| I must say that the practice of prostitution has been | | | | assault are illegal. It it happens that helping the |
| given a very bad name. Yet, I see it everywhere. | | | | innocent escape an evil fate is pure, it has nothing to |
| Men who pay for sex are simply either pre-occupied | | | | do with the law. It is legal to help innocent people |
| or too lazy. If they wanted to save some cash, they | | | | because it eliminates misery and suffering. So, when |
| could simply spend 15 minutes everyday grooming | | | | we decide to judge something like prostitution, and if |
| themselves, and then hitting up the clubs every night. | | | | it weighs out to being impure, why should this even |
| Sure sure, they would be spending about $20 to $40 | | | | aid in our decision? After all, prostitution, much like |
| on drinks and maybe three or four hours of hitting on | | | | the sex act alone, creates happiness and pleasure for |
| a girl, but they would still get sex. And, honestly, | | | | many. It is a mutually benefiting relationship. That is |
| what is the difference between simply paying a | | | | why it must be legalized.There are still some other |
| woman to have sex, and looking nice and buying | | | | considerations to think about. For example, what |
| them drinks to have sex? I can extend this analogy | | | | about those prostitutes who are not willingly |
| even further. What if someone decides, in fact, to | | | | prostitutes? What of those prostitutes who engage |
| spend several hours every day or week in courtship, | | | | in the practice for the sake of obtaining food and not |
| for weeks or months, until marriage? In such a case, | | | | for the sake of choosing it as a profession? Some |
| they would have achieved the required social steps | | | | will argue, very rightly too, that prostitution allows |
| for sex. In that case, they are still just giving in a | | | | people to sell their bodies, even though the practice |
| certain amount of time and effort to satisfy their | | | | scars their mind. I admit, this is very true. Yet, it |
| sexual libido. If a man spends hours laboring at his | | | | cannot be denied that every profession contains |
| profession, is paid, and then spends this money on a | | | | people who are scarred by their labor. Consider the |
| prostitute, how does this differ from a man spending | | | | Mexican laborers, whose rights are violated daily as |
| hours hitting on a woman and then her finally | | | | they are forced to work 14 hours a day. Consider |
| accepting the sexual proposal? I cannot find one | | | | the American laborer who lives in a closet and works |
| difference in any of these circumstances that would | | | | 10 hours a day so he can have nothing. The decades |
| make prostitution immoral or unethical.Yes, there is | | | | and decades of their lives spent living in such poverty |
| the difference that in one of these cases, money is | | | | and misery, inflicted on the lives of hundreds of |
| specifically offered for the action of sex. I am not | | | | millions, if not billions, of people. There is no doubt |
| denying this at all. The only thing I am denying is that | | | | that professions all over the world have allowed for |
| the exchange of money for sex matters. Whether | | | | so much misery, so much pain, so much cruelty. They |
| sex was paid for or whether it was obtained through | | | | exist solely because of the exploitive, oppressive |
| that clever game of sexual selection and competition, | | | | relationships that are allowed to flourish in society. |
| it is all irrelevant. Just because sex was paid for in | | | | The problem is not prostitution. The problem is the |
| one instance, I do not think that it ought to be | | | | poverty of a Capitalist economy. If the scarring of |
| outlawed or even condemned. As humane and | | | | prostitution, or any other profession, is to be |
| rational men, the source of our ethical imperatives | | | | eliminated, we need Socialism on our law books. It is |
| comes from one idea. It is the idea that our actions | | | | the only savior of the proletariat.Before ending, there |
| improve, better, and aid the lives of those around us. | | | | is one other matter that ought to be discussed. It is |
| This can be done in a number of ways. If our actions | | | | the matter of the rights of women, of Feminism, of |
| can be judged as increasing the pleasure of others, | | | | sexism versus sexuality. Feminists will argue that |
| and decreasing the misery of others, then it ought to | | | | prostitution will only make women seem more like |
| be said that our actions are ethical, that they have | | | | objects and less like individuals with interests and |
| done some good, that they have decreased misery | | | | emotions. First, there is a double standard. There are |
| and increased happines. With this ethical ideal | | | | gigolos, or male prostitutes, and one might inquire |
| understood, there can be no argument against | | | | how this impacts the image that women have of |
| prostitution. The system of buying and selling sex has | | | | men. Some might agree, and believe that both |
| been and will continue to be a means of mutual | | | | institutions should be abolished. Yet, such an action |
| satisfaction: the cash for the prostitute, and the | | | | would be too hasty and too reckless. Sex, whether |
| pleasure for the customer.In all honesty, I believe the | | | | paid for or not, is usually about satisfying an urge. A |
| greatest amount of opposition to prostitution that | | | | Feminist might as well say that men and women |
| comes today is simply an animosity against the sex | | | | shouldn't have sex with each other at all, to prevent |
| act in general. Those same individuals who oppose | | | | them from having sexual thoughts about each other, |
| prostitution probably support the law of statutory | | | | or from developing ideas about the other gender. No |
| rape. They believed that if a consenting 18 year old | | | | doubt, everyone will disagree with such a social plan. |
| had sex with a consenting 17 year old, that it was a | | | | Eliminating sex will perhaps cause the greatest misery |
| tragic act, that it permanently scarred the 17 year old | | | | in society. And, the fact that nobody wants to |
| and that the heart of the 18 year old was stone cold. | | | | eliminate sex, is fair and good evidence that the spirit |
| The same people who oppose legalizing prostitution | | | | of Puritanism is slowly but surely dying. Whether or |
| also oppose distribution of contraceptive devices, | | | | not prostitution will put a prejudice in the mind of |
| arguing that "if sex is safe, then more sex will be | | | | men is not something that can be battled by |
| committed." These people would rather that disease | | | | prohibiting prostitution, but only by a real and honest |
| infest and destroy the bodies of young people than | | | | education given to all people, so that they can |
| allow them to take happiness in the warmth of each | | | | appreciate the relationships they have with each |
| others' bodies. The puritanical spirit is still among our | | | | other.If society were to accept prostitution as a valid |
| society, unfortunately, and it is the people who are | | | | form of pleasure, entertainment, and employment, |
| paying for it. Venereal disease and unwanted | | | | then the ills commonly associated with it would |
| pregnancy effects all ages, all races. By doing all that | | | | become nonexistent. The disease that is spread |
| we can to eliminate these social ills, we are elevating | | | | through unprotected sex would become extremely |
| the spirit of humanity, the creed of kinship, the bond | | | | limited and restricted. With regulatory law, these sex |
| that may be called our experience together.Among | | | | workers would be required to have protected sex. |
| the primary arguments of those who oppose | | | | And, with safe sex, those who purchased the |
| prostitution, there is the purity argument. It is not a | | | | services of these employees would be safe. There is |
| question of the disease spread by illegal prostitutes, | | | | no doubt that prostitution should be legalized. For |
| or of the criminal element associated with it, but | | | | some time, casual sex without commitment was a |
| rather, it is a matter of purity. By allowing people to | | | | matter of law. It was illegal. But today, we are smart |
| exchange sex for cash, we are allowing people to | | | | enough to understand and believe that what two |
| engage in impure acts, which are destructive towards | | | | consenting people do behind closed doors is their |
| themselves. My response to this is simple: irrelevant. | | | | business and their business only. It is not a crime to |
| It is irrelevant whether an action is judged to be pure | | | | make awkward artwork or read obscure literature, |
| or impure. Personally, I believe that allowing children | | | | but for a long time it was illegal, punished with death |
| to live in poverty, allowing armies of unemployed to | | | | and torture. Yet as time has worn on, we have |
| starve, and restricting the flow of information is | | | | become more humane, more rational, more |
| impure. It is impure to build palaces when there are | | | | passionate about the rights of the people and the |
| still men and women without homes. If it was impure | | | | liberties of the individual. It is no longer a crime to |
| to feed the poor and homeless, should we make it | | | | read banned books, it is no longer a crime to revel in |
| illegal? If it was pure to murder and rape, should we | | | | obscure artworks, it is no longer a crime to have |
| make it legal? Of course not. The terms "pure" and | | | | consensual sex. Yet... It is still a matter of law when it |
| "impure" are meaningless. If conservatives are simply | | | | comes to exchanging sex for cash. As the spirit of |
| going to apply it without any purpose, then it is with | | | | progress is guided by the flame of reason, we must |
| complete disregard for morality and the goodness of | | | | change these laws.w Life,Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) |
| mankind.A real question that I would like to ask these | | | | has been writing essays and poetry on social issues |
| conservative thinkers is this: by what standard can | | | | which have caught his attention for several years. His |
| you define anything as pure or impure? What is the | | | | website provides a complete list of all of these |
| scale? And, once this is decided, how is it relevant to | | | | writings. His life experience includes homelessness, |
| anything? If it happens that murder is impure, that | | | | squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high |
| holds no relevance over whether it is legal or illegal. | | | | school, getting expelled from college for "subversive |
| Murder is illegal because it causes suffering and | | | | activities," and a myriad of other revolutionary |
| misery, and so is the same reason why rape or | | | | actions. |