Comments on: Legalise prostitution now!

By: edmont

edmont — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:48:01 +0000

Legalising this, nationalising that. Women’s bodies are marketed and exploited the world over, formally and informally. Have been for centuries, and will of course continue to be so. It is sad how an educated women who knows so many laywers, (intellectual vermilion outhouse), can get caught up mindlessly in the doctrine spewed by the many who profit by the belief that a woman’s body is a commodity. How many young prostitutes do you know?
How many old one’s do you know? The industry is racked with grief stricken, tear hardened women who do what they do for mostly all the wrong heart wrenching reasons. But believe as you will, that you are defending the rights of women. The 48 year old lady who’s still on the beat. The sad, world weary 10 year old who’s selling herself. Advocating the legalisation, enslavement and continual grooming of more young women to the world’s oldest traditional female occupation.
Good Going Girl!

By: Van Ber

Van Ber — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:12:49 +0000

I don’t think that drawing a comparison between these two professions is naive at all! It makes me wonder what it is that degrades the act of the woman who goes out on the street to feed her child and worships the act of the dr. who works for the same reason…

It’s not the act / it’s not the reason – so?
 she charges: like the good dr. charges for healing (in a perfectly moral kind society that would be free too surely.)
 a ‘special’ act should be shared between lovers – well I’m sure the good dr. had at least 1 one-night stand!
 she charges for something that should be ‘special’ (like when my ex would only sleep with me when I kept the rules). Plus healing is pretty special.

Where is the sense in this moral judgement???
She breaks up families – nope (she’s not the one in the relationship).
She’s easily available – sure, so? (go speak to business – a very simple marketing strategy: supply / demand).
Ah … it’s degrading to woman. Oh really! Sex is degrading? Giving it away is degrading? Selling it is degrading? And who are you to decide what degrades me – my hungry child? Deserter husband? Lost job? Dreams? Perhaps it’s simply your moral judgement.)

It’s only men who think of this as so very precious (frankly woman stand against prostitution just to keep their men at home) – but then again there is a definite demand. Go figure …

By: just saying

just saying — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:35:07 +0000

Hard Rain I am still laughing at your idea that Being a doctor and a prostitute are the same thing…

“…would you seriously condone its legal pracrice if your daughter or wife decided…”

Would you?

By: Hard Rain

Hard Rain — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:13:45 +0000

@Just saying, quotes from you:

“Have you seen the way kids are thinking these days…”

“…would you seriously condone its legal pracrice if your daughter or wife decided…”

So you weren’t using your personal morality as a reason to impose judgement on the rest of us then? You’re only concerned with your own family? Doesn’t seem like it from your own words…

By: Just saying

Just saying — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:51:47 +0000

That is such a naive retort hard rain, where did you learn to debate? Let me guess were you in the same class as Julius Malema?
To put doctors and prostitutes in the same professional category…LOL excuse me the image in my head makes me laugh!

“You should try to stop worrying yourself with other people’s love lives.”
I don’t think I once mention concern for other love lives except those of my own and family…

“And as for your “moral fibre” and the sake of your children, that’s for you to concern yourself with….”
Thank you for granting me an opinion!

By: Hard Rain

Hard Rain — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:56:51 +0000

@Just sayin

Mere decades ago it was “amoral” for Dr. Barnard to perform a heart-transplant. You definitely shouldn’t encourage your kids to become doctors! Sometimes they swap people’s organs to save lives! Heck, sometimes they make a misdiagnosis and kill patients! What a horrible profession! /sarcasm

As I mentioned earlier, people can have consensual sex for free so why should it suddenly be criminal with an exchange of money? People are gonna have sex, one way or another. You should try to stop worrying yourself with other people’s love lives.

And as for your “moral fibre” and the sake of your children, that’s for you to concern yourself with. Please stop trying to run everybody else’s lives. I promise, we are not all out to get you or your children. They’ll be responsible adults one day and can decide for themselves. Until then, the responsibility is yours and yours alone.

By: Benzol

Benzol — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:45:17 +0000

Re: taxation of the profession.
A pearl from the British judiciary springs to mind:
A professional lady had an ugly spot on her bum. Goes to her doctor who treats her infected spot but buggers up horribly.
A few months later, no repairs possible.
She takes doctor to court claiming that the result of his treatment negatively affected her income.
Judge listens carefully and ruled: awarding damages to the amount of ten times her last years income as reported to the tax man on her income statement.

By: Van Ber

Van Ber — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:10:34 +0000

Laws are set to police a society … but I have to ask if we can expect the people who are neglected by that society to stick to them (especially when the laws impose restrictions that limit their livelihood)? Yes we do – but why should they? And why specifically do we have such a problem with prostitution? Do we simply like laws that support our personal beliefs whether they’re pragmatic or not?

Unemployment is a simple fact of life.
So is prostitution (hey if there wasn’t a market then there would be no ‘goods’ to sell).
To brand an activity ‘immoral’ does not make it go away – instead it just sends it underground. What practical purpose does that serve anyone?

By: Just saying

Just saying — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:14:22 +0000

@Ivo Vegter “One’s moral views have nothing to do with the argument.
“There are excellent reasons for decriminalising or legalising sex work.”

I beg to differ, morality is very much apart of this debate…For the sake of keeping my children out of this ‘profession’ I am going to prech moral fibre as the very basis of my argument against it…

And while there are excellent reasons for legalising sex work…Have you seen the way kids are thinking these days…Look up ‘sexting’ and look at what social complications created by sites like mixit…
If we lose out moral fibre and say great, let prostitution become a goal for your child or mine as a legal and rewarding way to make money and earn a living…then I fear we are lost souls indeed.
It may sound like a practical idea for the sake of health cheks and cleaning up the industry, but would you seriously condone its legal pracrice if your daughter or wife decided “prostiution is legal, its clean now Ivor, so my new vocation will mean longer hours, dont wait up for me.”

By: Jonn

Jonn — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:04:59 +0000

@ MuAfrika

Whereas I agree completely that we should be fighting for better parenting and birth control we also have to be realistic. Do you know that many school girls have children of their own, some more than one.

Do you know that schoolgirls are paying younger boys for sex because these boys ostensibly do not have aids, so that they can get pregnant and claim the child grant. Some do a double whammy when they get paid for prostitution and also get the child grant when they deliberately get pregnant.

What in your opinion should be done here? Should the child grant be discontinued?