Amendment cover. It might also be significant that porn seems to have traditionally involved a 3rd party paying two people to have sex, so that's arguably not prostitution. It's probably arguably illegal prostitution if one person pays another to sex with them and films it. You can't videotape an illegal act to make it legal.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoLegal hack: Recite poetry while robbing the bank, so the first amendment protects you!
- medstrom 4y agoMaybe if you also bring along a camera crew and declare at the start that this is an art piece you're doing.
- tenebrisalietum 4y ago
- randomdata 4y agoThe camera provides a record of the transaction for tax purposes. Prostituion is much harder to monitor, especially when the buyer also has incentive to pretend that the transaction didn't take place. There are, perhaps, solutions that could be developed to deal the problem but if you are the lawmaker why would you go out of your way to make your job harder?