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Subject: Re: Male vs Female Strippers


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Maria
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Date Posted: 10:23:49 07/04/02 Thu
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: Male vs Female Strippers" on 21:21:21 07/03/02 Wed
 >No, I think that legalising prostitution is what
>protects sex trade workers from HIV and other STDs,
>not to mention the sickos that they will inevitably
>meet up with if they turn tricks for any length of
>time.

Pimping is illegal in the Netherlands. I think if you're going to consider legalized prostitution in the west, that's a better comparison than Asia.

>I am sure you've all heard about Vancouver's sicko,
>Willy Pickton, who has been preying on women in the
>downtown eastside (mostly sex trade workers) for at
>least a few years now (around 50 women are missing or
>confirmed dead).

No, I haven't, but I tend to turn off these kinds of stories lately. They've caught him, I hope.

>The point is, I disagree with prostitution (both
>selling sex and buying it), but it's like drugs--we'll
>never get rid of it, only drive it underground.
>Making it legal and regulated does many positive
>things--you can tax it, you can protect the women, you
>can keep it isolated in a red light district. You
>could argue it would encourage people to either buy or
>sell sex, but I don't buy it. At least not to any
>large degree--certainly the benefits would far
>outweigh that.

ITA. I'm enough of a libertarian to think that the government has no business dictating anything about sex between consenting adults.
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