As an Australian, it seems like a great deal of the problems with human trafficking surface from the criminalisation of prostitution.
Pimps hold far less power when the prostitutes have legal recourse and police on their side.
Pimps hold far less power when the prostitutes have legal recourse and police on their side.
Similar reason why allowing everyone firearms works in Scandinavian countries but is an issue in the US
Finland has a very high number of (hunting) weapons. It is significantly harder to get a pistol or a semi-automatic weapon.
Switzerland, I think, allows semi-automatic firearms for almost everybody, and has more liberal gun laws in general.
Backpage is about children who were kidnapped, drugged, and sold to be raped being advertised on Backpage. This happened with the knowledge, and support, of Backpage staff, including the owners of the company.
Even if we legalise prostitution between consenting adults who have the freedom to make the choice, we're never ever going to say it's legal to kidnap a child, drug her, and sell her to be raped.
Please read this. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
Why isn't there any app where you can just pay to have guaranteed safe sex in a government audited establishments without any drama?
Right now, many play a game of courting a potential mate. Sometimes, feelings are hurt due to unpredictable nature of this game. It results in manipulation, lies and faking. It might make people who repeatedly fail to get any sex, a criminal.
When was the last time your date showed up without makeup? This reeks dishonesty, ambush and manipulation.
Efficiency of this market can cure many issues like sexual harassment, end scam market of pickup artist and many other crimes of passion.
Chasing other sex should be outlawed unless they've subscribed to the app and the application for sex goes through the government devised route.
If I've unsubscribed then no one should offer me drinks for the purpose of getting sex. This is good for everyone's sanity.
Why not just have an app and bet sums of money there, then everyone will be motivated to acquire more money instead of playing other games.
Blame is on society for making the act of paying for sex through sweat/blood a stigma.
Without sex we would have gone extinct by now and yet sex is not considered as the primary need of humans.
I know a lot tech workers who were promised sex in return of favours - training, jobs, finanical help using signals and later got sexual harassment charges when they successfully delivered.
Humans are seflish. They want something in return of something.
I'm not sure if it's too linked with pair bonding to be its own thing, but that's certainly something to consider.
Still very much in the camp of legalization myself. If only because I can't fathom why the State gives itself the mandate to ban the exchange of this particular service in principle.
that's exactly what religious conservatives of all sorts say when they want to prosecute extramarital sex
Is the even a country with the likes of such a "sex market"? Is it worse or better than others?
If you're not doing this bit in a standup routine, you should be. "It's not cheating honey! It's just the commodification of sex!"
Decriminalizing prostitution and criminalizing the person doing the "buying" in public is the maximum that is viable without encouraging abuse.
Pretending it isn't a partisan issue is silly.
The stats to which you refer don't support that dismissal.
In that survey, 50% of Dems supported legalisation/decriminalisation (which you'll notice is not quite a majority, or is a narrow one if you ignore the undecideds) and 34% of Republicans supported it.
So it's a 16 percentage point difference. Yes there's more support among Democrats, but not so much so that you can dismiss it as a partisan issue.
Anecdotally, here in Australia, someone I know very well works in a government policy role administering sex work, and some of the most strident campaigning in favour of re-criminalisation comes from the left. In this state it was a conservative government that legalised it in the early 90s, in the first year they came to power after 10 years of social-democratic government. There's no campaign from the conservative side to re-criminalise it here.