I'm gonna suprise a few people, Hermann for example, perhaps juan aswell, but prostitution in the UK is actually LEGAL....really, it is. HOWEVER, the act of streetwalking and of the pimp or indeed kerb-crawling is not.
Prostitution - legalise it to avoid more Picktons
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Even if prostitution was legalized, there would still be "some" who wouldn't fit into the legal scene,
so they would be somewhere outside the "law", and they would be the ones that would have ended up at"Pickton's" farm.
When people become "killing" animals like Pickton, they will always find their victims.
so they would be somewhere outside the "law", and they would be the ones that would have ended up at"Pickton's" farm.
When people become "killing" animals like Pickton, they will always find their victims.
I agree totally with Tracy, there are several reasons to argue for legalised prostitution ranging from protecting the working women, ensuring they have regular health checks for their benefit (which will also protect not so much their customers, but their customers poor unaware wives or girlfriends!). It will also mean almost all working girls can be moved off the street (just as in Europe) which has the effect of cleaning up some of the city areas affected.
I agree that the Robert Picktons of this world will always find some poor unsuspecting soul, so this arguement for legalisation may not stand, but if at least some of these girls can be protected by legalisation why are we living in the past and continue outlawing it?
As a side note, there are many cities in Europe were legalised Red Light areas exist (Liege and Brussels in Belgium to name two) and these areas although they do have the unfortunate "sex window shopping" type atmosphere, they are in general much cleaner in comparison to red light districts in countries where this practise is outlawed.
Let's make it a real profession. Legalize it. Make it a public job. Proper training. Good pay. Benefits. Then we can also expect they can't turn anyone away. Like nurses or teachers or others they will work with whoever comes. Give us a chance to offer seniors and the disabled lots of vouchers. And we'll get rid of this idea they're somehow special because a certain segment of our society is so demanding of their service. And all those high class hooke*s out there will have to join the general trade or face stiff fines. Among other things, of course.
Remember that most hooker in Canada are not making the road. They are ESCORT. They have a driver and they wait for a call. Also, even if the prostitution is legalize, some of them will make the road ANYWAY.
Exactly!
Legalizing prostitution won't solve the world's problems but it will reduce the murders of young women, I am sure of that.
Prostitution needs to be regulated. It is time for Canada to modernize. In Vancouver east they pushed out the prostitutes by harassing the police to get the prostitutes out of their neighbourhood. Thirty years ago prostitutes used to ply their trade on Georgia street in front of the Georgia Hotel, now they are long gone from there. The police and the public have been pushing prostitutes to different streets in Vancouver.
The police and politicians will do what people want.
Imagine if lazy cops, walked the beat so prostitutes and johns could not talk to each other. The streets would be safer for all women.
Prostitution needs to be regulated. It is time for Canada to modernize. In Vancouver east they pushed out the prostitutes by harassing the police to get the prostitutes out of their neighbourhood. Thirty years ago prostitutes used to ply their trade on Georgia street in front of the Georgia Hotel, now they are long gone from there. The police and the public have been pushing prostitutes to different streets in Vancouver.
The police and politicians will do what people want.
Imagine if lazy cops, walked the beat so prostitutes and johns could not talk to each other. The streets would be safer for all women.
this explains why you can easily arrange a call girl by looking one up in the yellow pages?
Was that a joke?, because if you check your local newspaper, you'll find loads of escorts offering discreet services. The police know EXACTLY what they actually do, but because it's between 2 consenting adults and he or she doesnt directly advertise it, it's completely legal.
Honest, a lot of people fail to understand that prostitution in the UK is already legal. The thing that makes them think it ISNT is because of all the laws and side issues surrounding it. Kind of like saying "your allowed to smoke, but not out on the street and your not allowed to buy it from a shop....see what Ii mean?
not joking. it always seemed weird that people were allowed to advertise something which i thought was illegal. i was exclaiming that you had explained an apparent mystery
Amsterdam is a beautiful city with a progressive attitude towards the idea that men want sex enough to pay for it (something about the oldest profession in the world), so provide the service with full safety, security and quaterly medical check-ups. The red light district is away from mainstream traffic, people, tourists, shopping, museums and normal life. Anyone that thinks women sitting in windows under red lights is "ugly and sick" should know better than to venture into the area. It is, after all, to the East of the train station and there aren't exactly signs with directions of "two for one happy hour, drug bars and red light district". You actually have to make an effort to find the area.
I agree wholeheartedly that prostitution should be legalized. At the very least, it eliminates the pimp and permits women to keep the money they earn.
Legalizing prostitution doesn't eliminate the criminal, it eliminates the victim. Prostitutes have to sneak around to get in vehicles with total strangers. If they don't sneak around while presenting themselves as victims, they will be arrested and in a sense victimized by society. Make it legal, give them a safe place to ply their trade ... stop leaving the prostitutes in the victim category.
The type of people that go to prostitutes are everyday guys ... and we all know it. The prostitutes are, too often, women hard on their luck and desperate to make a few dollars any way they can, but they are not bad apples any more than the average customer is a bad apple.
Legalizing prostitution doesn't eliminate murder, it eliminates the most obvious and most easily abducted victim.
The fact remains that Pickton befriended prostitutes outside of their work. He invited them to his farm for parties and it was there that they were murdered, not in the process of providing sexual services to a customer. Even if prostitution were legal in Vancouver, these women would still have been murdered by Pickton because they mistook him for a friend.
The mob used to run the numbers racket and now the gov't collects all the dough through lotteries and casinos. Now it is time for the gov't to run prostitution and make some money off this ancient business.
Yup, and we'll set up college courses for training. Better still allow early entry in high school for promising candidates. If you're going to make it a profession treat it with the respect professions are due. Scholarships should be targeted to those students achieving the highest scores. If necessary create apprenticeships. Let's get on with it. A career is a career.