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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:06 AM Original message |
Should prostitution be legalized? |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. I think it should be legalized and pimping should be outlawed |
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progmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. agreed. |
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Melodybe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 11:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
63. Also agreed, why not make it safe and legal? |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Perhaps. But, without pimps, who is going to make the environment safe? |
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progmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. pimps don't make the environment safe |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Who will make the environment safe? |
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progmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. who makes the environment safe in any place of business? |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The owner, and the police. |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:16 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. And if prostitution were legal |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:18 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. No more than the convenience store clerk. |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:25 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. And as with most other high risk job |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:12 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Women could protect themselves if they didn't have to be underground |
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Sannum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. exactly |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 02:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
57. really? |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
2. welcome to "Complicated Issue, Arizona", population: you |
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CarbonDate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, it's a victimless crime. |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
5. Criminalizing it benefits no one, particularly women. n/t |
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complain jane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
7. Prostitution takes place on so many levels already. |
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evlbstrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
11. It seems to work in Nevada. |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. You mean the pimp, I mean brothel owner, gets no money? |
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evlbstrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:17 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I think they are state controlled. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 02:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
58. Nope, they operate as partnerships (I've been to one) |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:21 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. There's a huge difference between legal brothel owners and pimps. |
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GirlinContempt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
36. You mean every dime |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
15. Yes. |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Whew! |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:32 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. When you're a 12-year-old child in Bosnia or Mexico |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Minors? |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:37 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. What about adults? |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:45 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I thought we were talking about the meatpacking industry? |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:48 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Very clever, Floog. |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:49 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I believe you. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
18. Yes, but pimping needs to be penalized strictly. |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
22. In case you're interrested... |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:30 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Same approach here in Switzerland. |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:35 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. agreed |
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GirlinContempt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:01 AM Response to Reply #22 |
44. I think that |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
26. Legalize it. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
31. Legalize it..... |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
35. only if you don't mind your daughter, wife, sister, brother, son making |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:52 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Actually, I wouldn't mind. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:54 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Oh man Hiedi, you took all the sex out of it by saying |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:00 AM Response to Reply #39 |
43. It sort of takes the moralizing out the equation, too, |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:06 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Yep, |
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GirlinContempt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:53 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Wha? |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:59 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Choice is the thing. |
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GirlinContempt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:02 AM Response to Reply #41 |
46. In short |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:05 AM Response to Reply #46 |
48. I ain't afraida no reds! |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:03 AM Response to Reply #35 |
47. Disagree. |
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Fiona (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 03:22 AM Response to Reply #35 |
59. I've never found that argument very convincing... |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
40. Floogeldyism? |
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Clarkie1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
42. It should but it needs to regulated |
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Corey_Baker08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
45. I Vote To Legalize Marijuana First... |
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In_The_Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
50. yes |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:23 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. U got a bit of a libertarian streak in you? |
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In_The_Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:29 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. earlier this week I was called a highly skilled propagandist |
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Floogeldy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 11:45 PM Response to Reply #52 |
62. Me too! |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
51. legalized ,regulated, and taxed |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
54. You mean its not legal? |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
55. Yes |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 02:18 AM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Or painting pictures or running a company |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
60. Yes |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-05 04:34 AM Response to Original message |
61. Yes. Consenting adults and all that. I don't know how you would get pimps |
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Scout1071 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-05 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
64. Yes. |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-05 12:13 AM Original message |
dupe post. |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-05 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
65. Simple . Yes. |
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