[ATLian]

ATLian, tafadhali re-read your post. You've given logical (by your own admission) reasons to condemn prostitution, and the only argument you have for prostitution is 'prostitutes have a right to do anything.' If you honestly weigh out the pros and cons of prostitution (using your post above), do you still think there's rational and logical reasons to support it?

I watched a documentary of how difficult it is to climb the Everest, and how many people die every year doing it. Under all rational thinking, one should never attempt to climb the Everest. And if you do so, you should do it after some intensive training, using the best guides and equipment in the world, and scaling it from the south side. But does that mean we should ban those whom want to climb it from trying, or make a harsher ban on those solo climbers who try do it from the north side bila any oxygen from attempting it?

My point is just because there are very many logical reasons to condemn something, it doesn't mean that that something should be illegal under the law! I can give you a very long list of why smoking crack five times a day is not good for you. But that doesn't mean the government should ban someone who wants to do it from doing it. I just gave a long list of why prostitution can be dangerous for you. Again, that doesn't mean we should ban prostitution just because two consenting mature adults want to do it bila hurting anybody!

BTW my argument isn't ati 'prostitutes have a right to do anything.' It's that you, as an adult, should be allowed to sell yourself to another willing adult for sex, just as you can sell yourself as a laborer, an actor, a chef, etc.

Think aobut this - The chic the NY Governor was doing used to charge him $5,000 an hour. How many people make that kind of money? Do you know many women in this world would say "Yes" if given a deal where once a month they'd sleep with this guy for an hour and he'd give them $5,000? Why make that illegal? Why deny them that chance?

Also, in the prohibition era, booze was as illegal as drugs now are. Thousands were killed in the illegal booze trade, thousands died from drinking booze brewed by shady characters in unsanitary conditions, thousands were jailed, cops spent thousands of hours chasing booze runners instead of legit criminals, etc. Now booze is legal, it's brewed in good sanitary conditions, etc. Think about if the same thing would happen to the drug trade. I've heard that half the US jail population is there for drug related charges. The billions spent on the "drug war" is ridiculous. Just legalize the trade, which would immediately cut the insane profits off, and the drug industry would become like the booze industry.