I struggle with this. For one thing I think that certain rigid attitudes towards sex are necessary. I mean, look at the UK (really look) and teen pregnancy. People get more open about sex and then KABAM! more horrid little 13 year olds spawning. There isn't necessarily a cause and effect there but the correlation with era change is difficult to ignore.
Tolerance often sacrifices good sense. There are actual lobbyist groups of people who don't believe that single teen mothers on benefits should be socially penalized. What?!
I suffer under the belief that the US and UK criminal justice systems are not designed to catch every crime evar. Much of it leans towards obvious social deviance, which in this case would mean streetwalkers. I'm cynical enough to believe that getting prostitutes off the streets actually means less police forces on the beat. Good motivation for a change in laws, isn't it? Less money spent on law enforcement...
Even if the UK went the whole hog and just said 'hooray! Sex for money in your house is legal!' There will always be a black market. Just like counterfeit DVDs/CDs or the illegal gun trade in the US, there will be a dirty sideline. I'd hazard a guess and say that the black market would be cheaper because it's less regulated.
It isn't to say it would take most customers but those poor little stupid Albanians who keep believing that free holidays exist would still be imported into Birmingham. Some forms of prostitution can be controlled but the stupid and those who take advantage will always exist.
I'm a big fan of the status quo or... alternatively.... for Britian to get its economy back by exporting whores who speak the Queen's English. Now there is an international market just waiting to happen. Who needs financial services?
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Tolerance often sacrifices good sense. There are actual lobbyist groups of people who don't believe that single teen mothers on benefits should be socially penalized. What?!
I suffer under the belief that the US and UK criminal justice systems are not designed to catch every crime evar. Much of it leans towards obvious social deviance, which in this case would mean streetwalkers. I'm cynical enough to believe that getting prostitutes off the streets actually means less police forces on the beat. Good motivation for a change in laws, isn't it? Less money spent on law enforcement...
Even if the UK went the whole hog and just said 'hooray! Sex for money in your house is legal!' There will always be a black market. Just like counterfeit DVDs/CDs or the illegal gun trade in the US, there will be a dirty sideline. I'd hazard a guess and say that the black market would be cheaper because it's less regulated.
It isn't to say it would take most customers but those poor little stupid Albanians who keep believing that free holidays exist would still be imported into Birmingham. Some forms of prostitution can be controlled but the stupid and those who take advantage will always exist.
I'm a big fan of the status quo or... alternatively.... for Britian to get its economy back by exporting whores who speak the Queen's English. Now there is an international market just waiting to happen. Who needs financial services?