[Yogi]

PluggyRug wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

They should clean it up, take it away from residential areas.

The ladies should get clean needles and any support we can give them.

These women are victims.

The same losers will always pay for sex but driving it underground just makes it more likely that another Pickton will pounce.

I think the courts have it right in Ontario and the SCC should try and better protect these unfortunate women.

Agreed. Bring it into the open and regulate.

I'm sure McGuinty will find some way to tax the trade, HST on johnny the john.[/quote]


Probably. They could call it The Pole Tax!

[Gunnair]

Boooo hissssssssssssssssssssss....

[ShepherdsDog]

legalizing the sex trade won't eliminate the junky whores and their pimps. They'll still be there selling their bodies and diseases to feed their habits, and the pimps will be there to prey on them.

[Dragom]

True legalizing Alcohol didn't get rid of the moonshine industry.

Wait, moonshine still happens but as a vibrant industry full of massive profits it's dead.

[Dragom]

Thanos wrote:

Dragom wrote:

Is it really more dangerous then driving cab? Is it really more degrading then fast food?

How can I take this seriously? These aren't the sort of comparisons any adult making a rational argument would even consider making.

When I couldn't find a job right out of highschool I wasn't alone.

Lots of people my age had that same problem and so a lot of girls, as soon as they turned 18 applied for jobs as escorts.

edited by mod.

I'm not saying that rape and battery aren't constant risks and I'm not saying it isn't soul crushing. But then rape and battery are constant risks to female cab drivers and is anything more symbolic of your demolished dreams as when you can't get the smell of french fry oil out of your hair?

And I think your understanding of prostitution is skewed.

The girls on the corner? If they could show up at showered, dressed and coherent enough to perform a fiscal transaction at 6 PM on a Friday night, they wouldn't be on the corner.

They'd be sitting in an agency waiting room playing "stab each other in the back socially" with co-workers and waiting for the phone to ring.

No standing in the rain or giving blow jobs in urine soaked alleyways involved. Excessive drug use purely optional but required if you want to fit in, just like construction.

[Yogi]

Dragom wrote:

Thanos wrote:

Dragom wrote:

Is it really more dangerous then driving cab? Is it really more degrading then fast food?

How can I take this seriously? These aren't the sort of comparisons any adult making a rational argument would even consider making.

When I couldn't find a job right out of highschool I wasn't alone.

Lots of people my age had that same problem and so a lot of girls, as soon as they turned 18 applied for jobs as escorts.

edited by mod.

I'm not saying that rape and battery aren't constant risks and I'm not saying it isn't soul crushing. But then rape and battery are constant risks to female cab drivers and is anything more symbolic of your demolished dreams as when you can't get the smell of french fry oil out of your hair?

And I think your understanding of prostitution is skewed.

The girls on the corner? If they could show up at showered, dressed and coherent enough to perform a fiscal transaction at 6 PM on a Friday night, they wouldn't be on the corner.

They'd be sitting in an agency waiting room playing "stab each other in the back socially" with co-workers and waiting for the phone to ring.

No standing in the rain or giving blow jobs in urine soaked alleyways involved. Excessive drug use purely optional but required if you want to fit in, just like construction.

and I think your understanding of the construction trades is skewed!

[herbie]

What's legalizing it got to do with addicts and pimps? They're already criminals.
Legalizing it would mean we could stop pretending someone who fucks their way thru college or into a $750,000 house in Toronto or Vancouver is a criminal.

[Dragom]

Yogi wrote:

and I think your understanding of the construction trades is skewed!

What? Your saying I don't know everything about a vast industry from a hand full of encounters with binge drinking coke addicts with hard hats?

Thats impossible!

[ASLplease]

I read an article in Alberta Business Magazine about the prostitution industry in Alberta, it has basically moved off the streets into 'massage parlors'.