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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
That's what I wonder, too- the brothels in Nevada seem to be very tightly regulated, but even if every state legalized brothels, there would still be abuse on the streets. I think the US is very divided on what the real "problem" of prostitution is- is it the immorality of sex for money or is it violence against women? I mean, I know what I think the problem is, but as you point out, the way prostitutes are treated by law enforcement and how they are stigmatized in the community speaks to others having more issues with sex than they do with violence.
Al Jazeera America (look! Dell's head just exploded!  Hi, Dell. Teasing you. ) has a thoughtful opinion piece, written after Canada's Supreme Court struck down the laws against prostitution, stating the laws violated women's right to safety:
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinion...utionlaws.html |
right, if so many think it's no big deal and should be legal, why are the women providing this 'service' so stigmatized? i don't think even if it were legal all over that the stigma would go away. this country still has too many hang ups about sex. hell, people still talk about the evils of birth control...and then there was the article i just saw about this country having 400k rape test kits that haven't even been tested.
makes it all the more 'funny' to me to know that once upon a time, brothels were typically church owned and operated.