Twoply 0 #1 January 22, 2009 Why? And don't say "Because the law says it is." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #2 January 22, 2009 Because they can't tax it.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #3 January 22, 2009 Actually if you want the real answer (the way I believe it to be) It's because back in the day there was no way to prevent spreading disease so they tried to crack down on prostitution as a way to prevent plagues and outbreaks.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Twoply 0 #4 January 22, 2009 That's a hell of a good answer and one I'd believe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #5 January 22, 2009 Actually its more of the good old morality police. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 892 #6 January 22, 2009 Yep. Morality and religious reasons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #7 January 22, 2009 post deleted when I noticed we were at the bonfire. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #8 January 22, 2009 It is interesting that the product can be given away legally. But it becomes illegal when it is paid for. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #9 January 22, 2009 Haven't a clue. Don't think it should be illegal. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #10 January 22, 2009 QuoteIt is interesting that the product can be given away legally. But it becomes illegal when it is paid for. Unless there is a camera, then it's porn. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #11 January 22, 2009 Quote Unless there is a camera, then it's porn. And a signed contract of some sort, if I've been told correctly. Funny what's protected by freedom of speech, including nude dancing.If I have my history right, prostitution was legal in most towns and states until the end of the 1800's. The Victorian Era mores in our country brought a call for legislation against the oldest profession. The argument that you can't tax it is invalid. In certain counties in Nevada, prostitution is legal, and quite well taxed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #12 January 22, 2009 Quote Funny what's protected by freedom of speech, including nude dancing. "You Yankees are so silly about matters of the heart. Don't you know that women are the only works of art?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The111 1 #13 January 22, 2009 Quote It is interesting that the product can be given away legally. But it becomes illegal when it is paid for. Even more interesting that taping it and showing it to millions makes it legal again. www.WingsuitPhotos.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conundrum 1 #14 January 22, 2009 QuoteBecause they can't tax it. That is absolutely the reason. Same reason they made real money online poker illegal as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,465 #15 January 22, 2009 Hi Nightingale, +1 as there is no reason in my mind why it shouldn't be legal. Works pretty good in Europe, just make sure you ask to see their health card. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Txflier 0 #16 January 22, 2009 some ugly hosewives banned together and made it illegal just like the prohibition bitches. They couldn't get laid when there men were drunk because they were at the whore houses. I'm not the rope totin charlie Bronson wanna be that's getting us fucking lost. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
No_Phear 0 #17 January 22, 2009 There is a really good show on the history channel once in a while about just that thing... Tact is not my specialty..... Dirty Sanchez #453 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
No_Phear 0 #18 January 22, 2009 QuoteWhy? And don't say "Because the law says it is." Excerpt from the History channel web site Quote Prostitution in the U.S. Beginning about 1910, religious and civic organizations in the U.S. developed a nationwide campaign against both the immorality of prostitution and its relationship to venereal disease. On the federal level, Congress passed the White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act, 1910) forbidding the interstate transport of women and girls for immoral purposes. On the local level, many antiprostitution laws were passed. Some laws reflected the belief that prostitutes were misguided, coerced unfortunates who needed rehabilitation and protection from procurers. Others represented the view that prostitutes were morally or mentally inferior human beings. Although both kinds of laws still exist, the latter type is enforced today. Prostitution in the U.S. in the late 20th century takes various forms. Some prostitutes, or “call girls,” operate out of their own apartments and maintain a list of regular customers. Some follow convention circuits or work in certain resort areas, such as Las Vegas, Nev., where demand for their services is high. Others work in so-called massage parlors, a newer version of the old-time brothel. The majority are “streetwalkers,” soliciting, or being solicited by, customers on city streets. Increasing numbers are young runaways to cities who turn to the streets for survival. Because the statutes are enforced in such a way as to punish overtness and visibility rather than any specific act, almost all of the prostitutes arrested each year are streetwalkers. Customers, although legally culpable, are rarely arrested. Many prostitutes are managed by men known as pimps, who occasionally act as procurers and who usually take much of the money earned by the women in their “stables.” For the prostitute, the pimp often takes the place of a husband or father figure. He provides some measure of protection, arranges for bail when necessary, and often forms emotional attachments with the women who work for him. ... A Worldwide Social Problem. Prostitution exists almost everywhere; in 1985 a revival of the practice was even noted in China, where emphasis on equality between the sexes combined with government repression seemed to have eliminated the profession. The enforced prostitution of minors has become a focus of worldwide concern. A UN report in the early 1990s estimated that India had 2 million women in prostitution, of whom about 400,000 were below 18 years of age. The World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in 1996, focused attention on the estimated 1 million children who enter the sex trade each year, many as the result of coercion. The U.S. remains one of the few countries with laws against prostitution. In other nations, criminal laws seek instead to deal with the social problems of prostitution through control of public solicitation and restriction of those who would coerce and exploit prostitutes or force children into prostitution. The prevalence of the HIV virus, which causes ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (q.v.), among prostitutes has caused renewed concern about the problem of prostitution in recent years. J.J., JENNIFER JAMES, Ph.D. Tact is not my specialty..... Dirty Sanchez #453 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #19 January 22, 2009 'fucked if I know. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gregpso 1 #20 January 22, 2009 Bloody hell here in melb Australia its perfectly legal in licencsed brothels. (not legal for street walkers) Yes the girls pay tax have medical checks and condoms of course. The owners have strong crimainal record checks. No one even thinks about it anymore its just a fact of life. There are even brothels in alot of suburbs (not in housing areas ) The local neswpaper even carries adds. $120 for 45 minutes. (never mentions sex but everyone knows what they mean.) It does society a service men go and pay for it.. the girls earn money they are consenting pretty civilised I think and NO I have not been to one but have plenty of single friends who go. Prob about time the USA went legal but I doubt whether you folks (with the strong religious right) could get the law change up. Good luck with Pres Obama I hope it goes well for him and you.I tend to be a bit different. enjoyed my time in the sport or is it an industry these days ?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Txflier 0 #21 January 22, 2009 Quote Quote Why? And don't say "Because the law says it is." Excerpt from the History channel web site Quote Prostitution in the U.S. Beginning about 1910, religious and civic organizations in the U.S. developed a nationwide campaign against both the immorality of prostitution and its relationship to venereal disease. On the federal level, Congress passed the White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act, 1910) forbidding the interstate transport of women and girls for immoral purposes. On the local level, many antiprostitution laws were passed. Some laws reflected the belief that prostitutes were misguided, coerced unfortunates who needed rehabilitation and protection from procurers. Others represented the view that prostitutes were morally or mentally inferior human beings. Although both kinds of laws still exist, the latter type is enforced today. Prostitution in the U.S. in the late 20th century takes various forms. Some prostitutes, or “call girls,” operate out of their own apartments and maintain a list of regular customers. Some follow convention circuits or work in certain resort areas, such as Las Vegas, Nev., where demand for their services is high. Others work in so-called massage parlors, a newer version of the old-time brothel. The majority are “streetwalkers,” soliciting, or being solicited by, customers on city streets. Increasing numbers are young runaways to cities who turn to the streets for survival. Because the statutes are enforced in such a way as to punish overtness and visibility rather than any specific act, almost all of the prostitutes arrested each year are streetwalkers. Customers, although legally culpable, are rarely arrested. Many prostitutes are managed by men known as pimps, who occasionally act as procurers and who usually take much of the money earned by the women in their “stables.” For the prostitute, the pimp often takes the place of a husband or father figure. He provides some measure of protection, arranges for bail when necessary, and often forms emotional attachments with the women who work for him. ... A Worldwide Social Problem. Prostitution exists almost everywhere; in 1985 a revival of the practice was even noted in China, where emphasis on equality between the sexes combined with government repression seemed to have eliminated the profession. The enforced prostitution of minors has become a focus of worldwide concern. A UN report in the early 1990s estimated that India had 2 million women in prostitution, of whom about 400,000 were below 18 years of age. The World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in 1996, focused attention on the estimated 1 million children who enter the sex trade each year, many as the result of coercion. The U.S. remains one of the few countries with laws against prostitution. In other nations, criminal laws seek instead to deal with the social problems of prostitution through control of public solicitation and restriction of those who would coerce and exploit prostitutes or force children into prostitution. The prevalence of the HIV virus, which causes ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (q.v.), among prostitutes has caused renewed concern about the problem of prostitution in recent years. J.J., JENNIFER JAMES, Ph.D. Quote blah blah blah. because women didn't like there husbands getting sex elswhere. because then they couldn't have the pussy power. oh and gays are spreading diseases too. and are immoral. I think we should ban that as well. by the way don't take my posts serious. I'm not the rope totin charlie Bronson wanna be that's getting us fucking lost. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #22 January 22, 2009 Quote Hi Nightingale, +1 as there is no reason in my mind why it shouldn't be legal. Works pretty good in Europe, just make sure you ask to see their health card. JerryBaumchen +2 Legalize both prostitution and drugs. In this economy we could use the new source of taxable income. Turn all of those vice cops and DEA into tax enforcers.Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kj126 0 #23 January 22, 2009 But it is legal, They have the Bunny ranch out in nevada right. Wonder how they get by with it when no one else can.I Am Sofa King We Todd Did!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #24 January 22, 2009 QuoteWhy? And don't say "Because the law says it is."in my country it's not illegal. Wanna come ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #25 January 22, 2009 Quote Quote Why? And don't say "Because the law says it is." in my country it's not illegal. Wanna come ? even streetworkers are not illegal. only problem is doing the job without a work-visa.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
