Is it now ‘cool’ to visit prostitutes?

This was on the Ciara Kelly show yesterday. There was the American girl from SWAI - who is a sex worker - you've probably heard her on radio before.

I knew we'd discussed this here before. Scanning back over the thread, my views haven't changed, its not for me, but illegality breeds crime and harm. Legalise, regulate, drive the criminals and traffickers out, help the destitute and drug addicted with services & support and don't have them forced into it.

We've legislated for abortion which, in my mind, is much more morally charged. It's not often I agree with Mick Wallace but I think he was right to raise it. Is there the will to change it or do people think we're better as we are. Sex is a fundamental human need, demand will always exist, what's wrong with safe supply - all we have now is crime & associated problems.
 
Similar arguments have been applied to aspects of drug use. In San Francisco, a needle programme has reduced the number of new HIV infections among heroin users by one per week. It has also made the city incredibly unpleasant for inhabitants and visitors, as you have to step over strung-out junkies and mounds of syringes everywhere. Two million of the five million needles handed out annually are discarded on the streets.
 
It was on Newstalk yesterday because Lily Allen, well know SJW and angry landlord, admitted to using female escorts while on tour. She broke silence on it just before some media organisation ran with in.
 

Is there an equivalent negative by-product of legalisation and regulation of prostitution? At least it would all be happening indoors, no dicarded items on streets, in parks, canals and what not. Not sure demand would increase, or by much, and in any event isnt that a moral choice of the purchaser. If its all consenting adults and healthcare is observed then ...well... let em at it. In fact I recall hearing of a project in Kalgoorlie (mining town near Perth) that legalised brothels and sex assaults decreased - so perhaps it "took the edge off" some of the potential offenders.

San Francisco has always been a homeless capital, mostly for climatic reasons. I've never seen a syringe there - been around it a few times in recent years. But anyways, different point. On the drug use, I think we should leaglise spamspamspam for pretty much all the same reasons - and again I dont partake so no "skin in the game", to choose an unfortunate phrase for this discussion...
 
Ya had to laugh at local news report o the 2 students, she said they slept with 2 prostitutes, don't think there was much sleeping going on.
 
If it takes place without any form of coercion on either party then I have no problem with it.
The fact that human trafficking, slavery by another name, is worth $32 billion a year and of the 25 million people (79% of them are women and girls) in that form of slavery.
Nearly 5 million are sex workers. 79% of those are women and girls.
If you have sex with someone without their freely given consent then you are raping them. That's nearly 5 million people, many of them children, raped on a daily basis.

So, I have no problem with prostitution but I have a big problem with the criminal element which profits from it and there is a strong chance that such criminality will remain in the background if it is legalised. It may just be another cash business for them to wash their dirty month through.
 
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