What are your views on prostitution? My personal belief is that it should be legalized and regulated. If there are decent brothels where women can work and men can "shop" there'd be less dark alley attacks and less disease, violence, etc. Your thoughts?

I don't have problems with legalizing prostitution in America. It's not my thing, but I am friends with quite a few escorts and 95% of them are kick ass people. It is obviously not the job for everybody, but if somebody actually wants to do it and knows the risks/benefits, etc. associated with it they should be able to do so.

I feel that the main reason prostitution is illegal in America is simply because we equate women having any opportunity to be in control, sexually or otherwise, is seen as 'killing traditional values'. It is normally hidden behind some lame ass speech about religion, but it tends to come down to women+sex=bad.

I think that if it were legalized and regulated, there'd be far fewer problems in multiple areas of law, from drugs to murders to missing people. Women wouldn't need to hide in the shadows and constantly worry about being arrested/hurt/killed. If a women chooses to engage in prostitution and is doing it because she WANTS to, not because she is being forced to by a pimp or sex trafficking, then she should be able to do it in a safe environment. We spend so much money cleaning up crimes that didn't have to happen, and could use those funds elsewhere if we just made an environment that people could go to if they choose to engage in those activities.

Oh, and for the record, I'm obviously talking about people over the age of 18.

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