to think that truely feminist stance on prostitution, is to support legalisation?

[StuckInTheMiddleWithYou]

I recently moved to an inner city area.

There is a known brothel here and a homeless shelter.

I have seen some very sad, desperate sights walking past our home lately.

I wouldn't want any child of mine involved in this trade, however this does strike as something which desperately needs regulating - for the sake of the women, girls and boys involved.

Prohibition has failed miserably.

AIBU?

*to, even

I have no problemn with any of the men who paid me for sex. At that time I offered them a service I needed money for.

I am not being at all hypocritical in any way.

I also chose to continue to take Heroin.

I never try to "limit" anyones choices like have said you would like to.

"Yes ciggarettes are less dangerous than heroin as you cannot die from a single hit of nicotine." - from Ladyanon - are you aware of the number of deaths per year from heroin overdoses?....miniscule, not a teen-weeny blip, compared with death from tobacco products.

I really can't imagine what the arguments were in parliament when they were preparing this bill. How do you argue that punters should not be criminalised?

Pan yes I am aware of that. However its rare to die from one session of smoking is it not?

Anyway how can 1/2 of the problem be legalised (that it is already legal seems to escape many people) and the other half criminalised.

So it would be legal to solicit (i.e ask someone if they want to pay you for sex) but illegal to say yes?

We were talking about the risk - not the enormity of the problem.....

Sounds about right, Saltatrix.

I'm hoping for a better argument then "but it's not faaair" btw.

Ladyanon - have reread posts. They are both v. short and uncomplicated, and still utterly wrong. I don't see how I can misinterpret these v. short statements.

If women want to be prostitutes and sell sex, then surely criminalising the clients will stop the women from carrying out what they want to do. So in effect, it is stopping the women from doing what they want.

Then imagine they did that for drugs then many of the people on the streets selling are normally destitute background poor young adults sometimes teens.

Sure the ones profiting are the fat cats but they don't actually sell directly themselves especially street sells.

That what some women who've been in prostitution say, ditanny. Not all of them.

Most in this country are not trafficked/sold into prostitution.

And it is already illegal for punters to pay such people who are for sex.

I am for it dittany and I was one.

I am not trying to change anyones mind I am just trying to explain the reality of what it is like to live with an addiction or within the sex trade, and I also know the frustration of working with these people too.

I have my own opinions, I am not wrong I am just different to some of you.

And sometimes it is ok to pay for sex actually.

....What about women who pay for sex dittany? What would you do about them?

OldLadyKnowsNothing - "Don't you know that gangsterism in the US was largely kick-started and effectively funded by the Prohibition on booze?"

Gangs were already a criminal force in the USA half a century before prohibition, which merely gave them a new area to move into.

ditanny, I very much want people to know the reality of prostitution. It's just that there's more than one kind of reality.

vesuvia, and an extremely profitable one. Prohibition didn't do away with booze, though, did it?

Dittany I have faced all my demons and now run a centre for young people in crisis.

I am in denial about nothing, I am at peace with most things in my life esp my past. Do not assume anything about me or try to anaylise me.

And that is complete bollocks - woman who pay for sex are not non existent.

You come across like you hate men.