Do you support legal prostitution?

Yes. Because it’s going to happen regardless of legality, and legalization affords workers and customers benefits and protections they won’t have otherwise.

Of course.
Everyone sells their body and its functions for money.
From the garbage collector, to the banker.
What does it matter that sex workers put things in their orifices?
Everyone is a prostitute.

For once I agree with @Darth_Algar. It actually ends up safer for everyone with laws in place to regulate it, healthwise and pimp wise. But even in the Netherlands only about 4% are LEGAL prostitutes, so the worry is trafficking will increase.

Yes, for many of the reasons already stated above.

Yes.

Yep.

Sure, if it is legal it can be regulated and the workers given regular health checks. I think it would also reduce trafficking and abuse of women.

I favor it, but I wouldn’t say I support it. That is, I agree with the idea (under stated conditions), but I’m not taking any action to promote it.

Yes

I’m with Darth.

Like legalizing marijuana (and with legal abortions), it has the potential to eradicate much of the danger of the illegal versions that thrive when it’s illegal. In the case of sex workers, it creates a “market” for vicious pimps and sex slavery, and all sorts of other problems.

Legalized, it also enables legal sexual therapy work, which is a whole other sort of thing that can be very helpful.

I do. It would be a lot safer for the people who are in that trade. Everybody already said that.

Not yet, but over time it could be slowly phased in. I do approve of legalized cuddling. Prostitution is partially legalized in Canada and brothels in Texas. Don’t quote me exactly I just overheard on the news.

@RedDeerGuy1 LOL @ legalized cuddling. If you want more cuddles, you might try having a top made that says “legalize cuddling” on it.

@RedDeerGuy1
big snakes like to cuddle.

@RedDeerGuy1 Have you tried the cuddling groups? I saw a documentary and it kind of blew my mind a little bit, but it said it’s actually health to touch and be touched in a non-intimate way, and many people are NOT getting enough ‘touch’ since they’re getting married later in life. Pretty interesting.

@KNOWITALL No. I would be to embarrassed to go to one.

@RedDeerGuy1

It’s Nevada that has the legal brothels (though not in Las Vegas). In the US there’s actually no federal law prohibiting prostitution, it’s an issue left to the individual states (like alcohol sales). Thus far every state in the Union prohibits it except Nevada.

Yes. It’s a service. You pay for sex one way or the other anyways.

I live in Nevada; prostitution is not legal in the most populated counties (so Washoe, where I live, is not included), but it is legal in the rural areas, and there are some brothels outside Reno. Though I have no intention of ever patronizing one, I do not oppose brothels being legal where states and counties decide they should be.

I don’t think I want it legalized because with legalization comes all sorts of rules and regulations. What I would like to see is it decriminalized and any reference to it as an illegal act removed from the books.

What’s the problem with it being regulated?

@RedDeerGuy1 @Darth_Algar is correct. Prostitution is illegal under Texas law, as is soliciting sex for money and promoting prostitution. For a state that prides itself on its rugged individualism we have an astounding number of laws that restrict what a person does or doesn’t do.
Anyway, the last, or at least the most famous, bordello in Texas was called The Chicken Ranch located just outside of La Grange. It was the subject of a ZZ Top song La Grange (one of their better), a great musical that played Broadway called Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and a crappy but somewhat amusing movie of the same title that starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Partons.
Its location central to both Austin and Houston meant it was close enough to enjoy clientele from both cities, some of whom had a lot of political influence, as well as locals. It was also a tradition that the football players from Texas A&M would frequent the establishment on a regular basis, sometimes as a reward for a great game.
Anyway, back in the early 70’s some asshole newsman named Marvin Zindler decided to make a big production about it (probably hoping to capitalize on in personally and he did). and got local holy rollers on their high horse and succeeded in closing the place down. Now please understand that the presence of the Chicken Ranch was not a surprise to these folks, it had been in business in the same location since at least 1905 but once it hit the spotlight they had no choice but to be affronted and vocally so.
It makes an interesting read if you feel so inclined.

@Darth_Algar I am thinking about what happened to pot in those few states that legalized it. All kinds of hoops to jump through in order to get government approval for your business, exorbitant operating costs associated with distribution, delivery and “public safety” and high (excuse the pun) taxes and fees that drive the cost up for the consumer.
If it is not legalized but not illegal then these added burdens do not come into effect.

Just let a person be.

Leave it to America to make sex illegal!

^Land of the free…

@rojo

However decriminalized but not regulated doesn’t make at any safer for the workers or clientele.

I agree with @Darth_Algar. It just means no one goes to jail.

Legalized means the government give you permission to do something
Decriminalized mean the government NOW gives you permission to do something they said you couldn’t do.

I have no problem with regulation but the devil is in the details. It is ok to say require regular medical exams for prostitutes to make sure you are healthy and not infecting your clientele. It is NOT ok to require medical exams AND demand that the person pay a fee in order to practice their trade.

Why don’t you think it’s OK to require medical exams? It’s like any business. Most of them require drug screening. And the “fee” is taxes.
To me it’s a win win situation.

I DO think there should be, I just don’t think I should have to gain government permission to be a prostitute by paying someone a fee.

What is this fee you speak of?

No!
The failure of the society, me and you, politics, social security, health care and taking care of one and another. One should never come to the point where selling your body for money and survival is the only way.

I do not support prostitution. I find it offensive that it may be legal, because “legal” means it is okay. I do not support “legal prostitution”.

@jazzjeppe In a perfect world no one should have to sell their body, but in the real world sometimes you get reduced to it, although many girls don’t consider it being “reduced.” They don’t mind.
In a perfect world no one should have to file bankruptcy because of medical bills.
But that isn’t the real world we live in.

Besides, it’s just sex, man. What’s the big deal?

Everyone sells their body.

^^^^ Yep. In one way or another. Melania Trump is a good example.

I agree with @ragingloli . We are all whores and sell our body. Some their mind, some their dexterity with their hands and shop tools, some use other body parts. No difference.

@jazzjeppe

Why shouldn’t it be ok? Why should adults not have the liberty to do as they wish with their bodies?

I have a feeling that was a one hit wonder.