Should sex work be fully decriminalized or partially decriminalized?

[Anonymous]

You can't fully criminalize sex work because the sex worker will go to jail and be punished by the police harshly, even if she is being abused. So, they partially decriminalize sex work, removing prostitution as a crime. The crime is no longer prostitution, it is human trafficking if a John is paying money for sex now. The John receives the full punishment, and the sex worker is set free.

This causes the Johns to become more cautious or stop paying for sex—sex trafficking. Charge on someone's record is not worth it; most guys with a stable job and income will only travel out of the country or to a place that is legal for it, which leaves fewer customers for the sex worker. A guy with a degree, business, and a good income is not going to risk losing everything he worked for to pay for sex unless he has some kind of addiction. This means only men who are degenerate and abusive will be seeing sex workers, which is undesirable for the sex workers.

Fully Decriminalized

Partially Decriminalized

Fully Criminalized

[jennifer_bloom]

I read the average prostitute enters the profession between 12-14 years old. Meaning they did not go into the industry willingly. Either their parents refused to buy them food and shelter and they needed money to survive, or they were kidnapped and forced into it for selfish gain by a rapist who exploited them for pleasure or money. Prostitution is not a fun career for people who are too lazy to work at Walmart. It's a form of torture and abuse and no different from domestic battery or violence.

[Tamera952]

ABSOLUTELY YES, ACROSS THE BOARD, 100%

[Zestyassmf1997]

I say fully decriminalize because those laws don’t do anything. And frankly, women wouldn’t have to hoe around for money if shit wasn’t so expensive and pay wasn’t so low.

[monorprise]

It already is decriminalized in certain states, the results are not as rosy as they make it out to be.

[katiesmuff]

I think that if it is consensual sex between adults it should be totally legal. If it turns out the girl is being forced to perform sex acts through a pimp then go after the pimp, girl has the option to go free and even if she wants to charge for sex let it be legal.

The better option would be state operated sex houses where all the girls are tested and treated for STDs should any show up.

[Snakeyes7]

If it ever becomes "real work," I hope they are ready for what that entails.

[Anonymous]

Everyone does what they want anyway, they might as well make it legal.

[AngryCarl]

That's like charging the guy buying a burger for animal cruelty.

[Anonymous]

It should be legalized actually

[Asker]

Ideally, but that will never happen. But there is too much money the government would lose if it was legalized. There are divorce lawyers, dating apps, dating agencies, professional match makers, therapist, life coaches, self-help gurus, dating gurus, etc that would lose a lot of money if it was legalized.

Amsterdam legalized it a while back, and they found that rape went down. If rape goes down in America less women would go to therapy because they did not feel paranoid about a guy hiding in the bush preparing to cause them harm because those guys had a place they can go to. The divorce and family lawyers who get paid $200 an hour to destroy marriages and families would lose money because the husband can keep his meetings with his hook secret. No guy would waste their money on Andrew Tate courses on how to get women or money.

A large number of men would just go ghost and work a basic job and not pursue marriage or women. I do agree it should be legalized, but unfortunately, there is too much money in porn and self-help and other similar markets for them to just allow it to be legalized.

[Opinion Owner]

As usual, it’s all about money that the government will lose instead of actually helping people