oh for the millionth time i never said it would increase
holy crap man, read my posts.
i said it wouldn't do anything to make it decrease. One of the arguments that i see so often is if the government controls it, then it would decrease the spread of STI's, this simply isn't true. Prostitutes now can use condoms or not, just the same as they would if they were in a licensed whorehouse, the only difference is they would have to take a series of tests that would only catch an STI after they did, and more then likely had passed it on to several people. The other thing about this, is now that she's a professional and can operate without fear of legal action, she can have sex with more clients an evening then if she would have to take measures to ensure she wasn't being tricked by authorities.
and don't call it safe sex, i know you're smarter then that. It's safer sure, but nowhere near safe.
And i never argued for the general public. I said for people that take tests, pass background checks, and get approval after waiting months for it.... WHICH IS WHAT WE DO RIGHT NOW. so we're fine. and yes, handguns should definatly be legal since high powered hunting rifles are. I don't see any need for automatic weapons or the like, which i NEVER argued for, but shotungs, rifles, and handguns? Sure. Once again, tools, use then properly and there's no problem, use them improperly and suffer the consequences.
Oh, and my point about Beardy's post definatly makes sense. The one paragraph i quoted alone clearly shows that morality bias you're so upset about, not to mention the fact that they clearly only quote stats in their favor, saying prostitution has done what could easily be accomplished by education in 3rd world countries. Want to know what happened in the Netherlands and Australia?
Legalization was supposed to get prostituted women off the street. Many women don't want to register and undergo health checks, as required by law in certain countries legalizing prostitution, so legalization often drives them into street prostitution. And many women choose street prostitution because they want to avoid being controlled and exploited by the new sex "businessmen."
In the Netherlands, women in prostitution point out that legalization or decriminalization of the sex industry cannot erase the stigma of prostitution but, instead, makes women more vulnerable to abuse because they must register and lose anonymity. Thus, the majority of women in prostitution still choose to operate illegally and underground. Members of Parliament who originally supported the legalization of brothels on the grounds that this would liberate women are now seeing that legalization actually reinforces the oppression of women (Daley, 2001: A1).
The argument that legalization was supposed to take the criminal elements out of sex businesses by strict regulation of the industry has failed. The real growth in prostitution in Australia since legalization took effect has been in the illegal sector. Since the onset of legalization in Victoria, brothels have tripled in number and expanded in size - the vast majority having no licenses but advertising and operating with impunity (Sullivan and Jeffreys: 2001).
In New South Wales, brothels were decriminalized in 1995. In 1999, the numbers of brothels in Sydney had increased exponentially to 400-500. The vast majority have no license to operate. To end endemic police corruption, control of illegal prostitution was taken out of the hands of the police and placed in the hands of local councils and planning regulators. The council has neither the money nor the personnel to put investigators into brothels to flush out and prosecute illegal operators.
As you can clearly see, if illegal prostitution increases the rate of infection, and making prostitution legal increases illegal prostitution, then what do you have? an increase in infection.
There are NO benefits of legalization, in fact, all it can do is cause society harm, hense why it is illegal, not some moral code. While it's true i did originally mention that i PERSONALLY felt prostitution is immoral, that's not what the law rests on, nor what my argument does.