Sen. Leader Harry Reid Wants To Outlaw Prostitution In Nevada

The Ely Times - elynews.com :: News: Reid asks Legislature to ban all of rural Nevada's brothels

I thought Democrats were all for the rights of women? Apparently that doesn't include their right to choose the oldest profession as their own.

 

It's the cradle to grave mentaility of a benevolent central government knowing what's best for it's citizens.

 

Let me understand this.... Are you guys defending prostitution?

 

I certainly am! Society can't eliminate it, but the more important question to ask is, should we? Adults making a decision to use their assets (pun intended) however they choose is fine by me. I view the concept of paying a sex worker no different than paying any other worker. You're paying for a service. I believe that the business of prostitution should be regulated like any other business, however. Restaurants are required to adhere to health standards, so should sex workers.

 

If a state deems it legal then go for it. I may not agree with it personally but let the states decide.
In reality, this is probably not much more than an attempt by Dirty Harry to shakedown the industry (an industry he has probably benefited from over the years).

 

The problem with the vast majority of the practice of prostitution is that it is the exploitation of women. I'm not talking so much about legal venues like the mustang ranch, even that venue exploits women to some degree even if it is with their consent, but rather the girls that are coerced into prostitution at an early age or brought to this country under the false illusion of a better life and sold into prostitution. I personally think if we decriminalized prostitution and provided health care like they do in places like Amsterdam, I wouldn't object to it so much. It is the criminal element that is involved that keeps the exploitation going.

 

Decriminalize it, tax it, regulate it. Just like any business.

I think the exploitation would almost evaporate if it were decriminalized. I disagree that the women at the Mustang Ranch are exploited. They're free to engage in the business of their own accord and they can leave any time they desire.

 

So, dr moen, you believe a woman has the right to decide whether or not to kill her baby but doesn't have the right to decide under what conditions and with whom she can have sex?

 

Where did I say that?

 

Well, based on your posts here you seem to be against a woman having the choice to engage in prostitution...I believe you called it exploitation. And you have made it abundantly clear in other threads you are a supporter of abortion. Now what?

 

Again, where did I say any such thing? Was it where I said exactly the opposite when I wrote, "I personally think if we decriminalized prostitution and provided health care like they do in places like Amsterdam, I wouldn't object to it so much"? Since the conservative social agenda drives the practice of sex workers underground, it pretty much gets handed to the criminal element on a silver platter much like criminalizing drugs creates the illegal drug trade and the same way the temperance movement in the 1920's created organized crime.

 

Uhm, isn't Harry Reid a liberal? Why in the world would he adhere to a "conservative social agenda" on this issue?

 

Dr moen, it's okay, I would distance myself from such hypocritical statements too.

 

Actually Mr Moen, I think it the women exploiting the men. Just my opinion. Like those poor saps that go after work and pay to see boobs.

 

But you haven't pointed one out yet. Aren't you jumping the gun a bit here? Which statement am I distancing myself from?

 

Dr moen, I see now that you have gone back & edited your comments in post #6. Hmmmmm......

 

Actually I did correct the sentence after Okie pointed it out in red. That post was sent via cell phone and the keyboard/screen is kind of tiny making for a lot on typos. If that was the statement you were referring to, you should have pointed it out.

 

I hope that you didn't mind that I did that, Moen. The way it was written didn't make much sense....

 

Your correction was exactly right.

 

Geezus. How would anyone on the right have any kind of a "non solo" sex life if that were to happen?