Would you vote to legalize prostitution?

(02-23-2019, 11:28 AM)K9Buck Wrote: Would you vote to legalize prostitution?

4 votes in. 3 normal people....and Hightop.

(02-23-2019, 11:39 AM)Beastdog Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:28 AM)K9Buck Wrote: Would you vote to legalize prostitution?

4 votes in. 3 normal people....and Hightop.

Ha ha.

Nope and not drugs either.  Not the kind of society I want to live in.  We did fine without both for a long time.

Iâ€m not in favor of human trafficking

My knee-jerk libertarian position is to legalize it, but is it really a victim-less situation?  You pass disease onto others, etc...  I mean, how would you enforce a condom requirement?  Knock, knock...  just checking to see if you're wearing your jimmy.  

Just thinking out loud here.

(02-23-2019, 11:53 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: My knee-jerk libertarian position is to legalize it, but is it really a victim-less situation?  You pass disease onto others, etc...  I mean, how would you enforce a condom requirement?  Knock, knock...  just checking to see if you're wearing your jimmy.  

Just thinking out loud here.

My guess is that a professional prostitute is not going to permit several guys to ejaculate inside of them on a daily basis.  It's a DISASTER waiting to happen.  

While I understand your sentiment and, at the risk of sounding crass, are you equally concerned about the amount of sugar that citizens intake daily?  Should we legislate and criminalize that too?  Of course not.

(02-23-2019, 11:57 AM)K9Buck Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:53 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: My knee-jerk libertarian position is to legalize it, but is it really a victim-less situation?  You pass disease onto others, etc...  I mean, how would you enforce a condom requirement?  Knock, knock...  just checking to see if you're wearing your jimmy.  

Just thinking out loud here.

My guess is that a professional prostitute is not going to permit several guys to ejaculate inside of them on a daily basis.  It's a DISASTER waiting to happen.  

While I understand your sentiment and, at the risk of sounding crass, are you equally concerned about the amount of sugar that citizens intake daily?  Should we legislate and criminalize that too?  Of course not.

You can't pass diabetes onto others like VD.  Libertarians are about not harming others.  I'm simply questioning if prostitution is really a victim-less situation.  Is it really?

(02-23-2019, 12:02 PM)ScarletHayes Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:57 AM)K9Buck Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:53 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: My knee-jerk libertarian position is to legalize it, but is it really a victim-less situation?  You pass disease onto others, etc...  I mean, how would you enforce a condom requirement?  Knock, knock...  just checking to see if you're wearing your jimmy.  

Just thinking out loud here.

My guess is that a professional prostitute is not going to permit several guys to ejaculate inside of them on a daily basis.  It's a DISASTER waiting to happen.  

While I understand your sentiment and, at the risk of sounding crass, are you equally concerned about the amount of sugar that citizens intake daily?  Should we legislate and criminalize that too?  Of course not.

You can't pass diabetes onto others like VD.  Libertarians are about not harming others.  I'm simply questioning if prostitution is really a victim-less situation.  Is it really?

Mostly, yes.

(02-23-2019, 11:28 AM)K9Buck Wrote: Would you vote to legalize prostitution?

Yes. I don't believe in punishing consenting adults who are conducting a business transaction.  It's called capitalism.

(02-23-2019, 11:44 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Nope and not drugs either.  Not the kind of society I want to live in.  We did fine without both for a long time.

I thought it was only Liberals that wanted to create a utopian society?  Don't you think society would be better of all the guns were gone?

(02-23-2019, 12:21 PM)P1tchblack Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:28 AM)K9Buck Wrote: Would you vote to legalize prostitution?

Yes. I don't believe in punishing consenting adults who are conducting a business transaction.  It's called capitalism.

You mean like slavery where two consenting adults conduct a business transaction?

(02-23-2019, 12:12 PM)K9Buck Wrote: Mostly, yes.

Married guy goes to a prostitute.  Is that a victim-less scenario?  I can definitely see entertaining the argument that it isn't.  

A guy that isn't married but is bouncing off the walls? ok...  I don't see a huge issue there.  

If you legalized it, or at least decriminalized it, I guess people would self regulate more.  If a dude is married and cheats he would be kicked to the curb by his wife if it were illegal just as well.  

I guess what I'm saying here---as I think this through---is that I would be cool with taking out the criminal element.  That said, not sure I want my society putting on its seal of approval by collecting taxes from it, etc...  Am I making any sense with that?

(02-23-2019, 12:28 PM)ScarletHayes Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 12:12 PM)K9Buck Wrote: Mostly, yes.

Married guy goes to a prostitute.  Is that a victim-less scenario?  I can definitely see entertaining the argument that it isn't.  

A guy that isn't married but is bouncing off the walls? ok...  I don't see a huge issue there.  

If you legalized it, or at least decriminalized it, I guess people would self regulate more.  If a dude is married and cheats he would be kicked to the curb by his wife if it were illegal just as well.  

I guess what I'm saying here---as I think this through---is that I would be cool with taking out the criminal element.  That said, not sure I want my society putting on its seal of approval by collecting taxes from it, etc...  Am I making any sense with that?

I understand your sentiments.  I believe free people should be free to pay for sex without becoming a criminal.  I also believe that it's better for society to take such things out of the dark and out of the wretched hands of bona-fide criminals.

(02-23-2019, 12:23 PM)P1tchblack Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 11:44 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Nope and not drugs either.  Not the kind of society I want to live in.  We did fine without both for a long time.

I thought it was only Liberals that wanted to create a utopian society?  Don't you think society would be better of all the guns were gone?

What does prohibiting prostitution have to do with a utopia?